Harvester Navigation Inn Enfield Reviews Summary

Category: Family restaurant

Address: 4 Wharf Rd, Ponders End, Enfield EN3 4XX, United Kingdom

Phone: +442088047788

Rating: 4.0
based on 410 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Good food well presented totally let down by a beautiful building let go to rack and ruin."
  • "Great food. Fast service."
  • "The children loved the ice cream 🍨 they also ate most of their meal which is unusual as they normally leave most of it."
  • "Great food, great service and at a phenomenal value."
  • "All the food ordered was as expected."
  • "All the food was great including the steak, chicken and the Mac and cheese."
  • "The food was nice and well cooked to be fair."

Cons:

  • "We waited 1 and half hours for our food and when it finally turned up it was disgusting cold chips burnt burger, inedible ribs over cooked chicken burnt sausages."
  • "I ordered the ribs which is slightly dry but the sweet potatoes fries were really nice."
  • "The steaks were almost inedible. Tough as shoe leather, even hard to cut with a steak knife."
  • "Food was decent but a lot of the food we ordered was substituted as they'd run out of 1/4 and 1/2 chickens."
  • "The food was absolutely abysmal."
  • "The ribs were not to my liking a bit bland."
  • "Food was awful not as nice as it was a few years ago."

Service

Pros:

  • "Fantastic customer service at resolving the PCN quickly, many thanks to management for this!"
  • "Staff were friendly as always."
  • "Our waiters Zack and Clinton were fantastic."
  • "Our server Sal was absolutely amazing, so friendly and attentive."
  • "Service from out waiter was fantastic too."
  • "Service is alway excellent even when they are busy."
  • "The staff are all good especially 2 of them the boy with dark hair and I think the girls name is Riana. Very helpful and knowledgeable."

Cons:

  • "Plenty of staff on but all running around like headless chickens."
  • "The so called manager was very rude when we made a complaint regarding the very slow service."
  • "However when it came to food, the service was terribly slow and the food appalling."
  • "The scruffy teenage waiting staff leave a lot to be desired, chewing gum whilst taking orders and not noting down orders resulting in the wrong food being brought out."
  • "Service took too long waited over 20mins just to place an order waited another 30mins to order dessert."
  • "Staff member was a little lost and got the order a little wrong."
  • "Waited 45minutes for food, bearing in mind it was lunch time & not that busy!"

Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "The seating area is clean, and the toilets are clean."
  • "Very clean. We moved tables and I noticed they cleaned the table we had left even though we’d barely sat there."
  • "The place was extremely clean."
  • "Place is open, very clean and staff are so attentive."
  • "The place was clean and tidy."
  • "All the staff looked spotless and restaurant clean."
  • "Had a fantastic experience post the second lockdown. Very clean."

Cons:

  • "Toilets are pretty bad, too."
  • "Toilets were dirty and looking at other points around the restaurant you could see it's not very clean."
  • "The chairs haven't been cleaned in god knows how long and all we're covered in rotting crumbs."
  • "The restaurant floor... was a mess, slippery and grimey."
  • "The toilets looked like the ghetto from the graffiti all over the walls and urine over the floor."
  • "The mens toilets are disgusting. Mould growing, plaster falling off."
  • "The whole restaurant was dirty the tables where sticky, there was cobwebs and dust everywhere."

Location

Pros:

  • "This Harvester branch is located in a nice quiet area which is only surrounded by a field in which you see cows grazing."
  • "It’s a great canalside location."
  • "Love it here... love that its by the river as well all tucked away."
  • "A beautiful venue in the middle of no where."
  • "A hidden gem. Although of the beaten track. This is a warm and friendly eatery."

Cons:

  • "Location difficult to find in something like an industrial state."
  • "Parking was an issue - I got a PCN for parking there as I wasn’t told I needed to register my no. plate inside."
  • "It's at the end of a strange run down industrial road."
  • "Be aware the location is not the best; on the borders of Chingford and Edmonton."
  • "Access is very difficult. Width and height barriers along with poor location."

Ambiance

Pros:

  • "The venue is nice and spacious and has a relaxed and comfortable vibe."
  • "The place looks cosy but clean."
  • "However, we will definitely return as everything else, including the atmosphere is really nice!"
  • "The inside of the restaurant is beautiful."
  • "The place was light and airy."

Cons:

  • "The whole score would have higher if not for the family sitting behind us who had children running around. Extremely badly behaved."
  • "Children were running about screaming all very dangerous."
  • "However, the decor leaves a lot to be desired. It's old, shabby and in places, quite vile."
  • "The balcony was completely covered in smashed glass absolutely everywhere."
  • "Tired decoration."

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