Yew Tree Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Birmingham

This place used to be amazing and used to be our local. But on our last visit today we were utterly disappointed. We ordered about £70 worth of food which we have ordered many times before. The butter chicken portion size was like a children’s size full of sauce and about 4 pieces of chicken. We ordered 3 portions of chilli chips which arrived 15 mins after our other food arrived. Bonus! It arrived hot…… but raw. The chips were still hard and under cooked and tasted like they were a few days old. The Yew Tree Family Grill was also a let down. The grill didn’t come sizzling and the onions were under cooked. The amount of meat on the grill for £19.50 was disappointing including 2 small sorry looking lamb chops and 4 half coated prawns . No salad was given and for 6 people only one portion of small sauces. I don’t think I will be retuning again unless I was kidnapped, slapped and...

EARLY EVENING VISIT , CAN'T SAY THE SMELL IS INVITING AS YOU ENTER. ULTIMATELY IT'S A PUB GUESS THE SMELL OF URINE LINGERING AT THE ENTRANCE & BAR IS NORMAL FOR SOME BUT FOR ME IT PUTS QUESTIONS ABOUT HYGIENE IN MY BRAIN FROM THE GET GO... PLACED ORDER AT THE KITCHEN HATCH NO TABLE SERVICE, LIMITED THE ORDER TO A PANEER CURRY, NAAN,CHIPS & PRAWN BIRYANI. FOOD ARRIVED HOT BUT SMALL PORTIONS. FLAVOUR HIT WAS MISSING - NO BOLD GARLIC GINGER OR INTENSE GROUND SPICES. WHILST I WAS SAT EATING I FELT IT WAS NECESSARY TO CHECK THIS PLACE OUT ON FOOD STANDARDS WEBSITE 😯 IT HAS BEEN DOWN TO 2 STARS HYGIENE RATING FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS 🤢 GROSS!! NEEDLESS TO SAY I DIDN'T TOUCH ANOTHER BITE & GOT OUTTA THERE. NO SIR NEVER AGAIN (NOT UNTIL STANDARDS CHANGE TO A 5 STAR) I HAD HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS PLACE BUT HYGIENE FAILINGS ARE...

Not being here for awhile so decided to try again.had a refurbishment done inside very clean and break.decided to hav Ed chicken tikka sizzler and portion of lamb chops as starter.was very tasty and came piping hot.good desi spices .then ordered chicken curry masala chips and nann bread.masala chips where very tasty .but the chicken curry was very disappointed. It was like the chicken was just thrown into a bland sauce and heated up.no taste what so ever.probly one of the worst curry's I have ever tasted.probly ok for a novice eater who does not know abt flavours like what desi curry's are supposed to be like.if I did go back would only go back go for the starters.prices of beer very good and quality of beers very good.freindly service .shame abt the curry.they need to...