The Three Hammers — Restaurant in St Albans

This was my first visit to The Three Hammers, as I was attending the inaugural meeting of a new networking group, which will meet here once a month.

I was most impressed by the very friendly and capable team, who not only made a world of difference with their friendly disposition and can do attitude, but the fact that they took the time to talk to customers (you don’t get that in London)!

The garden looked great, although it was a little too warm for us to sit outside today.

After our network meeting ended I stayed on to have lunch with a couple of others.

I had the chicken, bacon and avocado salad, which was a great choice given we were on the hottest day of the year!

I’m not known for eating salads, as I consider it punishment for doing something wrong, but I was delighted with the appearance, size and taste; so I seem to have been converted!

Many congratulations to the entire team, seen and unseen. To the chefs and their team, I salute you all!! Fantastic job. The burger one of my friend’s had, looked amazing!

I very much look forward to seeing you again each month and more if I can help it (well worth the journey around the M25 from Heathrow, where I live close by).

Congratulations 🥳...

Food was not the best. Low quality, and took a small age to arrive.

We were told that the staff were very short, but those we had were very friendly and helpful. In fact, they are the only reason this was not a 1* review

EDIT: I am adding this edit as I cannot find a place to reply.

Please do not think the review was based on the staff, as I said above, all the staff we met and spoke to, were very kind and helpful.

I appreciate that the superb weather would have had an effect on the amount of customers and therefore how busy you were, but the amount of customers to staff ratio,did not have an effect on the food that we got. It just seemed a bit sub par, and most of what we ordered seemed to be off the menu. The food did not seem to be fresh, rather reheated from frozen.

Once again I appreciate that you were super busy, having worked in a similar setting I understand that it is not your fault on the food quality, or the staff to customer ratio, but it was not the best experience

Once again, the staff were the saving grace, and I would definitely consider coming back for a few beers especially since I have seen that you are dog friendly, would be a nice rest stop...

If I could give this 0 stars I would. Neverrr have I walked into a building and felt SOO unwelcomed. If looks could kill me and my friends would be dead! Everyone including the staff was staring at us as if we had robbed a bank. My friends (who are white) have been here before and they didn’t get stares previously, but now walking in with a black girl, we were suddenly made to feel not welcome. The staff was rude even when we asked about seats to watch the football, I ended up having to stareeee back at one of the staff members in an elf costume in an attempt to put her off staring but that didn’t completely stop her. It’s very unacceptable behaviour from the staff, just pure ignorance towards us as a group. It’s 2022!!!. The Three Hammers needs to do better!! Instead we drove to the Peahenn in St Albans City Centre which was soo lovely, staff were kind and welcoming and so were the other customers! Would highly recommend that one if you don’t know which pub to...