The pub itself is in a beautiful building, with a truly impressive bar. The service couldâve been better as for drinks you had to order them from the servers (who were sometimes hard to flag down and we ended up waiting a long time to get our drinks a few times - even though weâve seen they were ready at the barâŠ) while the food was ordered from a website. Wait time for food was ridiculously long - we waited over 75min and other tables were also unhappy with the wait. Not sure if they had lots of takeaway orders as it didnât seem too busy inside. And considering this was fast food - itâs just unacceptable to be waiting this long for burgers. When it arrived, the food was nice but not sure if worth the wait. Good selection of vegan options. Itâs probably a good takeaway option but I wouldnât recommend eating in based on the wait time...
   Read moreFirst visit in many a long year. 6.30 on a Saturday after a late lunch/early tea at The Minerva. It was very busy! Way busier than I'd expected it would be. Mix of age groups. Some people were out early for the evening; dressed up. Others, like us, in their civvies. We enjoyed a drink each. Prices ok. Plenty of seating. It's a huge pub. Nice, cosy front bar and more seating further back with a pool table and dart board. Music playing but inaudible. Absolutely massive TV screens displaying football games/results. My only peeve. Why pubs have to have their walls adorned with sport I'll never know. But I'm neither a landlord nor a football fan. Very distracting. I loved the traditional feel of the pub and the beautiful, tiled front bar. We enjoyed our drink and made our way home. I'd...
   Read moreVery poor experience. Staff were generally nice although it took an hour for an apology for food that was clearly forgotten about. We first asked 30 minutes into the order, no apology, or time estimation. It took further asking to find out what was going on and they clearly only started making the food when we asked about 50 minutes later. The food wasnt even that nice in the end either. Definitely not worth it.
I understand that it may have been busy, but a simple "sorry guys, your order has been seen, it's just really busy" would have gone a long way. I work in a restaurant bar and half of my shift is apologising and letting people know their order hasn't been forgotten about.
Not to mention it was incredibly loud the entire time and generally not a...
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