The Harbour Inn — Restaurant in England

The food was divine. Cannot fault it at all. We had king prawn taco’s and the 3 small plates: halloumi fries, stir fried steak and baked Camembert as well as a side of fries.

Now, I’m bearing in mind that it was bank holiday and there’s a staffing crisis in hospitality at the moment, so nothing is technically the staff’s fault. The service was good, it was just so slow. We booked our table for 18:45pm and arrived at 18:30. We tried to order on the QR code but it wouldn’t go through, saying “payment declined” when trying to use Apple Pay. Never mind, I went to the bar to order to be told they had about an hour wait on food. Now, this place wasn’t busy. There was a table of 9, a table of 6 and a couple of tables of two including ours that I could see waiting (and I went for a walk around the whole pub), so the wait is because they didn’t have enough kitchen staff on… fine, no bother. We’re on holiday, let’s have a drink and a chat.

We got fed at 8pm… about and hour and 20 minutes after we ordered which again, fine due to lack of staff.

The staff I interacted with were great. The young lad waiting tables was lovely although, he didn’t have a clue what was on the plates when dropping them off which I found quite funny.

The food was absolutely stunning. The king prawn tacos were incredible. The Camembert was baked to perfection. The stir fried beef was gorgeous (a little too saucy and a little too raw in places but was still beauts) and the halloumi fries were stunning.

Had they had enough staff on, this would have been a 5...

We were told to order our food and drink s on our phones, and we weren't even brought a menu to look at, although others after us had menu. My mum is 89 years old so I read the menu to her out loud and then order her food for her. We both ordered Cod and Prawn Mornay. From when we sat down to when we got our food was approx an hour, the food taking a good 45 mins to arrive and when it did the Mornay sauce had split and was all runny, who ever served the food new this (so I won't say chef) and should never have served it. The flavour was quite nice though and the dish appeared to have been cooked to order, but as well as the split sauce my fish was over cooked too. It's a shame as the dish did have potential,bit was just very poorly executed. We absolutely should have sent the food back but we had waited so long we simply didn't was to re order and wait again for another meal. We did mention about the sauce but we were not offered any recompense. Only saving grace was the lovely polite young lad who served our drinks and the table we had at the front overlooking the ocean. (We nearly sat inside the l pub end which was dark and dingy and the table had not been cleaned and was covered in sticky beer.) Overall a disappointing experience especially as it's the first time we've visited since it...

As a sports bar this place appears fine but the food I was served was woeful!

Lamb shank, mash and greens; the mash, greens and "stocky" gravey was good but the lamb shank was as tough as old boots! If i didn't know better id say the chef tried to cook this to order in 20 mins or so. Im no chef but I cook these bad boys at least once a month and its impossible to balls them up; brasise them low and slow for 3hrs AND yes I know these can be precooked and very easily reheated for pubs/restaurant.

When I paid for the food i ordered and paid for a pint and half of 1664. I went to the bar for the half and was asked by the young female member of bar staff "can you prove you have the half"......the pubs quiet and im on my own drinking/"eating"! thankfully have the receipt..you might think she's doing her job but if she was I would not have to wait and try to get her attention for what felt like 5 mins in a very quiet pub whilst she was not serving anyone.

The question is would I recommend this pub? Fine for a drink but id stay away from the food.

This is an honest review trying to show positives as well warning other customers about poor food...