Boundary in Bolsover

Fabulous food and amazing staff jess was so welcoming will come again

No improvements we came to your pub in 2020 and it was poor quality food and hadn’t returned since but we saw you had a new menu so decided to retry and wow what a beautiful meal will be back soon well on Wednesday! Great pub and such a great kids bit it made having a toddler and waiting for food a lot easier!

Briony always welcoming and makes our visit great ever single weekend.

The service was really good. The prices were affordable. Improvement: the steak and ale pie was cold in the middle - needs to be piping hot, luckily it's beef so not harmful. Will definitely return to try out the pie again. Since I've returned... Steak and ale pie has improved. The service was good but considering how calm it was the service was a little slow.

Good food and service, served promptly

Very Good, nice food, friendly helpful staff

Service was great, we ordered on the app and food came in a reasonable time. It was hot and very good quality. We ordered desserts at the same time as mains and they asked us if we wanted them about 10 mins after finishing our mains which was the perfect amount of time for our food to go down. A great place we will be going back to.

Went out with family and briony our server was amazing!!

excellent in terms of service and food, Briony provided excellent service for our group

Visited Boundary as we needed to stay overnight whilst we bought a new car in the area and needed to visit one day and collect the next day. The hotel room is a separate building but was very spacious, it had 1 double and 2 singles. The pub has a separate check-in desk. The pub food was your usual chain pub food not home cooked but it was expected and to be honest was some of the nicest chain pub food we have had and the service was quick also.

First time here, wonderful atmosphere, great food would recommend, and special thankyou to Briony for a lovely time.

Excellent customer service from Briony and always professional

Briony very welcoming and helpful

Very welcoming. Massive clean rooms. Easy parking and an excellent quiz night in the pub on Thursday evenings.

Came for food with friends, excellent services by Briony and the food was also delicious, definitely would come back.

Cheers to Briony for great service. So nice and friendly 😊

Service was excellent, the waitress briony was so welcoming and helpful. The food cai made was also delicious.

Big up briony, My G. GREAT SERVICE

Very nice service briony stuck out with her positive attitude and kindness towards customer

Always a pleasure to be served by Briony - excellent service.

Great food from Cai, really speedy service, great atmosphere. Briony was brilliant.

Lovely place, friendly staff, food was amazing, great value and service will definitely be back 😀

The food, service and staff were all brilliant. Cai, Briony and Kairo were all so kind and attentive.

The food was very nice and it was we enjoyed it very much and wel definitely be back

Lovely food , great service , really enjoyed our afternoon

Good standard and well priced food with friendly efficient staff. Excellent Australian Shiraz decent pint of bitter, steak cooked exactly how I asked for it - the mega mixed grill is indeed mega!

Excellent service from the staff. Nothing was too much trouble for them. Very friendly. Lovely room and the bed was very comfortable. Spotlessly clean and I will be staying again. Thank you for a wonderful stay.

Stayed for a week at Boundary Normanton very friendly couldn't do enough for you massive thank you to Scott who was their to help me out a few times, rooms very clean and comfortable all staff brilliant can't wait to book here again.

Went there as a big group with children and dogs made to feel welcome, great place for family get togethers

Great service from Leo behind bar and great pints

Leo Williams is a brilliant bartender 👍👍👍

Leo Williams served me brilliant, swear the Luke Humphries cut out winked at me 😁

Come for steak night last week with the family, Service was great from the get go. I ordered the mixed grill medium and couldn't fault it. Thank you Dom! Delicious, we will be returning again soon

Had a lovely steak cooked by Dom the other day. Would highly recommend

I really enjoyed the pizza big thanks to the chef Dom Hassall

I stopped in for some good ol’ pub food on my way up to Leeds last Thursday evening. I had the mozzarella & cheddar bites to start and the 8oz gammon steak for main as it just so happened to be steak night. The portion sizes were generous and the food was delicious. I was able to have double egg with my gammon as I’m not a fan of warm pineapple. I asked the kind waitress for the name of the chef that night to leave a fantastic review. Thank you to all the staff for the lovely service and especially chef Dom for the excellent food

Freshdrives is an excellent source for food and they hit it out the park once again. The food, the service and my lord, the atmosphere is decadent. I will recommed Boundary to all my mates.

Great service from Briony during a busy period when the local football team came in. Never lost her smile.

Excellent service from the lovely Briony. Thank you again, looking forward to our next visit!

Dom the chef cooked some great food! Crispy fish and a very nice moist hunters chicken! Can’t wait for the new menu!

Excellent service from the 2 lads ( cal and Leo)on the bar! Great service all round from the lads on the bar to the manager (Scott)!

Steak, beautifully cooked 100% recommend and will definitely be back. Chef dom does some great food

Me and my girlfriend loved it here it was great service and great food. Thank you to callum for helping us out and being so kind!

Went for drink ended up having food with friends. Dom’s food was superb will be back soon

Brilliant meal out this evening, everyone was really welcoming and service was very quick. Thank you to chef Dom for cooking a fantastic meal, will definitely be back again!

BRIANY was a brilliant server. Food spot on. Clean and tidy and staff friendly. Many thanks.

Honest review. Positive - Great pub with a great atmosphere and staff are always friendly and good for children, also has a nice garden with a play area in the summer. Car park is big enough for plenty of parking with 4 EV charging bays. Negative - Never enough staff on the bar and they always look overworked. Marstons prices are outrageously expensive and never enough clean glasses assuming due to lack of staff. For £6.15 I’d expect my drink in the correct glass. London prices in a Derbyshire village, you would think they might invest those profits back into their staff.

This was our first time here and had a lovely lunch. We received a friendly welcome and found the menu to have many dishes including Vegetarian at reasonable prices and good portions. We will definitely return again.

Just been to the Boundary I would it's my local. Since the refit it's very very nice good selection of beers the food so far has been really good,busy bar good staff brilliant management long my it continue

Sat at table 12 had a jacket potatoe with nachos to share. What can I say the food here is lovely the piri piri chicken on the spud was nice flavourful and tender. The atmosphere is great not too loud and no roudy customers lol. Got served by Briony who was fantastic. Great service all round with lovely food and atmosphere. What more can you ask?

Lovely meal. Staff friendly and helpful, Briany very good manners and politely engaged in conversation. Many thanks

Nice lunch out, Briony was amazing.

Briony made our trip out awesome!

had an absolute brill time, briony was so sweet and brought the mood up for the whole group, she was truly amazing! would definitely recommend!

Friendly staff and good food, the fire alarm works too.

I thought that all the staff were very polite and nothing was too much trouble. The onduty manager was very respectful and courteous. The pricing were reasonable and the quality of meals served to us deserve 5⭐️ Everywhere within the pub was clean and tidy with tables being cleared and straightend. Overall, a really nice dining experience.

Friends an kids out Nice food All staff that helped us were spot on

We got served very promptly after arrival, we got seated for dining easily and food arrived within 10-15 minutes of ordering, we even had a voucher code provided for 30% off of the price of our mains which was lovely. The food was excellent as always and cooked to perfection.

Great pub good food. Looked after really well by Lauren

Visited several times. They never have good availability of items on the menu. Popped in on a Wednesday for 1 pint at 10:30 to be told they've stopped serving. There's much better places in south normanton.

It was very busy but I had an incident where I ordered food and drink and the payment came out twice and the order went through twice. I went straight to the bar and they were so helpful and sorted it out immediately. Unfortunately double drinks came to the table in the meantime. I took 2 back but was given them on the house which was very kind. Staff so welcoming and friendly!

We were part of a large group (around 40) who had booked and preordered our meals for the evening of January 1st. Very pleased with the service, staff and the food. Well done!

Visited New Year’s Day, table of 7 with two young children. Food was very enjoyable and the service was very friendly and efficient - even with us being a slightly difficult table, with a two year old crying over corn on the cob…. But the patience of both the FOH and BOH team is greatly appreciated. First time visit and would be happy to come again. Thank you Boundary Team.

We came here Boxing Day for the festive menu. We had pre booked and ordered there was 6 of us never been before. When we arrived told there was a 45 min wait !!! There was no one in the pub. !!! We waited the starters eventually arrive. Wasn’t has advertised. We asked for knife and forks Told to help ourselves. Only 4 forks no knives 45 mins later. Still no main course. Plates not taken away. Now 4pm. Been there 2hrs. Asked to speak to someone. Said mains wouldn’t be long. This was a joke We complained. Asked for refund. Walked out. Spoilt our Boxing Day. Will not return 🤬

Not rated food as did not dine Friendly welcoming place Room was great, clean, warm and a huge comfortable bed

Increasingly seeing more people vaping inside the pub. Don't know if the law has changed but not all too pleasant while eating my dinner if I'm honest

Just spent Christmas day here and it was lovely, my family had a wonderful evening . So much better in the main area , didn't rate the back large room 5 years ago totally not a nice atmosphere. But this year we can't thank the staff and service enough . Brilliant xx

Staff members were sound, food was surprisingly nice for a pub and the drinks were nice and cold. What more could I ask for 😂

All staff were friendly, helpful and polite. They made us feel genuinely welcome and we’re all a credit to the organisation

Nice place good food friendly service nice staff

Absolutely abysmal breakfast with Santa. Firstly walk in and there’s no one directing or seating people, despite pre booking about a month ago. Paid £10 for a breakfast that is normally £2.50, absolutely zero choice of breakfast for the children. My daughter is allergic to milk, I asked for some alternative milk for her to have a bowl of cereal to be told the only milk they have is semi skimmed, meaning my daughter had dry cereal. Same for butter for toast, no alternative butter so she had dry toast which of course she didn’t eat. Then on to the Santa portion, all he did was sit at one table, not even within eye sight from our table, then went and sat by a Christmas tree for a photo. The elf was lovely and chatty, but Santa however didn’t say a single word to my child the whole time we were there. Again, the gift for the child was a £1 chocolate selection bag, which my daughter is allergic to and cried when I told her she couldn’t eat them. Ordered myself, partner and mums breakfast online, only my mums breakfast came. When my partner went to ask where our breakfasts and his coffee were, the staff argued with him and told him we’d already had it! Even though it was clear on the table that there weren’t enough plates for us all. Eventually agreed to be refunded, it was either that or wait for 15 minutes, we’d already been there over an hour at that point and my partner had somewhere to be. Got some of our money back only for the breakfasts to arrive 5 minutes later! Obviously poor communication between the front of house team and kitchen. The continental breakfast was poor too. No bread, juice, butter or Nutella for almost our entire visit, and the selection was really poor too. Also the manager seemed to have gotten confused and thought it was being your young child to work with you day, really unprofessional. We definitely won’t be booking this again next year and I suggest you don’t advertise it either as you’ll only end up with another lot of disappointed families.

We had our works Christmas Party, we had a 3 course sit down meal. The staff where brilliant, very helpful and polite. I would recommend The Boundary for functions. The bonus also being that they have rooms in the Hotel.

Really friendly staff. Food fantastic! Hotel room very clean and has everything you would need.

Came in for a quick meal but the steak was amazing

Brilliant service, all the staff were really friendly. Huge shout out to chef dom and Scott who really made the evening great for us!

Great venue and prefect for the party. The team were brilliant and very helpful.

Really nice experience family and dog friendly pub I enjoyed the vibes there also good fun with the darts and pool table. Nice staff especially the barmaid called Lauren she was really canny. The manager was kind too nice gentleman. Definitely coming back when I come back to Alfreton.

All the guys and gals were extremely helpful. Good food menu albeit some dishes were unavailable which is absolutely fine, i had the Ultimate Spicy beef burger, the chef Dom advised there was no pulled pork available, he said he can do Piri chicken. What a fantastic result, this worked so well with the jalapeño's One of the best burgers i have had in years. Highly recommend for the menu. Thanks Dom 👍

Hidden gem been here twice in the last few weeks both times the meals have been spot on the steak was the best steak I've had in a very long time. Can't fault the food at all. We returned for our family Christmas get together and had a lovely meal thankyou. Nov 2024 I booked a family meal for 15 of us on arrival no seating was reserved for us, so we started moving tables together so we could all sit together no member of staff came over to us just stood there watching us moving tables and chairs. Then when I went to the bar to be served no one was there then a member off staff walked pasted me so I stood there for a few more minutes then the same staff member came back to serve me which wasn't great. We ordered food and asked if it could all come at the same time as we'd ordered separately this was fantastic and the food was excellent we had a lovely meal and family get together even though of the the couple of issues.

Enjoyed the location of the hotel compared to the pub, and appreciated the nearby parking. Ordered a meal from the pub and took to my room - the staff were really helpful at offering options for either takeaway boxes or a plate. Room was very clean and very spacious - really liked it. Checkout was easy and everyone I engaged with was friendly and helpful.

Friendly staff. Food ordered easily and bought out to our table in good time. Food was fantastic quality and will eat here again.

I wondered why there was only half a dozen people in restaurant section on a sunday lunch when all the other pub restaurants were fully booked, and soon found out why. The staff were very pleasant but the sunday roast was very disappointing. Beef was fine but roast potatoes were weird egg shaped things, probably straight from freezer. Regularly have other nice food from here but i won't be having sunday roast again.

Lauren is the best bar maid EVER

Large free parking, spacious space and good atmosphere.

Go to local boozer. We come in most Fridays for a drink or two. Welcoming staff and never any trouble. Lovely family and community atmosphere.

Went for lunch here....what a delight....just how pub food used to be. Barcstaff very friendly and welcoming. Price was also good...lowest we've seen in a pub.....for better quality also.....

My burger tasted burnt the meal is small for the price

Lovely accommodation, really helpful & friendly staff and room perfect for what we needed

Food took a long time to come over 30mins, wasn’t made aware of any delay on food it was 12 midday and only around 4 tables of diners in. I ordered first out of all on my table and my food came out last and made me late back to work on my lunch hour. Food ok but wait not really acceptable for amount of diners in.

Stayed at hotel which was really good, clean, no noise , easy to access. Even the cleaning staff in hotel were really pleasant and polite also everybody in the bar was helpful polite apart from the one arrogant woman with the red hair looking everybody up and down and speaking to the young bar staff like crap. Everything else was excellent and I will definitely coming back.

The food was really good, the service was absolutely exceptional! Sofija was very welcoming, polite and professional. A real credit to the hotel and restaurant! Thank you Sofija.

Always clean & lovely environment. Meals are nice. Staff always welcoming & friendly. We visit mainly on Sunday evenings and never have to wait long for our meals 😄

Grest prompt service..besutiful food steak cooked as ordered . Followed by great mowtown night .

Drink in here regularly. Prices are very high but you wouldn't mind if the beer was good quality. The beer was good but the glasses seemed very dirty. Lots of bubbles collecting round the glass. Bar stuff were very friendly. Taylor was excellent. Why is there no option to rate the beer

Will not be returning . Food was disgusting

Staff not overly friendly. Took a while to be served as not enough staff. Food was OK, nothing special

Pleasant. Friendly staff, a few shouty people in the pub which I could've done without, but overall a pleasant sports / food pub in the sticks. Decent hotel behind it too.

Great staff, quick and very good quality food and decent portions.

Great pub for toddlers, the indoor play area was perfect. Food was quick and reasonable priced. Family room was really big.

Tiny portions on Sunday roast. I feed my 6 year old girl dinners that size.