Harvester Griffin Taunton in Taunton Deane

Very good service despite being very busy, thank you

The ambience was good. Food was good. I like spicy food and they do cater for palate like mine. Drinks great. A lot of options to choose from and friendly environment

Good food although portion sizes are smaller than they used to be. Debbie was fab!!

Debbie was amazing, food was incredible unlimited refills with Pepsi and others. best restaurant I've been to in a while

Debbie was really friendly and helpful

I had planned to meet a friend for a catch up and decided to eat at the Griffin. We arrived at 7pm and were shown to our table. The restaurant was quiet and we were assigned Naomi as our waiter. We were not told about the salad bar but our food order was taken. We ate our food and then waited for the waiter to clear our plates. They walked past and asked if we were okay but left the plates in front of us. After 15 mins I decided to move the plates myself. We then waited for another 10 mins with no attention. The restaurant was almost empty at this point.I then went to bar to order another drink and ask for dessert menus and explained we hadn’t been attended to since ordering our main meal. We then sat for another 10 mins and I decided to get up and go to the bar to order our desserts. At this point there was singing and dancing in the kitchen and around the restaurant by staff. It really ruined our evening out.

Nick was very helpful and amazing service. 5 stars 🌟 for him.

Lunch at Harvester Griffin in Taunton hit the spot with a comforting plate of scampi and chips. Crispy, golden, and served with all the usual trimmings - sometimes sticking with the classics is exactly the right call.

Visited 1815 on 5 April..Without any exaggeration my burger was so overcooked I could tap it on my plate and play music and the bun it came in was black. Won't be visiting again anytime soon . On the plus side The young man who was the supervisor on front of house was exceptional dealing with my complaint and a lot of other complaints from what I could see 10/10 .. Not enough staff for the amount of people dining. And the cooks can only be judged by what they put on your plate 2/10 😒

Food was amazing and was fast delivered, our waitress felicitee was 100% spot on, looked after us really well, was very polite and well spoken

Unfortunately, was really disappointed with our visit to this particular Harvester, this evening. Food was fine, but the service was not very good I’m afraid. There was only three of us (two adults, one child), but was there for two hours in total having had only mains. Staff simply couldn’t seem to cope with the volume of customers present - even though the restaurant, whilst being busy, was certainly not at capacity. We asked for drinks (I opted for the soft drink refill), but it took so long to come, I only had time for the one drink and no refill, which kind of defeated the object! This is all a shame, because we have enjoyed previous visits, may be it was just circumstance this particular evening.

Are waiter Amelia made are table and many others laugh it was one of my best birthdays

Very good. Cannot fault the service or the food. The only issue we had is, we were 4 adults who ordered 4 main meals. 2 came out and 2 didn't. After waiting awhile we got to the point of going to ask where the other 2 meals were and they brought them put as soon as they could. Whilst I could have knocked my scoring down for this error. The customer service outweighed the negatives

Always found this a great place to eat and never had anything but great food.Need to book for evenings or weekends as always busy.sometimes short on staff but they are always happy to help and why rush?it's not supposed to be fast food.

We went again after having a good meal a while back. So we booked a table at 3 and it was 4 o'clock before we were seated. We then waited 50 minutes before the food came and three out of 5 dishes were cold, not warm cold. We were given an apology and we only paid for the hot dishes but never again.

Cameron our server bless was absolutely amazing done so well considering he had loads of us to deal with - food is amazing and service was brilliant thankyou definitely returning amazing place and atmosphere

Ordered from the lunchtime menus 2 courses for 13.99 each Both had chargrilled chicken and chips gravy and sundae best desert and 2 small bottles of diet coke £7.00 extra Chicken was literally a chicken breast cut in half bullet hard overcooked or refried or heating lamp chips and garden peas and broccoli and about 250ml.of gravy in a separate pot. To be honest I could have cooked the same meal for 4 quid for the both. Chips were offered to be replaced half way though the meal but by then would have been too late, plus also we are small eaters anyways so didn't want the extra chips, Ice cream wasn't too bad but no were near enough sauce just mainly ice cream and an upside down waffle cone. The coke was crazy for the amount I could have bought 4x2 litre bottles for the amount I was charged. And to top it off they messed the bill up and overcharged by 10 quid. To be honest we will never go back to this one, went to the spyglass in Weymouth and that one was much better. We could have bought about 5 days food shopping for what I paid for the poor quality meal and exorbitant priced soft drinks. Had to wait 15 minutes to pay the bill which was wrong anyway Never again

Perhaps other people have positive experiences about this place...Lucky for them. I don't visit often (once a year) because of the negative experience I(we) have each time. Returned yesterday with the hope this time will be different,better. Two of the meals I wanted to have, they were not available anymore or off the menu. Eg Tandoori chicken skewers, tacos, no 8 oz stake as a meal, as it comes only cut in the flatbreads... A good server would FIRST make aware their customers what items are Not available, thus sparing everyone's precious time... The girl serving seemed overwhelmed, kept addressing us with " hun, my love, lovely" . I am sorry but that is not a professional way to address customers, especially when they are more than twice your age and have asked not to be called that. I find that patronising and condescending . Our food took about 30 mins to arrive, when other customers ordering after us got theirs before us, We got our drinks 15-20 mins after first ordering them. The second drink I was fed up with waiting 15 mins for it, and got it from the bar within 2 mins. Many items at the salad bar were tasteless on their own. Needed to ask to be topped up as it was empty when I went there. Pros: The half grilled chicken was nice, decent, the 3 corn cubes were tasty by quite burned (kept too long in the deep fryer?). The young man at the bar was very genuinely nice, friendly. This is a good place to come for drinks only... I do recommend Harvester Salisbury. That is a place were I always return lovingly.

The food was ok time for waiting was unreal first time and last not for me couldn’t even have a coffee as no milk !!!!

Lively, pleasant, clean, well priced, plenty of space.

Food was that bad, out of 10 of us 6 of us had food either over cooked,(medium rare steak was brown inside,no pink, it was dry), chicken burger was dry(the chicken), onion rings with no onion, and some you could snap, it was that bad they gave 50% off and a free round of drinks.

Service was poor, firstly we were kept waiting to book in for a long time . As it was busy we sort of understand that but there was no apology . We then sat at our table, again after a long wait our drinks order was taken and at the same time we ordered food . The waiter then said he would go and get our bowls for the salad bar. We had another long wait for the bowls but even after that and going to get our salad there were no drinks served. The table had no serviettes and there were no side plates for bread rolls either. The meal itself was quite nice but the whole experience was ruined by the service. Also the loyalty card app would not work despite the waiter disappearing with my phone. We would like to return again but hopefully the overall experience will be better next time. One more thing, there was also used serviettes left on the table when we arrived.

Tyler was a lovely waiter, really great service and so funny.

Tyler was fantastic and nothing was to much trouble. Food was prompt and delicious

Tyler is an absolute gent. Looked after me and the family all night long. He may have upsold me on the steak, but it was totally worth it. Meat sweats all night thanks to big Tyler!

Great service. Friendly and attentive staff.

Good service and excellent quality

Nick served us and his attention to detail was great will definitely come again !!

Utterly Disappointing Experience at Harvester The Griffin I’m not even sure where to begin ,we booked afternoon table for lunch at Harvester T/G and the experience was beyond disappointing. The service from the staff was appalling. A waitress came to our table to take our order, only to walk off mid-process, chat with her colleagues, and completely forget about us. We ended up being served by about 5–6 different waiters, each of whom made mistakes when delivering our food. There were seven of us dining, and every single person received their meal at a different time. It was chaotic and incredibly frustrating. When it came time to order desserts, things somehow got even worse. We waited over 30 minutes for our puddings, and when they finally arrived, every single order was wrong and they still came out at different times. When my Ice-cream arrived it looked like soup. YES it was that bad The staff clearly have no idea what customer service means. Most of them spent the afternoon standing behind the counter chatting with each other while ignoring customers. The food itself was mediocre at best, which added to the disappointment. Please save your money and avoid this place. If this level of service continues, I wouldn’t be surprised if they shut down permanently. Absolutely disgusting service. “Management”, Please consider this review as constructive feedback rather than criticism. We kindly request that you refrain from responding with an apology, as we heard "sorry" repeatedly from your staff throughout the afternoon. A truly exceptional service experience from the outset would have prompted me to leave a positive review instead.

1/. Our party of 3 adults and 3 children aged between 8 and 12 arrived at 16.55 and our server showed us to out table and said he would be back shortly to take our order. 2/. After 30 minutes we still hadn't seen our server, so we asked another member of staff to place an order. She said no, but she would ask another server to help. No one turned up. 3/. We repeated this 2 more times with different servers. after 50 minutes our original server showed up. He had no understandings of allergies and had to seek help. He was new to the role, but should have been shadowed. 4/. We had to keep asking other servers for updates on where drinks and food were. 5/. Our children were amazingly well behaved considering that it was now well over an hour before they could eat or drink. That was only achieved by us leaving our table and effectively shadowing the staff until dishes were provided for the salad and drinks were served. Even then the drinks were incorrect. at the 2 hour mark, our food trickled to our table in dribs and drabs. The 'hot' food was for the most part cold and very very overcooked. 6/. There was no follow up by any staff member to see if everything was OK. 7/. Children's dessert's were ordered at the same time as the meal. 8/. We were now at the 3 hour mark continually asking staff for the deserts to be served. 9/. When the ice cream desserts were served, they were served in very hot bowls, which meant that the ice cream and accessories had all pretty much melted. 10/. Even trying to sort out payment was a struggle. 11/. Other Griffin customers had left in disgust due to the abysmal service. 12/. This was well over 3 hours of trauma for our whole party. We had very tired and agitated children to try to placate. The adults were very courteous to the staff, but the point is, the manager, if he felt the restaurant was overwhelmed, should not have allowed any more guests in. 13/. In short, our evening was ruined and the reputation of Harvester has once again been very badly tarnished. 14/. Having to pay anything for dreadful service, and appalling food does not lay easily with me. It should not lay easy with the staff either.

Never ever again! My family of 10 visited the Harvester this morning for breakfast. The food was passable at best, with a lot of it being pushed to the side of the plate, we showed a hollow dry and shrivelled sausage to the server who said she would speak to the kitchen. We then had to follow up with her to be told 'it's because they had to cook a lot of them'! The floor was disgustingly filthy, with yesterday's food debris, it is clear the floors had not been cleaned, we walked through to the bar area and it was in as bad a condition as the restaurant. I will never eat here again, did Covid teach people nothing? If I could give a zero or minus rating I would. Cleanliness should be top priority, they shouldn't even be opening the front door without the floors at least being vacuumed.

Enjoyed our family breakfast. Excellent service from Lidy, very attentive and helpful

Great but good few items on menu unavailable

I have being going to many harvesters over the country for many many years, but today the meal I had ,Roast chicken that was absolutely disgusting, 12 peas , jacket potato that was a size of a chickens egg!!, broccoli 2 pieces, that thank god I got my real teeth, must have been on the boil for at the most 6 seconds, and as for the advertised gravy, should be prosecuted under the trade discreption act, it came out in a thimble size that I remember my dear ole grandmother use to use in 1953, to add insult to injury ole tattoo waiter told me that the excuse for chicken was normal, as they soak it in water overnight, well I am no chef but when chicken is inedable, and it certainly was not edable , i expect meet not watery meat, i would suggest the chicken was taken from the freezer straight under the grill, after a couple of minutes of discussion Tattoo decided to take it back,told us it will take between 10.to 12 minutes for the the replacement was ready, it was exactly the same,unbelievable, the waitress who looked after us after tattoo matey left, apologised, it such a shame ,even the salad bar was empty, I have never expected a refund, as if I have a poor meal I never go back, and I certainly will not, Harvester you must look at your chef at Taunton and the Tattoo waiter who by the way is male and very aggressive , moan over 2 very disappointed ex customers

Certain drinks ( White Wine ) unavailable! Food didn't represent the description on the menu .The half chicken & where was the corn on the Cob that was advertised? Served an unedible cube of overfried sweet corn. Also, ladies' toilets had No toilet paper, No soap in the dispensers, & Hand dryer wasn't working! Very Disappointed with the whole experience. Our waitress, Felcitee, was lovely, & tried to help & resolve our concerns.

Lot of people but everything was dealt quietly. The waiter at the bar was very kind and served us (table 103) with smile and sense of humour.

Remy mullet looks very mullet like and grown nicely, good service also good thanks you

Absolutely brilliant place to eat ❤️❤️

We came in for lunch today, can’t fault the food. However the service was quite poor, our waiter wasn’t attentive at all. Our salad bowls weren’t delivered, my partner had to go get them from our waiter who was stood behind the bar chatting to his work colleague. However, Our food came out in a timely manor, and the food was amazing props to the kitchen staff. Once we had finished with our meal, we were offered dessert menus which we had agreed to. However our waiter Randy never came back after 25 minutes we decided to go find him just to find him yet again behind the bar chatting to some colleagues and making inappropriate comments and hand gestures.

Great value for money and top service. We have been visiting here for over 20 years and like anywhere you go some days can be great and others ok and a very few days can be not so great ones. If you are looking for a friendly atmosphere and food for everyone of all ages then this is the place.

Lovely meal at Taunton harvester our waitress Debbie was great

Debbie was lovely, very attentative, and great service! Thanks Debbie!

We had breakfast here on Saturday 22/02/25. The three of us had the classic breakfast which consisted of two of everything. My issue is that the yokes of my fried eggs came out hard, all of our toast was stale and I was given all the crusts from the loaf of bread. The two eggs I had were really tiny. Maybe offer a breakfast which consists of one of everything with a larger egg. On a positive, what we did have was fine, tea and coffee was unlimited.

Lovely time, great service, good food. Gracie was a delight to be served by, and was very cheerful.

Lovely food, great atmosphere, Gracie was a nice, friendly, and helpful waitress.

Starters came out quickly, but then we waited an eternity for our main clearly they had been forgotten as others who came in after us got there food before us, server was apologetic and kept telling us it was coming but took well over an hour and a half for 2 courses when it wasn’t even that busy food was okay luke warm when it came out but didn’t want to complain in case it was taken away and we had another hours wait, been before and not had an issue but will definitely think twice before coming back again paying over £100 for three of us would expect quicker!

Well, I've had to update this as it wasn't quite what it use to be! £48 on 2 meals steak and battered hallumi with chips.. very pricey, service was okay but was just sat down and left with no return until I prompted a member of staff about the salad.. 10 minutes later we received our bowls.. quarter of the way through our salad our main food came out.. £4.30 each on salad it's a little extortionate.. overall I doubt I'll be coming back here again due to cost. Steak medium rare came out more medium than medium rare.. But I will comment on how professional the staff were when spoken to and very well dressed hense the 4* would have been 5* if we hadn't of had to ask about salad and ordering our main.. I'd understand if they was busy but it wasn't exactly that busy.

Friendly and helpful staff who were able to assist my wife who has a food intolerance. However, the best thing about The Griffin is its location - right next to J25 of the M5! We often drive from our home in the south midlands to Devon or Cornwall and always factor in a meal at The Griffin. So, so, so much nicer than a motorway service area!

We went for a quick bite and the service and attention was exceptional. The food we enjoyed as we had 2 starters and salad. can't knock our server at all. 2 very sceptical people who enjoyed in the end TH

The service was excellent, prompt and pleasant. Smiley professional staff. Excellent food No improvements needed for me thanks

The food was amazing. Very tasty and plenty of it. The steak was just perfect (cooked by Tom) and the skewers were also nicely cooked. Debbie looked after us and was great for recommendations and suggestions, particularly about the Build your own Sundae. She went out of her way to ensure we had a great evening. We will definitely be back again soon. Thank you.

Food was delicious. Debbie was extremely friendly and very efficient. We would highly recommend.

Food was good and Kirsty gave us great service.

Our drinks were ordered promptly but had ask for a waitress to take our food order as we seemed to be forgotten. The condiments seemed mostly empty including the blue cheese dressing to put on our salad. Basically not enough staff as our waitress was rushed off her feet.

Food was very good but a choice of batter or bread crumbs regarding the Haddock would be good. The food was hot unlike one Saturday evening we were served 'tepid' food. The waitress was lovely and very polite and helpful, Lidya is written on the 'give us a review card, so I'm guessing that is the name of the waitress who served us.

Our waitress Lidya was lovely and friendly and efficient.

Visited the Harvester Griffin Taunton. We absolutely love the harvester. It is so nice as we can walk over to the Restaurant. Sandra and her team have done it again they just go above and beyond our waitress was Rosie-may she is so nice friendly and just goes out of her way to help. Meals today 15/02/2025 was the original combo with chips and chicken bacon waffle delicious

Friendly welcome nice table layout with sliding divider. Nice touch. Great service by Rosie-May. Checked several times on our meal. Smiley young girl working hard Well done

Food was delightful and delicious Remy was working super hard this evening and definitely deserves some recognition for his hard work

Lovely food and brilliant service our waiter was Randy and he was really good today we had a nice chat and he was really enthusiastic and just really joyful to have as our server today so thank you Randy Steak was also brilliant

Honestly had a really lovely evening here. The food was so so good and the music was proper good tunes. I do want to give a mention to Randy who was so helpful and was honestly the sweetest server I’ve ever had so thank you again to the staff for brilliant food and a brilliant atmosphere, you were all incredible :))

Our visit was on Valentine's day. We were seated away from the music and not near bright lights which was my request when booking which was great. The waitress was very pleasant, patient and attentive. The food was lovely and my husband's steak was just how he wanted it. I love the salad bar which was well stocked. Is was great for the drinks we wanted especially my husbands no alcohol beer choice. He was able to get a % off with his NHS blue light card. We thoroughly enjoyed our evening.

Excellent service from Felicitee 🥰

Lovely food , great atmosphere & Debbie our waitress was helpful polite and knowledgeable as Thankyou again harvester for a lovely meal again

Excellent service. Debbie was great, will definitely come again. Thanks for a nice evening

The waitress was so lovely, polite and accommodating her name was debbie

Debbie delivered perfect customer service and made sure that everything was really good before we started eating.

Debbie was fantastic! Very helpful

We went to the harvester in taunton and Debbie was really nice and so helpful. She made sure that everything was 100% perfect and was overall very lovely.

We were served by Debbie today, absolutely lovely waitress and she strived to get us the best offers for our meal today which was really appreciated. We were also late for our booking by accident and were worried we’d get turned away but the lady who greeted us squeezed us in which was very kind. Couldn’t have asked for better service today.

The service from all of the waiters was amazing, the wait time for food and drinks was good as well. All round a very positive experience and I don’t think there’s anything to improve!

We were a party of 16 for breakfast and service by Kirsty was wonderful and the food was good. Would recommend.

Breakfast was tasty but cold... so was the hot chocolate! Service is usually prompt but not this time even though it was early and only one other couple in. Be sure to register your car reg as last time we visited we got a fine, which they did agree to cancel after a phone call.

Food was good, our waitress was lovely. Just one criticism which I hope gets noticed, the entire restaurant was really cold. Majority of people were sat with their coats and hats on. It is February, the front door was propped open and the cold draught was really unpleasant.

Great meal this evening, salad bar was well stocked and staff were happy to refill items when asked. Naomi was our waitress and she was very helpful, friendly and professional. Will definitely return

Fantastic service from Naomi tonight for a family meal. Food was good, broad range with a good choice of vegan options.

Excellent food and service by all, especially Naomi, who couldn't do enough for me Thanks so much. I highly recommend 😀

We were served today by Naomi and had a fabulous meal with excellent service.

Debbie our server was great and apparently her son (Dan), the food was great value for £8 chicken Tuesday. The salad bar was well stocked and the food came out quickly, well cooked and hot.

A great meal and excellent service from Naomi our waitress x

Lovely friendly staff and great food

Debbie was brilliant - really quick service and such good value for money!

Lovely food and quick service, friendly staff and nice atmosphere.

Amazing food quality. Staff were welcoming. Great atmosphere.

Debbie my Host, was absolutely delightful! Friendly and couldn't do more for me. Everything was taken care of regarding my food allergies. Brilliant pub and i will return

All the food was amazing, great customer service but the only downside was the length of time we were waiting for the food. It was well worth it though as you could tell the time and effort put into my chicken, bacon, and waffle, and was a great birthday meal for me. Naomi was a great server and was happy to put up with all our arguing over the food.

Fantastic quality food and service with a smile very polite and professional with all the customers around thank you Naomi!

I don't think you could improve on anything on this time , we got checked in 15 mins before time of meal , which was great , we got service almost straight away , which was first time ever , in coming here , and the food was nice and hot and no problems at all , with the lady who served as at the table , she made sure we had everything we needed at table , so over all , service was just about perfect ty.

Served by Naomi, very friendly, very efficient and helpful.

Naomi was an excellent waitress - very patient with our large demanding family

Naomi was great, really enjoyed this harvester experience which made for a great double birthday evening. Thank you

Amazing as usual, been going to Harvester for a long time and always been quality food. The service was great, Naomi was able to manage my big family and all our orders were correctly delivered. One of the nicest restaurants in Taunton and atmosphere is great

Lidya was like a breath of fresh air. A lovely, bubbly, helpful young lady.

Great service from the staff especially Félicitée, good choice of food of good quality

Felicitee was a great server, friendly and efficient

Amazing service from josh and food was so good from tom today

Served by felicitee brilliant service and very helpful

Waitress felicitee was phenomenal and so good at her job and she met all our needs

Service was nice. Food was pretty grim and expensive. Didn’t eat most of it.

Naomi was incredibly helpful and courteous, a credit to your company