Beefeater The Turnpike — Restaurant in England

We decided to try the beefeater as we have visited many times over the years.

Bar staff are lazy and stand around the back texting on their bloody phones, Tables in the bar area were filthy, stained with dried drinks,glasses everywhere, and the place was disgusting, as soon as customer leaves clear the bloody tables and wipe them down its not as if you are busy just bad management.

Eventually, we got seated, and again, cutlery was not clean, and the table was sticky.

Order taken OK here we go , asked for a bottle of wine ( tell you what I won't even go there ). Food turns up, looking like something from Debs Dinner, absolutely horrendous starters,

Mains , Wife has the steak sampler along with skinny fries, A selection of fillet, sirloin and rump, which was which ?? As we will never know as it was fat and grizzle, and the dog loved it when we went home, Fries came out wrong!!!! How , but they did change them, then tried to charge us for them lol

I had the burger, which was dry,had a very strange smell to it but managed to keep it down with my wine that the waiter had never heard of. Both starter and mains now come with no salad whatsoever as a garnish just to put some colour on the plate, staff were more interested in moving bloody tables around while the few were still eating, poor management again, staff not properly trained, restaurant was dirty with more food on the floor than on the plates, This place desperately needs a complete overhaul from the front to the back and adults running the place, not kids running a...

Christmas Dinner at the Turnpike, unfortunately for me it wasn't the best, but other members in the family had a good meal.

For starters most had patè, which was ok, you had loads of it (nice) but bread wise you got a tiny thin bread baguette, could of done with 2 (the waitress said most had complained about this) Also on the plate there was (haha) a watered down chutney, won't say what it looked like.. 😆 2 others had the pawn cocktail.

I had the traditional turkey with trimmings, I'll go 1 by 1. Roast potatoes lovely, Yorkshire pud, a bit rubbery. Carrots were nice 👌, sprouts were like cannonballs, and these were rock hard. Pigs (sorry pig on a diet) in blankets were very thin, and you only got 1. And the Turkey was ok, not the best from what I had in the past from there. My wife and another had steak, and they loved it, said it was a good change to the normal Christmas meal.

For the pudding, I had apple pie with custard, was really nice and had a good sweet taste to it.

Over all, wasn't the best meal but given the day and that I didn't have to cook I can't complain. The staff were all great and had a smile, even the chap dressed like an extra from Miami Vice.

We did have a drunk couple and friend site behind us, absolutely hanging they were, when we left they were behind us, one of the ladies said 'I'm going to be sick' so I tried to hurry my party up, thank god I did as this lady then decided to empty the contents of her stomach on the floor. What an absolute state to be in on...

Really quite awful experience. My family and I (5 of us) visited this restaurant for my brothers birthday, pre booking to ensure we got a table. On entering, the place was relatively quiet, with only around 6-8 other patrons. In spite of ordering quite quickly, it took around 45 minutes for our starters to arrive and again for our mains (several of the mains were visible on the collection point for at least 15 minutes but obviously we wanted to wait to eat together so we did not raise this with the restaurant). Most of the food was good, other than a tiny starter (which the waitress commented on and said she had already requested a bigger portion) and a pasta dish which was substantially burnt. After finishing the food and asking for the bill, we were in the restaurant for over two hours, which considering how quiet the restaurant was, seemed quite excessive.

Subsequent to the visit, the majority of my family and I were unwell with upset stomach’s and vomiting, which considering we are from three separate households and hadn’t eaten food collectively from anywhere else, can only be attributed to this restaurant.

The only ‘saving grace’ in the whole experience was the waitress who was friendly, communicative and apologetic considering the delays and took time out to converse with us, even though she was seemingly the only...