Driftwood Beach Bar Reviews Summary

Location

Pros:

• "The location was great. Right on the beach."
• "This restaurant was in the perfect position facing out to see, you were right on the beach, great spot."
• "Excellent beach cafe."
• "The place is superb right on the beach with an enviable view."
• "Perfectly located, right on the beach."
• "Such a beautiful setting right in the beach."
• "The location is lovely, looking out to the sea."

Cons:

• "This could be a great place with a great location, but it's very disappointing..."
• "The look and location of the place is pretty awesome!"
• "Great location and views."
• "Lovely location for a bar with potential to be an amazing little place, downside is it's stupidly overpriced!"
• "Good situation by the beach."
• "On the sea front."
• "Beautiful location right on the beach front."

Service

Pros:

• "The lad behind the bar was apologetic but powerless."
• "Will now be a regular visit when we go back to the Isle of Wight."
• "Cocktails, good choice of beers."
• "Thank you for such a wonderful meal and service from your staff :)"
• "The staff were very friendly and worked extremely hard."
• "Staff were friendly lovely atmosphere."
• "Always friendly staff."

Cons:

• "The staff are rude, unhelpful and argumentative."
• "The staff was rude, refused to let me talk to the manager and make a formal complaint about the service."
• "The staff verbally abused my family, were racist to a family sitting near us too."
• "The person in charge was very ignorant, but the waitress that served us was very polite."
• "Staff were very inexperienced with zero customer service training."
• "Staff were rude and did not care about customer service, ordered drinks and was left waiting for them to be made at the bar for 10 minutes."
• "The staff member was rude when she replied to my question about how long will the food be."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "We had breakfast and dinner there with both meeting what it said on the menu."
• "Food was average but it did the job and the 4 kids enjoyed their kids meals."
• "Mussels were massive and tasty best I’ve had in the UK."
• "Absolutely gorgeous views and if you stick to regular pub food selections you will be in good hands."
• "Food fab."
• "Probably the best burgers we've had anywhere."
• "Food was fantastic."

Cons:

• "Been going to the driftwood for 6years always brilliant but food tonight was not good."
• "We don't recommend this place for food."
• "The food was ok but certainly not worth the price."
• "The food has a really poor quality and is definitely overpriced."
• "Food very overpriced, sardines were microwaved and with old new potatoes served up."
• "The food was great and definitely worth the wait."
• "The food was poor and the chilli con carne was possibly the worst I've ever had."

Hygiene

Pros:

• "The place was clean and tidy and up together has a nice rustic wood feel as the name suggests."

Cons:

• "The inside restaurant was filthy and stunk. The kitchen looked like it had different foods all over the counter. Hygiene was terrible. Glasses were dirty and tables sticky."
• "Terrible and dirty place, menu cards sticky, tables dirty and full of food under them, employees with a lack of interest."
• "No clean kitchen the floor was so dirty and there was walking on dirty floor."
• "The place is dirty."
• "Dirty tables, and uninterested staff."
• "The place was not clean at all."
• "The whole place needs a good clean, staff walked past food and cutlery on the floor repeatedly."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Very reasonable pricing for the quality & quantity of the food."
• "Great location and very helpful staff but you do pay that bit more for the location."
• "Menu choice is great, average pricing to be honest looking at about £15/£20 pp for a main dish."

Cons:

• "This place is to be avoided."
• "The owners are ripping off innocent tourists."
• "very expensive food and drinks."
• "Overpriced, expensive overcooked food."
• "The prices are absolutely extortionate but the quality of the food was awful."
• "Lovely location for a bar with potential to be an amazing little place, downside is it's stupidly overpriced!"
• "Very overpriced for what you get."