Harpers Brook — Restaurant in England

On entering I had the sense that I'd seen this all before. We were meeting up with friends and family and once seated we were quick to notice the sticky tables and the cobwebs on light fittings. It did not bode well for ordering food. The menu was the usual steak burger mixed grill but did offer some vegetarian food. Sadly on ordering the vegetable pie it was not available so an alternative was sourced. My fellow diners ordered, one being the gammon steak and chips with the customary fried egg. It was okay although the gammon was small in size of plus had a large amount of fat attached. I believe Aldi sell two smoked gammon steaks for around 1.30 this was 7.00 with a few chips an egg and tinned pineapple ring. Then it was my order 4 pork sausages mash gravy and veg. What could go wrong? After a wait a plate came to the table that resembled a not so good hospital meal. Carrots peas thrown on the side the carrots were tasteless and probably out of a tin with no seasoning plus watery. The peas were the opposite hard or dry in texture. Now for the mashed potatoes it sat on the plate like a cow pat and resembled smash mix something I'd not experienced since the late 70s. Mashed potatoes should be creamy and fluffy and sit proud on your plate however this was an effort long diflated from its best. Then the gravy, now I don't ask for much but a pack of bisto granules couldn't have been that hard to make but no even the gravy was like dishwater. No taste no colour ruined the meal. How hard is it to make some decent onion gravy? Only positive was the sausages 4 in total, they were not too bad , they had a meaty taste and were the only items consumed from this order that cost 6.75 , it's rediculous that some mash a spoon of carrots a pile of dried peas could cost so much but there you have it. I wasn't going to complain but someone in our party did on my behalf, this resulted in not a personal apology but a free dessert. Overall this is another tired corporation pub that's in need of a pick me up. Let's hope for the people of Corby this is sooner rather...

Myself and family joined yourselves for Christmas Day dinner, I must say it was absolutely amazing from the minute we walked in the door to the minute we left. As soon as we arrived we was shown to our table, we were given a few moments to sit down and settle, then staff came over to get our drink orders, the young lady was very polite and helpful.

We then waited for about 10/15 minutes for our starter to arrive. I must say the portions was bigger than what we thought they would be and it tasted delicious. Once we had finished staff came round cleared all the plates away and made sure that we were happy so far. We then waited for about 10 minutes for the main meals to arrive, again it was absolutely delicious the turkey was cooked to perfection, one family member had lamb shank and the meat just fell off the bone it was also delicious. Again the portions were a very good size. Again once we all finished staff came and cleared all the plates away and then we were asked if we would like dessert straight away or would we like to wait for 10 minutes. To us as a family we couldn’t have asked for anymore to be done as all the staff was very friendly and helpful.

We was touched by the little thoughtful things as when we was seated we noticed there was a Christmas card for all the family from all the staff which, we thought was a very nice touch as we have been to different places previously and we never once experienced the brilliant service that we did at harpers brooke in Christmas Day.

We are definitely booking with yourselves again for next year.

We cannot wait to join yourselves for New Year’s Eve.

Again thank you so much for making our...

Well service only 2 people serving 👏 food nightmare could of killed someone steak was still frozen chicken curry cold 🥶 and sausage and chips sausages not cooked rock hard and mega mixed grill steak frozen and also peppercorn sauce was not it was more like a French mustard and garlic mayo was not it was normal mayo Terrible and when sent back still came back the curry still came back cold will never return refund was given but dies not make up for not eating has a family and the feeling of not having family time ruined when my son was back off to uni the following day such a missed moment that was ruined I was informed you have no magament in there and the chief was new so if the chefi is new would of thought food would be good I feel he ruined the reputation in a night and should be told to go.I often vist the other Marston in the area spread Eagle and find that is 100% better and great staff and service Shame this is not the same and makes it hard to get the money fir family times. Kind...