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2 days ago
What a nice restaurant this is! A high standard of food, pleasant, professional service and a clean, modern setting. I opted for a garlic ciabatta with hummus, followed by a generous and tasty pizza and wasn’t disappointed. The menu as a whole looks impressive with surely every taste in food covered. I wasn’t drinking but the wine list provided a great selection with an understandable emphasis on the local product. A good range of bottled beers, too. Cromwell is well served by reasonable pub-type restaurants and there are some classy fine dining choices within a few kilometres of the town centre, but for anyone who wants a good standard of fine dining experience without leaving Cromwell’s town area, Feast should satisfy.
3 days ago
Having read the reviews below, I went to the Bannockburn with the crossword from the newspaper (I was dining alone) prepared for a lengthy wait. My order was taken within five minutes of my arrival and my beautifully presented meal of braised lamb shanks arrived 15 minutes later. Most crosswords take me much longer than that to complete, so my pre-judgment of the service was misplaced. My choice was made from a tempting blackboard menu offering a wide variety of food types. While enjoying my tender, succulent shanks (yes, plural) with perfectly cooked fresh vegetables, I noted the delivery of main courses to other diners was invariably greeted with gasps of astonishment and comments about the size of the meals. The ambience was good, the service efficient and pleasant and the prices very reasonable – especially considering the size of the meals. Based on the experience of only one visit, I rate this among the best pub restaurants I’ve experienced.
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3 days ago
This was the third or fourth time over a three year period I have dined (alone) at the Brew House when in Cromwell on business. Some of the “one review wonders” below would have you believe this is an East London soup kitchen but my experience has been quite to the contrary. I have always found the staff friendly and efficient; the food plentiful and well presented. Realistically, the Brew House is a pub restaurant rather than a fine dining establishment, but as far as pub food goes it is well above average. I shall return from time to time as I consider it reliably good.
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13 days ago
We were recommended The Drop Of Red as a nice place to eat, so we went on Mothers Day and were looking forward to some nice food (wrong)!! We were seated at our table, were presented with a menu, asked if we would like drink which we waited a half an hour before it came,only one person in attendance, and not that many in the restaurant. On putting in our order were advised that they were short on potatoes and would be charged accordingly the meal finally came, so disappointed!!!!!! Seafood chowder was very watery and had little seafood in it, Moroccan lamb hot pot, very spicey/salty and couldn’t taste the lamb and last but not least, chicken hotpot, well havent seen the chicken in it yet. We decided to have another wine, but only a few to select from and was told that they wouldn’t open a bottle of wine unless we got two glasses,didn’t matter that we both wanted two different wines so we opted out of ordering . Oh,and the glassess we were given to drink our water out were agee jars !!!!!! We certainly wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone
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