Overstone Manor - Pub & Carvery in Wellingborough

I have been here a few times and the carvery was really nice and great price and i love coming here however very disappointing and upsetting as I ordered dessert it was the strawberry ice cream cake and it was really frozen and rock hard, I couldn’t even take a spoonful it was that hard and I spoke to a member of staff who then spoke to the kitchen and said that there was nothing they could do, I thought it was not really good because of how frozen it was so quite upset about it.

Very good pints and the food was cooked to perfection. Very busy carvery.

Nice pint but would be great if you didn't have to que in the food line when you're only ordering drinks, ?

Food menu needs changing same shit different day service from summer was top notch

Lovely midweek meal. Nice tidy establishment. Staff very friendly. Especially the gent behind the carvery. Think he said his name was Sam or Samuel. Friendly and professional. Taking the time to have a conversation. I visit regularly and not sin him before so must be new. All staff behind the bar very polite. Will be back very soon, especially in the summer garden.

absolutely amazing service from summer at the bar very efficient and enthusiastic food was equally great would definitely recommend

Went for drinks on the bank holiday weekend (sunday) had a very good afternoon, the bar lady was absolutely brilliant very friendly and made the PERFECT baby Guinness shots! Shout out to jess!!! Thanks for putting up with our drunkeness with a smile on ya face 🤣🙈 x

You can have a carvery any night of the week

Had a lovely carvery again on Sunday. Staff member Yasmine at the door greeted us with such a nice smile like we were her favourite grandparents, before showing us to our booked table. If only a lot more restaurants were as friendly as this one...

Lovely place, great food, carvery is always a favourite, Sam’s Yorkshire puddings are Perfect!

My always go to for the perfect carvery with my family..served by Eleanor on this visit, lovely young lady, staff all very helpful, looking forward to returning again soon 😀

Wonderfull and the service great staff great and dot very. Good service very out spoken and polite will be come back soon

I’m sorry to say the food and the quality of it was disappointing and won’t be back for the price of it

Had a carvery on Sunday 18th May with partner and kids. The food was really nice and such friendly service. We had Faith looking after us and she was so good with our daughter. Faith saw that my daughter had nothing to do so she went and got her an activity sheet and crayons. Will definitely come again ☺️

5 Stars! Popped into The Overstone for breakfast this morning and WOW — hands down the best breakfast I’ve had in a long time! Everything was hot, fresh, and full of flavour — proper hearty start to the day! Perfect Saturday morning date — great food, lovely atmosphere, and fantastic service. Huge compliments to the new management team — you can really see the difference already. Friendly service, clean environment, and top-quality food. Highly recommend! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🍳☕️🥓❤️

Great roast dinner...plenty of veg choice...and all hot.

The waitress Alyssa was very good and very polite

Food was awful. My mate is still cutting through his beef 2weeks later.

Had another lovely carvery here Tuesday evening. As always the food was spot on and very friendly service 👌

Had an amazing meal here with my family, staff were very friendly and accommodating. Will definitely return! Thank you for a great experience.

Lovely staff, food was great. Shall deffo come again👍

Whole team is professional, helpful and friendly. Carvery station food was fresh, appetising and plentiful. Val our server is a credit to the team as is the ‘Maitre D’ who was very helpful and very pleasant. Great lunch time treat. We’ll be back! Thank you.

Ordered at the bar, the server was useless and would probably be better off as a glass collector! She did not know what southern comfort was, she charged me for a drink I didn't ask for or even get. Totally messed up my son's food order. I had carvery, was ok but service was very slow. Obviously under new management as place was nearly empty. Last time I went a couple of years ago, the place was heaving,food was great and so was the atmosphere. Shame. I won't be going again.

Stale old food & dessert, very bad, never eating there again. The outside space was nice

Carvery was bloody beautiful 9.5 ! Also kids eat free Easter weekend. Fantastic

Very small serving of meat on the carvery which was a shame. The food was tasty and the price not too bad but seeing as it is the near that you are paying for it would have been nice to see a slightly more fair portion. The lady couldn't have tried any harder to cut it as thin as possible and if you don't want one of the 3 choices then you end up with less instead of offering an extra slice of the ones that you do want they just give you less. I thought that was awful service and will never go back due to this stingy behavior.

Lovely place but sometimes they don't get it right.

Carvery wasn't nice only meat was 3 times bad experiance

Absolutely delicious homemade food and great service. The lovely waiter came to the garden to tell me and the kids the food was ready. Nice play area. Beautiful views in the garden around the back too. Not cheap I guess but where is nowadays. Worth it and really big portions. Need to go back and take photos! :)

Only went in for a drink, definitely will be heading back for a Sunday roast

Book for family meal there was 12 of us all meals come out 2gther forgot a side but as soon said come straight out. Service was nice friendly I had a carvery was v nice kids enjoyed the outside

Value for money carvery and excellent service 👌.

Absolutely fabulous staff are way friendlier that at the queys billing,

I can not recommend this place enough. Good value and a very good carvery. You can buy food off the menu but the carvery is what we always go for with family and friends.

I had no choice but to give a lower score than I would liked just for the sheer lack of service. The senior member of the team was very unprofessional no service with a smile, she was quite abrupt upon returning a drink of soda that had no flavour(syrup ran out) calling a younger member of staff aggressively to try the Fanta and his response was it's definitely fizzy but has not got any flavour. The table staff were great friendly and clearing plates and checking if our food was okay. The carvery starting off we had to ring a bell for service we was finally greeted by the server then he wondered off returning 5-10 minutes later to serve a small queue. The Carvery spread was hit and miss the meat was delicious but the vegetables etc had obviously been sitting for far too long, the roast potatoes were very dry and tasted of a dirty oven the other veg was either too over or too raw. This was meant to be 40th birthday celebration with out of town family and friends. Some other dishes were delicious others again were hit and miss. The Overstone Manor was a great place to eat many years ago with a few tweaks here and there, staff changes etc it could be once more.

I really enjoyed the carvery. Very good for the cost

What a place. Mia, What a wonderful person friendly helpful and an asset to the company so helpful with everyone not shy of elbow grease interacts with everyone

Lovely friendly staff and service

The make waiter young male with black hair was helpful and polite

worst experience… food came out before drinks, then had to wait nearly 30 mins for those, still had drinks missing, the app to order is confusing! staff felt rushed and stressed. (Carvery Was Brilliant Tho)

Food was okay but Mia the waitress was really really lovely, from taking the booking over the phone to make sure we were all having a good time

The food was basic. Our starters were served alongside our main because the kitchen was closing at 8pm. My drink was forgotten about (so much for table service) and I had to remind them to bring it out. We were asked to choose a dessert whilst the main and starter was served due to the closure of the kitchen. Final orders were called at 9.30 but hot drinks were not available. This was my first visit here and will be my last.

My husband and myself stayed here for the first time & we absolutely loved it. The food was incredible and Mark the chef was very accommodating & friendly. They had a wide range of cocktails on offer and it was an incredible stay. We were told before arrival about the passing planes but to be honest, this just added to the experience & fun of being in the lodge. We will definitely we back again

Nice little pub. Park is great for kids. Food is nice but we waited an hour for the food to come out. Great scenery, lovely place. Only bad side is the food waiting time.

I was in the area for business and always enjoy a greeneking carvery. The server on the deck (Zeki) was welcoming and we chatted to me like an old friend. The manager, a lady called Sabrina was fantastic and service was quick and friendly. The cauliflower cheese was so good i had to take a picture. It was quite busy at lunch time but carvery stops at 2 so I think it might quieten down mid afternoon.

Service and queue so bad for the bar and then the carvery we walked out without eating so haven’t even rated the food.

Team on duty very attentive. Great carvery. Welcoming visit. Thank you.

I make the trip to Ovetstone Manor from time to time to treat myself to one of the best carverys I have ever had. A choice of three meats, or have all three if you buy the large carvery. Perfect roast potatoes, onion gravy is great, all the food is spot on.

Waited over 25 mins in the queue for carvery.

Nice carvery normally, potatoes were hard and dry and the meat was overdone but normally much better

Visited today and what a refreshing change. Greeted by manager Sabrina and served an excellent meal by the cheerful and helpful Zeki. Such a lovely atmosphere from previous visits. Highly recommended 👌

Nice friendly cheap n cheerful pub roast bit rough round the edges but it’s still good

Toilets worse than a truck stop, children's toy machines not working, pool table balls thick with i don't know what, food brought out different times, think the cleaner on holiday by the look of things. Don't think much of the management.

If Greene King employed a couple more people to ease the pressure of the rest of the existing excellent staff - I would have given 5 out of 5

Been coming here for 2 years with my little girl. Sadly I will never go again. Management has changed and service dramatically got worse. The food is largely undercooked or very much overcooked. Booked a 2:30pm slot for carvery on a Sunday for me and my 8 year old. Left an hour later with cold undercooked food that went in the bin. Complained to both management and greene king with zero response. Don’t waste your time or money. Go to a toby or poppy field farm.

A large chain pub/restaurant, food was good once it arrived qué for the carvery was extremely long although this would seem not to be normal from what a couple of customers who were regulars said seemed short of staff and those that were there were mostly new was the impression I got,

Always great food and service with friendly staff, thank you 😊

Today 17/01/2025 lunch time we decided to go to overstone manor for lunch for hubbys birthday.I must say we were welcomed by the staff we also had a brilliant meal thanks to the chef .It certainly was a great place to be thank you all

Booked for a birthday celebration. If a restaurant has no heating I’d rather they contacted the customer to advise them rather than wait for us to arrive! Had to sit in our coats and hats. They provided 1 small electric heater that didn’t work! Staff overrun with customers and no manager actually managing. Food got cold because it was so cold inside. Had to wait an hour for drinks because they’d left them on the bar as too busy to bring them to the table! 1 star is generous sadly.

I'm sat here right now and I asked 20 minutes ago for the sweet chilli sauce for my battered halloumi and chips that they forgot and my food arrived barely even warm. I told bar staff that i was missing my sauce and that they'd send someone out with it but they haven't. The salad tasted off and the dressing was rank. I've been eating here for several years and I've only had 1 previous bad experience but this is ridiculous. The heating isn't working either and it's freezing cold inside during winter. The portable heaters they have aren't working and the only warm areas are by the bar and kitchen. I have a chronic illness and it's painful when it's too cold, so having to sit inside a pub where I'm in more pain inside than I would be outside is absurd.

Very friendly staff, very clean amazing food. Plenty of seating inside and outside.

Nice place, food nice, but took over a hour before we got it.

Brilliant night and more importantly dog friendly.

We booked a meal New Year’s Day for 7pm for family Never was informed when booking it was closing early We arrived found our table by ourselves App and blue light card wasn’t working we tried to use greene king vouchers was told wasn’t allowed but states on voucher all day every day Food was coming in drive and drabs so carvery orders didn’t eat with us When we finally queued for carvery one member still had cough from getting over Illness at Xmas got too hot near carvery counter and moved away from food while member of family got her food had a coughing fit chef asked staff for water in the end chef went and got water as staff never came round and even asked if customer was ok in any way We was never asked if meal was ok Roast potatoes was very hard and tasted as if been under heater all day I’m really disappointed as this was my favourite place to eat I do think the staff need customer service training

Nice pub with a nice carvery. 👍 recommended!!

Had a carvery, 3 meats lovely, Will definitely be going again. My friend had the vegetarian option, cheese pie with veg, could of fed 2 people. Amazing

Had the Sunday carvery, we all enjoyed it very much. Plenty of room, no booking needed (although it was at around 7pm we arrived, there were people came in well after us, and the carvery was still going strong) Good food, good atmosphere. We'll be back. Thank you

First time spending Christmas at Overstone, the staff were so welcoming, friendly and helpful. service was perfect and the waiting times between servings were timmed very well. The food was top quality, veg was not over cooked, meat melted, and the starters and desserts were tasty and well presented.

Went for Christmas dinner. Excellent! All the food was really nice and everything on the carvery was fresh. Friendly staff, efficient service and a pleasant, fun but not too noisy atmosphere. Well worth the money and will be top of the list for future Christmas dinners out. Thanks guys for a great meal.

Friendly good value for money best value for money good staff

We were so dissapointed with our Christmas meal. We were sat near a snooker table with players in full swing. The music was far too loud, we could hardly hear each other speak. I have had a Christmas meal at The Overstone Manor before a few years back and it was great. This time there was no paper tablecloth, random knives and forks placed on the sticky table with one serviette. My salmon was brought out to me on a cold plate. When I asked at the carvery for a warm plate he handed me a small plate and I was expected to move the fish onto the plate with my fingers instead of the chef doing it with tongs. The starter looked like it had sat overnight in the kitchen, the crudités were shrivelled as was the 'salad' on the fish starter. In summary, this meal was no different from any mid year meal. We paid a great deal more to actually have less. I have given one star for the service and that would be for the young lad serving us, he was polite and pleasant. The rest of the staff wandered around lack lustre dressed casually. I would not recommend Christmas at The Overstone Manor if you are expecting something nice.

Good location, staff very friendly, especially the gentleman carving the meats. Very reasonably priced & good selection of vegetables.

Went for festive dinner, service horrendous, had to ask for every course and how it worked etc..food was pre ordered and daughter was still given the wrong thing. Puddings with custard were cold as in just come out the fridge cold and when I went to pay and claim the young found it all humerous. This was a family Christmas meal booked at the last minute, everywhere else was fully booked, it was empty here, now we know why. Havnt been a few years here and it used to be such a good place but has seriously gone downhill, maybe it's a Christmas thing who knows but I wont be going there by choice unless it improves.

Went to lunch with sister and husband, we ordered ok,she wanted 2fish and chips, but they had none. She had to reconsider and then join a queue. She asked if all meals would be served together and she was told they wouldn't be to far apart. Ours came ok, they waited and waited and waited. One girl said she would sort it, but didn't.after we had finished our meal.my brother in law, cancelled his order and got his money back. This place was convenient for both of us travelling but we will not be going again. I know it's Christmas and they are busy but this was appalling service.

Menu is a bit dated. No choices really for vegan or vegetarian. Carvery veggies very tasty but need options like other places have . A nut roast or veggie sausages would be a good choice. Cheese & potato pie is the only option. .

I had organised a family xmas meal for 16 of us as we rarely all get together. I chose this place because of the good reviews and recommendation of food. Prior to visiting the communication was extremely poor. I tried calling various times with no answer, left messages which took at least 7-10 days to get back to me. So I was really concerned. On arrival we were sat in a room with others when I was advised we had our own function room! There was no highchair which I asked for prior to our visit and it took 30 mins to turn up. We ordered drinks on the app which took at least 40 mins to arrive. The manager informed us to let her know when we wanted starters bringing out as we had reordered our food for the adults and not the kids. We said we would ordered the kids food and then let her know. 10 minutes after this half of our starters arrived. We said we were not ready for them yet as the kids food had not long been ordered. They brought them anyway. We were given half the starters and 30 mins later given the next set of starters. So half of us were eating at one time and the other half had to wait alongside hungry kids! The chicken strips were inedible so were the brie bites. They were hard and tasted old. The carvery was nice but service was so slow. We waited in the queue for 20-25 minutes just to get served. This meant again people that hadn't ordered carvery were eating without us. What was meant to be a family meal wasn't as we all ate at different times apart from the desert. The drinks service was so slow, we weren't asked if anything was OK with our meals, plates were cleared slowly and overall it was just a disaster. I complained at the end and 2 meals were taken off the bill which we appreciated but it was a disaster from start to end. It ruined a nice family meal and none of us will ever visit again. Also the state of the toilets was appalling and on the toilet check list ot showed they hadn't been checked for days. This place needs a serious overall and management to get it to an acceptable standard. To top it off the playarea was blocked off and not in use which was one of the reasons I booked this place.

Always a banging coffee-mocha and relaxed homely food!! Coffee and cake deal is the one tho 👌 😋

Absolutely great place for food and value for money 💰

We visited last Sunday as a family group of over 20 for a birthday celebration. All the adults had a carvery meal and the kids ate from the children’s menu. All the meals were excellent. The elements of the carvery were all perfectly cooked, served hot and there was lots of options available. All the kids finished their meals. Nice range of desserts for kids and adults. Super friendly and helpful staff. Amazing value for money. We come here for large family gatherings a couple of times a year and the venue has never disappointed us.

Amazing as always great place to go nice and quiet

The manager and staff went out of their way to make sure we enjoyed a wonderful Xmas meal. Great carvery, very generous helpings and a huge range of veg, all cooked well. Venue in lovely surroundings. 'Thank you'from Debra Charity team. Westin Favell

Just one thing. When you try to call no one ever answers, just recorded message, no matter what time of day.

Called in on a whim on a Friday lunchtime. Beautiful carvery meal. Definitely will make another visit.

Amazing carvery, nice atmosphere and plenty of parking, beer garden is lovely in summer

It's not often I leave reviews whilst at a venue, in fact I have never written a review of somewhere whilst in the queue for our Carvery. However, after the shit show we've seen so far, it has to be done. Had a table booked for 14:30, our names weren't down on the list when we walked in, however after showing the waitress our booking confirmation via email, she did go and make sure a table was ready for us. We were greeted with a sign to say that due to unfortunate circumstances, no main menu food was being served, and it would just be carvery...again not an issue as we planned to have a carvery anyway, but what it does mean is that we have been queueing for 40 mins, and there's still a dozen people in front of us. We've to endure people moaning about the thickness of the gravy, how over cooked the veg is, amongst other moans and groans. I can remember the Overstone from 20 l-25 years ago and it is not the same as it was back then! Doesn't seem to be any leadership around, or management. Everyone looks tired, overworked, and stressed which is not right coming from someone that used to run pubs myself!! Today has been a farcical in every sense. We shall have our lunch and promptly vacate, and will probably not use this venue again!!!

No photos! as the carvery mid week was delish! 😋 meat perfect , crispy potato and tasty veg! can’t fault it! nice catch up with a friend . Kelly & Belinda . Now in a food coma. nice one chefs!. YUM

We went yesterday evening and ordered Hunters Chicken. Well presented the chicken was in its own dish sauce lovely. Chips cooked lovely and food hot well done Chef...Staff member lovely who served us .

Was disappointed to find only carvery food available. We weren't informed of this on entering or being shown to our table

Always a great experience the manor! Service from Adam and Lynette amazing every time I come in.

Beautiful food Great service Very clean Wheelchair accessible

We came during half term, due to being short staffed, only carvery was being served. The food was nice and service suffered a bit. However, big shout out to Zeki doing his VERY best to keep everyone happy. Working hard with a smile on his face. Making time to come and speak to my small children. He really make our experience enjoyable. Zeki is an asset to you team!

Lovely Staff went above and beyond to accommodate my food allergies.

Great carvery. During the week it's a nice quiet place to go and it's huge. Food was very good quality on the carvery nice and fresh

We go here at least twice a month. Always had a good carvery and good service.

We didn't eat, but the food looked great.

This place is run down now..The food is poor quality..I had the hallumi chips and salad..Three small pieces of Hallumi and anemic chips for £11.00 👎

Ran out of food for the carvery poor service!

Nice carvery, good beer, great price, lovely setting, great atmosphere.

We celebrated a family birthday meal at Overstone Manor and Adam & Josh were so helpful and friendly and we all had a delicious meal. Thank you both for a brilliant evening 😊

After an awesome ENLROC quiz night and the bar being understaffed, both the kitchen staff and front of house pulled it off. Cracking bar, highly recommend popping in for a swift one, bar staff are always friendly.