Harvester Brewery

The service here was really good, seemed to have four staff on with one doing all the work which didn’t seem that fair. The place was rather empty when we arrived and we had a choice of table rather than being ferried to a certain point. Unfortunately there was no diet Pepsi available and they had ran out of some steaks — thankfully I kind of knew what I wanted anyway as since the menu changed here I don’t rate it as much anymore. The good news is the meal I like is on their offer. You get an unlimited drink, use of the salad bar, main meal and a sundae all for £9.99 — they have some add ons if you like — not a bad deal at all! So the Cauliflower, Cheese and Tomato Tart it was for me. The veg was cooler than I would have liked but the tart was tasty so made up for it. What really made this though was the service, really friendly, chatty and went out of his way to help, cannot fault him at all. The salad bar this time wasn’t as good as usual, whether they had run out of things I don’t know but I wasn’t as impressed.

My wife and I went here on a whim because they said they had a good salad bar. We were definitely disappointed by our experience. The supposed all can eat salad bar was one of the most pitiful salad bars I’ve ever seen. All it had was some cheap iceberg lettuce and a few scraps of things to put with it; the typical shredded carrots, peppers and cucumbers. It was far from what we were hoping for. The menu itself was passable, but the food wasn’t really that great. The chicken was a bit dry and tough and the peas were covered in some sort of butter like substance.
To top it off the service was fairly slow. There only appeared to be a few tables occupied and there was plenty of wait staff running around, but it seemed to be just a lot of noise. Our food took a long time to appear and I had to flag someone down to get my check.
The only redeeming part of the meal was that I was able to order an honest to goodness ice cream sundae, which is something I’ve had a hard time finding in the UK.
We may go back, but only for dessert.