The Brook Inn — Restaurant in Plymouth

We booked last minute as we had been in Plymouth shopping. When we arrived they showed us to our table and were very welcoming. On looking through the menu we realised it wasn’t carvery style but thought it would be ok, we paid £48 for 2 adults mixed meats and 2 children’s roast plus £7 for a child’s nuggets as youngest is quite fussy!! The wait was quite long we waited about 20 minutes for our meals to arrive!! When it did the meat looked lovely, the children had 1 potato each, a stuffing ball and parsnip and a Yorkshire!! Our 2 meat ones looked good but still only 2/3 potatoes!! Then the veg came out a bowl of red cabbage, a dish of brocoli and a dish of sliced carrots and then the smallest dish of cauliflower cheese to serve all 4 of us!! We basically had a sprig of cauliflower each!! Then the nuggets came out on first sight I could see they were over cooked but because we had already waited long enough I did g make a fuss and went with it, but yea fussy eater ate 1 mouthful and that was it!! We had to ask for more gravy and I can’t fault the girls as they were both lovely!! No one came to ask how the meal was so couldn’t air my views until afterwards and we just said about the nuggets which they refunded!! I own my own catering company and well my roast dinner is double the size of there’s and half the price as well!! Unfortunately it wasn’t a pleasant stop for us purely price wise it was a very expensive roast dinner that wasn’t really a roast!! All of us have come home...

5 of us went for dinner this evening. Our table booking hadn't gone through properly but that wasn't a problem and we got a decent table. However, we did have a few issues with missing items and the temperature of some of the food, although one person's meal was fine. One meal (chicken, ribs and chips) came without it's peas, and the ploughman's didn't have it's pork pie but we didn't mention either as we were not that bothered. The vegetarian lasagna and beef lasagna both arrived stone cold in the centre without the cheese on top being properly melted. Both went back and the beef one was reasonably hot when it returned, but the vegetarian one went back four times before it was reasonably warm. The beef one only came with one piece of garlic bread but there was no sign of the advertised salad. We didn't have pudding. We used to come here a lot a few years ago and wanted to start coming again as we like the place and we're pleased to see new tenants, but we were quite disappointed with the food...

Along with my wife and friends we searched for a local pub for a good roast dinner. As the website said roast coming soon I decided to ring them up and find out. I was greeted by a friendly voice on the other end who was very helpful, cheery and felt like I was talking to a mate that I had known for years. He informed me what they have recently took over the pub and they hired a new chef who was excited to start cooking, when asked about the roast he informed me that this was the first Sunday they were doing the roast. On arrival a friendly face greeted us and promptly showed us to our table and took our orders.

Now to the food. The roast was wonderful. Big portions, lots of meat and every plate got a Yorkshire pudding, not an aunt Bessie but a homemade one which was in my opinion makes or breaks a roast. The vegetables were cooked well and we had not a boat but a big jug of gravy.

If you want good food, great service and delightful location this is the place to go. Oh and it is...