Reviews of The Jolly Gardeners (164)
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Couldn't fault our meal. Delicious food, good value, wonderful friendly helpful service. All 4 of us loved it. Would not hesitate to recommend to others.
You cannot beat their Sunday lunch , delicious food , great menu , friendly service and close to home ! I would highly recommend to others
Fantastic pub with a great restaurant. Owners are very friendly and run a great, efficient team. Food was also very good and menu offered some interesting choices. DEFINITELY worth a visit!!
Excellent food great to find a team that cares as much about the food as well as the service. I highly recommend this restaurant. Excellent food and value.
Excellent food, great welcome, just a really happy experience. We will definitely recommend it to others and fully intend to return just as soon as possible
Brilliant. Great welcome, fantastic food and you have to try the Mad Max chips with the secret recipe. We had a wonderful time and highly recommended. Thank you so much for making my 3 colleagues birthday lunch really special.
Our favourite place to visit at the weekend. Superb venue, superb food & the staff look after you extremely well. I highly recommend the muscles. Can't wait to go back!
Slightly disappointed with my first trip to the Jolly Gardeners. The food was ok but took ages to come and then had to be sent back as it was cold.
Staff were very attentive and accommodated us although being quite busy. Nice small garden out the back which is lovely when Sunny. Roast chicken was good
Not what we expected and were recommended as far as the food and menu goes. We had received good feedback and ventured out on a Friday night however, this gastro pub was less gastro and more pub food. Whilst the food was nice and the service was reasonable, the pub did not meet out expectations!
Roast beef was great as always. The staff were very accommodating of the three children we had with us however I didn't think the options for the children were great. I had my two year old and ordered the chicken and chips. The chicken was very tough and fried. I am sure it would be fine for an older child but not great for the younger kids. Overall a great lunch though.
Great food always and great service. It is also within walking distance of where we live. Go there and try it, you won't be disappointed.
The A la carte menu is not available mid week but we had a sharing platter which was delicious even though the ribs were a little chewy. The staff were very friendly and efficient, Nice wine well presented.
Great food friendly staff, will definitely visit again! Would have liked slightly more variety in terms on the main courses, however the cheesecake was to die for.
Really enjoyed my first ever visit to The Jolly Gardeners. Great food. Friendly welcome. I'm just sorry it's taken me so long to discover it.
Good food, great service and a nice atmosphere, inside and out, even on a wednesday night. We would definitely come back here again and hopefully very soon.
Our second visit ...enjoyed the food once more ... this pub is amazing with consistently fantastic food.... staff are welcoming and atmosphere is great I definitely will return
Roast chicken was good. Veggie burger from the specials board was disappointingly not a burger but some vegetables in a burger bun. Service was great, will be back.
For a restaurant overseen by a master chef finalist it was not to the standard you would expect. Just above average pub food, certainly not gastropub
Good service, nice staff. Unfortunately the pulled pork was very disappointing. The pieces of meat I could find were good, but the dish was entirely overwhelmed by a gloopy sauce. I won't be attending a lunch booking again, but heard good things about the evening
Disappointing and definitely didn't feel like the food of a MasterChef winner. There was nothing special about the food itself, and the waitress didn't even know who Druv Baker was when we asked her if he was cooking that night.
Great food and service as well as venue and garden. Perfect for a summer evening. Would highly recommend. Aperol and espresso martini also a bonus!
The food was excellent, very enjoyable flavour combination & quality ingredients. Very friendly environment & great to have such a lovely local pub, we will be going again.
The food was very tasty, but the menu seemed smaller than usual maybe 1 or 2 dishes short. The starters were very tasty and the mains coked well. Service was friendly and attentive.
My wife and I went for a meal on Saturday night, we really liked the informal comfortable feeling in the dinning room. The wine and food was lovely, particularly the whole lemon sole. The service was very attentive topping up our glasses without interrupting our conversation. We'll definitely be back
Wonderful flavours and just the right quantities, sad when it was over! The Staff were very helpful and friendly. We will certainly go again soon.
Very good food and very good service. They have a lovely garden area and I hope to return for lunches there and have them outside when it's sunny.
Great restaurant. The food is exceptional. This is the second time we have eaten at the Jolly Gardeners and every dish we have had has been delicious. Great service too. Highly recommended
we have been many times to the Jolly gardener and so my expectations were reasonably high. I had the sole with sapphire and rosemary potatoes. the Sole was overcooked, the sapphire was bathed in butter, so much so I couldn't eat it and was given an unnecessary amount of potatoes that could have literally fed a family of 4. I was really disappointed.
Excellent friendly & informative service & delicious food - my husband had the beef burger and l had the spicy chicken burger and we shared chips - coleslaw (made with red cabbage) - tomato salad - fennel salad. Could not have had a better lunch time experience on our 26th Wedding Anniversary! Surprised Pub was not very busy on a Thursday lunchtime. Pub was recommended to us by family members. Will go again.
We went for Sunday Lunch -23/7. Greeting pretty good but bit of a struggle thereafter. We all had roast beef which was a generous portion of quality meat cooked as requested. It was rather let down by the roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding which were not crispy or hot .Other veg fine. All 3 of us agreed on this. Wine reasonably priced. The beef was £19.95 from memory and thus at the upper end of local pricing. At that price we would need reassurances re potatoes etc before rushing back
Exceptionally good service, food cooked to perfection, great atmosphere and decent wine list. The place is run well by a dedicated team who pay attention to detail. Nice beer garden - it would be nice to see this separated into "smoking" and "non-smoking" sections, so that those of us who do not smoke can enjoy the spring and summer.
Excellent food, friendly staff with a lovely manner, would recommend this restaurant to all. We had a thoroughly enjoyable experience and will make this a regular occasion.
Went for the first time for Sunday Lunch. The team were welcoming from the start and the food was lovely. Recommend the squid if it is on the menu!!
The food at the gardeners is amazing, friendly service but not too intrusive. The restaurant feels like a pub dining room not too rigid, no table cloths and the bar was buzzing. Great value two/ three course menu wednesday and Thursday. We have been a few times because of the delicious food.
The food was excellent. Good service and very friendly. The wine list offered a good range. The squid starter was one of the best spicy squid starters I've had.
Positive Service/waitress Food was presented well (ravioli was yummy) Negative Laminated menus Lighting Furniture Lack of atmosphere Price Was an enjoyable evening but the price didn't refelect the quality 5/10
The restaurant has a great atmosphere, attentive but unobtrusive staff, fantastic food & a good wine list. There's a brilliant bar attached & lovely beer garden with heaters.
Great friendly and attentive service. The food was excellent & we only had the Tuesday evening menu! Love the atmosphere in the dining room. Will definitely be returning to try the main menu!
Visited with my family. Fantastic burgers and really friendly staff. It was a bit quiet for my visit but this was on a Tuesday lunchtime.