The Eight Bells Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food is always good as a minimum. But mostly excellent. Never had a bad meal."
• "Best restaurant on Dover, tons of options, delicious food and great prices."
• "Breakfast only visit, I had the large breakfast, it was huge, eggs were runny, bread for toast was tasty, unlimited tea and coffee."
• "Overall the food was very tasty but a little cold, surprising as they really weren't busy."
• "The Pizza I ordered was nice and delivered quickly."
• "Fantastic food, really good prices for food and drinks."
• "Food is always good, and plenty of it and it's good value for money."

Cons:

• "Soup didn't come with bread had to ask for it, was listed as with being with white bloomer, was brought a single slice of stale hovis type bread."
• "The last time we ate there, the food was awful."
• "asked for a rare steak was giving well done took 20 mins for my steak to come back out."
• "Without a doubt the worse spoons breakfast wrap I’ve ever.. leaving it a mere ok rather than delicious."
• "Absolutely horrendous, a typical weather spoons, terrible meals for a family of 6, overcooked food, cold, nasty, all of the family didn’t eat hardly any of the meals."
• "The fish I think, died of old age it was tasteless and very dry..and well over cooked."
• "Steak wed together than old boots. Generally very low average food."

Service

Pros:

• "I was served real ale promptly. As well as the standard ales there were two interesting guest ales at a very low price of £2.10 per pint."
• "Really friendly staff who were also very quick with service."
• "Staff were very polite and helpful."
• "Great place if you want table service then just download the app and pay at your table."
• "Staff very quick with service, once we negotiated the app and placed our order and they all were wearing face coverings."
• "Staff were friendly, would go back."
• "They were very quick, efficient and very friendly. They were also very helpful and attentive."

Cons:

• "Had to wait a while to be served."
• "Shambles. Stood at bar for 10 mins just got ignored and everyone else got served around me not even busy at the time."
• "The staff more interested in talking to each other than speaking to the customer."
• "Can be very busy and at times not enough bar staff."
• "The toilets in a very unclean state and no toilet rolls in the cubicals."
• "Not happy with the customer service at all. Waitress basically threw the food at us."
• "Asked her to take a plate away and she just walked off. RUDE!"

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "The pub was clean and the staff were very friendly."
• "This is a standard Wetherspoons, you know what you'll get and they do it well. Generally clean and tidy, attentive staff and it was a pleasant meal and drink."
• "Nice and clean staff helpful food was good."

Cons:

• "Our booth was not very clean."
• "Tables were not cleaned and there was grease over the seats so hadn't they hadn't been wiped down."
• "I found the doors and tables sticky."
• "The tables were very sticky and the pub in general could have done with a good clean."
• "Called in whilst waiting to collect our daughter from nearby, due to the time cafés in the area were closing. It wouldn't be my first choice to partake in refreshments, the place was filthy."
• "A very sad, run-down dirty weatherspoons."
• "Absolutely disgusting behaviour from the manager arguing with my partner."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "A very bright noisy pub populated by vest wearing clients. But as with most Wetherspoons the food was more than acceptable at a great price."
• "Great pub for starting the night with as the drinks are cheap and varied."
• "Great atmosphere. Will definitely visit again when I'm in the area."
• "The pub had a great atmosphere and the staff were great."
• "Classic big and buzzing pub filled with locals and tourists alike ages 8 to 80."
• "Well managed with a pleasant atmosphere."
• "Staff great. Beer great. Atmosphere great."

Cons:

• "One of the grimmer Spoons in the empire."
• "The atmosphere left a lot to be desired."
• "It is definitely not family friendly. There were a number of people too drunk to walk properly at 8:30 in the evening."
• "The lack of music in these places always makes for a strange atmosphere, which is just a wall of sound and conversations, and due to the calibre of clientele many of them are explicit."
• "A rather dark gloomy pub with lots of dark wooden walls."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "breakfast deals are really cheap compared with the rest of the menu, totally worthy."
• "Visited here and had a shared meal for £14 for 2 people which I believe is great value for the food we had."
• "Great prices for the food! Got the two burger meals which comes with either a soft drink or a beer, really great value!"
• "For the price I paid for my beer I was a happy customer!"
• "Value for money, especially in the cost of living crisis, is essential and you simply cannot go wrong here."
• "Good old pub grub at a sensible price."
• "That's what the real pub need to be! Fantastic tasty food, great number of dishes and extremely good prices."

Cons:

• "Very poor value for money. I ordered scampi, chips n mushy peas and got only 8 pieces of scampi, whereas I used to get 10/11."
• "No pros were mentioned regarding pet-friendly policy."
• "No pros were mentioned regarding Covid measures."
• "The decibel levels got to 87 in the back section."
• "Ignorant staff too young to handle the customers who are volatile or starting arguments."
• "Unfortunately the wine tasted awful."
• "Food was ok although only warm and the clientele of drunks and kids wasn't a good atmosphere."