Harvester Griffin Taunton in Taunton Deane

This was the first time I had gone into this pub and I must say I was very surprised. The food was amazing and the all you can eat salad bar was great? Only complaint was that there wasn't bigger bowls ; ). The food arrived freshly prepared and it was hot delicious and loads of it. I loved how it was presented on the plate as being partially sighted it helped a lot so I knew where everything was. As for the pudding that was large as well. It's my birthday soon so I know where I'm going to go to celebrate. Harvester you now have a big fan and loyal customer, your fantastic.

Gracie was a really good waitress

Took my mother to blackbrook again today 09/12/2024 and thought if The Harvester Griffin at Taunton was open I’d treat mum to a meal, it was open but at 10:40 we were a little early for lunch but decided that we’d treat ourselves to a Classic English breakfast each. with two bacon, sausage, fried eggs, hash browns , slices of toast - one tomato, one mushroom pot of baked beans,we were well and truly full up and couldn’t eat another thing and the food was really well presented. The service was outstanding we were served by Nike who couldn’t do enough for mum and me checking if everything was alright and if we needed anymore drinks or if we needed anything else at all nothing was too much trouble, The Harvester Griffin is an absolutely wonderful and well run pub and restaurant and I’d recommend anyone to go you won’t be disappointed WELL DONE EVERYONE CONCERNED. Top Notch Meal at THE GRIFFIN at BLACKBROOK. I took my mum for lunch as a treat after her hospital appointment, neither my partner or myself had ever been to the Griffin before so I treated my mum to see what it was like. It’s a superb pub and restaurant very clean, well set out and apparently only just been refurbished we were told, there were plenty of delicious starters, main meals and desserts to choose from (I ordered a Chicken BBQ Stack and mum had Haddock and Chips) we both ordered orange juice but there were a huge selection of beers, wines and spirits to choose from. When the meals arrived the were very well presented with good sized portion's and very reasonably priced, we were also given empty bowls so we could choose what we liked from the well and freshly stocked salad bar and were told we could visit the salad bar as many times as we liked. The staff were all very friendly especially Vicky who served our table, Vicky was most friendly, helpful, polite, courteous and had a good sense of humour and was very happy in her work. She also made sure we had everything we needed and that the meal was to our liking. TOP MARKS HARVESTER, TOP MARKS GRIFFIN and most certainly TOP MARKS TO VICKY, WELL DONE ALL we will most definitely be returning soon.

Lidya was incredibly helpful what an amazing service today

The food and service is always excellent in the Griffin and my wife and I enjoy stopping off there on our journeys back and forth from Truro to the East Midlands. Our last visit to the Griffin was on November 28th 2024 on our way back from seeing my 94 year-old mum in Derbyshire, and as usual the food and service were good, including the tasty salads. Unfortunately, today (December 7th 2024) I received a £100 parking fine from Parkmaven for a “no valid parking session.” As you can imagine, this took the shine off our experience. I’m trying to recall whether there is a screen on the way into the restaurant where you enter you registration number. If there was, we didn’t see it, but there were several people gathered on the right side of the entrance as we walked in. Don’t tell me: that’s where the screen is! I paid the restaurant bill in cash (along with a Mitchells & Butlers voucher) and I no longer have the receipt. (My wife had a bacon-and-chicken pancake and I had the full rack of ribs with sweet and sour sauce.) The fine shows we were parked there from 14:49 to 16:08. If you have a record on your system, it would save me some expense. Again, I do recommend the Griffin, but be aware of the parking arrangements which up until now I always found most easy and convenient. ———————- I received a call from Sandra from the Harvester this evening. She was friendly and very helpful taking down the fine details (so to speak) and she will make arrangements to cancel the fine. She also, within the last week, relocated the log-in car registration screen to be more obvious. Thank you, Sandra, it’s a pleasure to have some one so helpful and friendly.

Great christmas two course meal

Came for food and drinks with a group of friends and it was perfect. Debbie our waitress was fantastic…professional, friendly and couldn’t do enough to make sure our experience was a positive one. She’s a credit to the team

Amazing service by Debbie.. who we also named double up Debbie. Great food lovely ambiance. Well done

Food was over an hour wait with no check it but when arrived hot and nice, would of preferred more compote on the dessert

Was greeted by Debbie who made us very welcome and was brilliant service throughout would come back again

We came in as a last minute decision to have some food out. Our food was lovely, we had a couple of cocktails and some desert with a coffee. Service was quick and efficient and our server Debbie was fantastic 😊

Thank you Nick! Very attentive, lovely atmosphere and really tasty ribs!

Debbie is an asset to the company and the food was lovely

The Service was great from Debbie

First time we’ve been back to the Griffin in quite a while and it’s clear that there is new management, the staff seem happier and nothing seemed to be too much trouble. Our waitress Debbie was nothing but professional even though she was in a really busy section ensuring everyone was happy.

Debbie serving was great really funny and made it a joy , the ribs could have been better were rather tough but overall a great experience

Great afternoon with friends! Kirstys service was excellent and done with great humour! Thank you!

Great service by Debbie and lovely food.

Debbie was great very helpful got our drinks refill as stuck in table as a large group and very friendly

Lovely meal at the Harvester today. Debbie was really helpful and helped ensure I had a comfy chair for my bad back. The food was cooked well and the salad bar was great as always!

Debbie looked after us so well and we had a great evening - thank you

Breakfast with friends, no substitute for gluten free no bread, sausage, black pudding alternate. Friend can't eat eggs - unable to swap for mushrooms. Not very welcoming to allergies

Lovely evening, great food. Naomi was lovely.

Great service from Naomi, service and food was excellent.

Service was great. Naomi was very helpful. Steak was a little over cooked compared to how I how I asked it to be cooked.

Great meal and fab service, many thanks to Naomi.

Service was brilliant, shout out to Charlotte! Food amazing! Vibe lovely! Had a great time!

Brilliant. Wish we had one local to us. Dan served us and was such a hard worker. He needs a raise !!!!

Fab meal. Very fresh salad bar and Naomi was a big help on selections and looked after us

Lovely food and atmosphere Great service from Naomi

Lovely food, great service by felicitee very helpful and polite, would 100% recommend

Although very busy, we were cared for exceptionally. The service was both prompt and polite. The food was piping hot, very good quality and plenty of it. This is not our first visit and it definitely won't be our last.

Felicitee was amazing. Very friendly and accommodating. A credit to Harvester.

Our waitress was very good name felicitee

Great food. Very good service by falicitee

Good food, good service and clean.

Lovely visit and Alexandra was very helpful! Thank you

Gracie was very polite and extremely helpful.

Excellent food and customer service. Friendly and professional staff . Very good value for money.

We have visited many times and always enjoy a meal here. Our waitress was Alexandra was friendly helpful and efficient. The food was very tasty with different options to try since our previous visit. We recommend the salad bar, chicken stock and chicken skewers!

Great lunch and fantastic service

Kerry dealt with my coeliac disease very well and the food was amazing! Some of the best device I’ve had when it came to dealing with and allergy, really appreciate it.

Debbie was a great waitress!! Very welcoming and kind and checked on us throughout our evening!!

Had Debbie as waitress and was really polite and helpful, asked us if we had any discounts which felt really transparent

Our server Debbie was amazing! Great laugh! Really helpful and patient. Food was great! Would recommend coming here again

Great service Debbie was a great waitress and was extremely helpful

Debbie was a great waitress, very attentive and couldn’t do anymore for us

Debbie is amazing thankyou for the great service! We will be back soon

Tried items I don't normally eat, based on the recommendations of our server, Debbie. It didn't disappoint! Service was fabulous, nothing was too much trouble. Even with it being busy, she was attentive to all. Will be making another visit very soon.

Debbie has been exceptional this evening. Thank you for an enjoyable visit!

Great service from Alexandra, cheerful atmosphere - pleasant smells and quick food despite being busy. However, for £34 between myself and my partner I wouldn't consider the food quite worth the price - a few minor changes here and there wouldn't go amiss for making it much better, or to make the food itself cheaper. Overall 4 stars.

Our waitress debbie was the highlight of the evening fast service and a friendly smile

Naomi was brilliant looking after us at Harvester in Taunton. Very bubbly character. Great food, very well cooked. Will visit again.

Good food, Naomi was extremely friendly and helpful. Thank you!

Debbie was amazing waitress and reasonably priced

Beautiful, well priced meal in a beautiful chilled atmosphere. Our server Naomi was excellent. If I could rate higher than 5 stars I would. Keep it up

Food was very nice. Our server Naomi was very friendly and helpful. Would recommend coming here to our friends and family.

Had 3 nights eating here. The food is good, but I struggled to find stuff i liked on the menu. Due to not eating meat on the bone. But i had good service from Naomi and another lady. Would recommend as a treat as not to dear and nice atmosphere.

Be careful to make sure you register your car on arrival (we were not advised that we needed to). Got sent a penalty charge parking notice for £100 for a 1hr 10minutes stay to eat.

Fabulous visit to this Harvester today for lunch. I had the belly pork which was one of the best meals I've had. My better half had the Rib eye steak cooked to perfection likewise one of the best steaks she's had. Really well run team with a great quick service along with guidance from Dan. If your not thinking of trying this place out for yourselves you are missing out big time.

Come here at least once a month as a treat and never disappoints. Once in a blue moon they have things not available on the menu which can be a little irritating. Apart from that great food and great staff :)

Debbie was a very pleasant waitress who has an amazing singing, definitely leaving her 5 stars for the service

Came with a friend last minute and the fitted us in. The service was excellent. The food tasty. Debbie was particularly good. Thank you and well done

Debbie was a brilliant host, and the food was fantastic

Debbie was very friendly and very helpful !

Ask for Debbie to look after you! Great service and enjoyable meal

Superb evening quality, value for money food and great service.

Debbie was a warm and friendly waitress. Service very good . Many thanks for a lovely evening.

Debbie was attentive even with a birthday party. Food was good

Debbie was so attentive & always smiling - Thank you Would highly recommend - thank you

Great service from Debbie tonight , fast, attentative and polite , great food also thank you

Myself and my partner popped into the harvester tonight as we were staying locally. I must say our visit was very enjoyable, first impressions were perfect! We were greeted by a very friendly smiling member of staff as we entered the restaurant called Jordan, who then showed us where we'd be seated after checking our booking, all staff that we have come into contact with have been attentive, but would like to say a big thank you to Nick our sever and Jordan who have been absolutely amazing throughout out visit here. They've gone above and beyond what we expected as my other half has an allergen that is out of the ordinary, they both dealt with this brilliantly and weren't phased at all. We will definitely be back when we're in the area again. Thank you.

Food was outstanding and service was just as good, compliments to all the chefs and for team and our server felicity

The food, and the service were amazing as always, looking forward to our next visit 😊

Naomi gave good service and great personality

Naomi was good at serving us she was really welcoming. I'm really polite

We visited on a busy Friday night. Naomi provided great service all evening even though we could see she was very busy. We are really grateful for the service we received and hope when we return she is our server.

Had an absolute amazing service by Naomi thank you very much for that, absolutely recommend coming to Harvester everyone here work’s their hardest and will make sure you are welcome

Very impressed with the staff very helpful, friendly and attentive. Salad bar was lovely and fresh and our main meal and pudding was amazing 😊

It was OK! What you expect from a budget restaurant really. Unfortunately my food wasn't great. I had the mixed grill, and a glass of prosecco. The prosecco was rather flat. The mixed grill was a good combination black pudding, sausage, gammon, chicken and steak. The steak was tough, chewed and chewed but it wouldn't break down enough to swallow, my 1/4 chicken was slightly undercooked in places but my daughters 1/2 chicken was good so a little hit and miss I think, salad bar was a bit bare. Rest of food was all OK. Staff were pleasant and it's a good location.

My server DAN was absolutely a unit I could tell he was doing far too much. DAN was bending over backwards so much for us I thought he might break his back. Server was amazingly awesome

Food was average. Salad bar was grim. Service was crap. Over priced. Rack of ribs was burnt!

Food used to be really good,now seems cheap and cheerful (poor)

Update after another revisit: It's the 9th October and the in-laws want to go out for dinner. After suggesting several other places they unfortunately asked to go here. Since I last visited the place has had a little makeover, however it's sadly still a very poor Harvester. First off, the place was filled with smoke. It was like the extractor fans weren't working, and consequently we all had to wash out clothes when we got home. We were also told the the menu we'd intended to eat kff of wasn't available until the 12th, despite the website saying it was available. When we ordered we were told a few minutes later that one order was unavailable. This happens so we weren't too fussed, however when our food was delivered the replacement meal was missing because the manager hadn't actually told the kitchen what the replacement was. So for 15 minutes 4 of us sat and ate slowly while our food went cold, so that one person in our party didn't have to eat in their own. The staff for the most part were pretty unhelpful l, and it took 4 attempts to ask to pay our bill. Other things we noted were that only half the salad bar was open and was limited in what was available because apparently it was a quiet time. If Friday at 7pm is a quiet time, it should be screaming loud and clear that the management of this venue is poor. That's certainly our take - Harvester as a brand is great, it's just this branch that is ineffectivly managed. I hope I never have to return. Update After Attempted Revisit: I was convinced to return on 25th October 2022, but that was an utter waste of time. We tried to book for 8pm but the (third party) website that is used for bookings wasn't working. However we turned up at 8pm regardless, only to find a note on the door saying that they weren't accepting walk-ins. After talking to a manager we were turned away because apparently they were running out of food. I don't know what it is about this particular Harvester. All the others are well run and clean, but it seems that the Taunton branch is very poorly managed and that people who work here just don't care. Original Review: This was our first visit to Harvester since an awful experience about 3 years ago, but sadly it seems that not much has changed. 35 minutes after sitting our order was finally taken. In fact all night the service was terribly slow dispite the premises being half empty. It's a good job we had nowhere to go as a main and dessert took more than 2.5 hours. We were extremely disappointed to hear that the salad bar wasn't operating, and instead we had to ask the staff for salad. I don't understand this, as the salad bar was the brand's USP, and that has been removed. Aside from that, the stairs leading to the toilets absolutely stink, like something has died and been left to rot. The toilets themselves were clean enough, but the water from the taps was a weird yellow/brown colour. We had no issues with the food. However I don't think a revisit is on the cards as the place doesn't seem well run and maintained.

Probably the best Harvester wr have ever been to. We had booked, but turned up 30 minutes early and the staff were happy to seat us early, despite being very busy. Having only ordered a main course and with it being so busy, we expected to have quite a wait for our food, but by the time we had visited the salad cart and got our re-fill drinks, we didn't wait any longer than about 15 minutes, which was great. The salad cart was well stocked and a member of the kitchen team was forever in and out restocking items. Everything on the salad cart was extremely fresh. Very tasty. Our food arrived and it looked well presented on the plate. A full rack of ribs and a 83 combo was our choices and they were both as you would expect. Juicy not dry chicken and ribs, with a good size portion of chips. We were never rushed by the staff, who were all extremely helpful and cheerful throughout. The added bonus of using the App, which gave us 25% off the meal. A very well run restaurant, which we will be looking forward to visiting again very soon. Definately the best Harvester we've been to...ever. Thankyou.

Visited on a busy Saturday evening without a booking. We were told we’d be seated in 30 minutes, but it took an hour despite many free tables. (think had had forgotten about us) Once seated, service was friendly and quick, but there was another long wait for our food. Disappointed to see a chef seeming to snack in the kitchen, and the food itself was underwhelming—dry chicken and a neglected salad bar.

Arrived just after 11. Greated by a rude unwelcoming member of of staff who only said go to the bar. We sat down in the bar area went to the bar to order two drinks. We then went to order food to be told the kitchen is closed until 12. So quickly finished our drinks and left. Had we been told this when arrived we wouldn't have bothered going in.

Took the family...8 of us 2 x 3-year-olds and a 6 year old. The staff were great really helpful and it was very busy the food was OK.

Debbie was our server, she was absolutely wonderful. So funny and polite. She joined in with our jokes and just made the experience more enjoyable.

Lovely breakfast but still no beans available!

Didn’t really rate this visit unfortunately. The salad bar was empty and I had to ask for multiple dishes to be refilled. When I walked over to the staff, they were stood on their phones. When the ‘chef’ came out, I politely asked for some bacon bits and he bit my head off. Soon after that another lady asked him for a small plate and he was very rude to her. The ‘new’ garlic bread is diabolical!!! One small pitta with garlic butter brushed over the top - £4!!!! Shocking. Then we asked to use our blue light discount (which is advertised on their website) and was told by the waitress they stopped accepting it a week ago. I asked to see the manager who then honoured the discount. All in all, the level of professionalism from staff was very poor today.

Took us two hours for the food to come, told to look for our own cutlery, rack of ribs served dry and told to get sauce from salad bar,oily blund waffle 😡😡

Service was below any standard, and the food was horrible . The table were dirty

Drinks too a little while to arrive after ordering salad buffet was running a bit short..

The flavour of the food was great but the portion sizes were tiny, not what you expect for £15-£20 we have been coming for years and always knew what to expect and loved it, the portion sizes have decreased dramatically and the server who bought our food out, lady with short hair I think Amelia? Was very arrogant and rude. We asked politely for some mayo and when we requested more food after being disappointed with the portion size she responded ‘YES IM ALREADY ON YOUR MAYO!’ Very abruptly and rude even though we weren’t asking for that again. She never bought the mayo out and another staff member did who was very polite and very nice. The manager did apologise on the rude servers behalf but that is still not the point. As someone who works in retail and a customer facing roll we know this is NOT how you treat your customers. If she can’t handle people she’s possibly in the wrong job, she ruined our visit and we’d have been better off at McDonald’s, more full and better customer service. Really disappointed in the harvester this time and probably won’t be returning and definitely not recommending to anyone. As I said a little bit of coleslaw and veg wouldn’t go amiss on the burger and as for the mixed grill, the stake was so tiny it wasn’t worth having a mouth full of it. To add to this the whole restaurant was filled with smoke and it was making our eyes burn and my partner is asthmatic and had to have his inhaler during the visit as the smoke from the kitchen was so bad and thick.

Food cold atmosphere cold . Cold inside the building. The Food was awful cold and disgusting. I wasn't alone couple also had issues.

Food was cold even the second time but they brought it out to us eggs were burnt bacon was burnt toast was barely toasted no cutlery no napkins absolute shambles of a place

The pricing was very spadmodic, garlic bread and waffles were dry and garlic bread didn’t taste of garlic. Garlic bread and spinach in cheese pasta shells was well over priced, it was a child’s size meal. The waiter was very nice. We waited for our meal, had to ask where it was.

Salad bar offered poor quality food and not replenished. Salad bowls removed quickly so we could not revisit (even if we wanted to). Food discovered down the side of the bench seats we were sat on. Overall not a good experience, sorry. Doors to WC were sticky! Discount voucher for 30% not honoured as they have a new menu apparently. Too many reminders via text/email for booking.

This was my first visit to a Harvester bar and restaurant and immediately I felt at home. The staff immediately showed my friend and I to our table. I am an amputee and was pleased with the table and chair design. Comfortable. We both chose the skewers with chicken and BBQ sauce. We both went to your excellent salad bar. I knew I wouldn't be leaving hungry that day! The atmosphere was lovely too. Parking of my car in a disabled bay was very convenient, directly in front of the restaurant. The only thing is perhaps we could be informed of the time limit for parking. Although it's 4 hours, my friend and I could easily exceed this limit by chatting! Thank you for an excellent experience. We WILL be back.