Red Lea Hotel in Scarborough

Amazing quality 5 star's for the exlarge haddock. It's my once a week treat and oh how I look forward to it. I would like the add that the service is gold star and the staff are amazing and very welcoming and really can't do enough. The owner is the Friyer and he really knows his stuff and this comes from a friyer in Leeds. Now retired in Scarborough. If you're lucky enough to find this chippy you won't be disappointed.

Just book it, so worthwhile for everything

Typical pub grub. Big portions for the price. Medium rare steak cooked perfectly. Need to work on the quality of waiting staff and preparing tables. We would have spent more if we received more attentive service.

We booked a table as this was a highly rated place for a roast dinner near Scarborough. I had called ahead and enquired about vegetarian roast dinner options for my girlfriend. On the phone I was assured there were multiple options and although this technically was the case, neither were necessarily the best accompaniments for a roast (stuffed pepper and stuffed pasta). The service was great and we had a lovely table in a corner and the atmosphere was cozy and great. I ordered the beef roast dinner and my girlfriend ordered the stuffed peppers with a roast. The food came relatively quickly. The selection of vegetables was nice and was a welcomed change to have red cabbage and cheesy leeks although they would have been a bit more generous with the portion size as it was to share between the 2 of us. It would have also been nice to have some optional extras on the menu like a portion of cauliflower cheese. The roast dinner also only came with 2 roast potatoes which were really big but would have preferred 3 or 4 smaller ones. It came with a jug of gravy however it was meat gravy and there was not a vegetarian alternative but luckily my girlfriends stuffed peppers were quite saucy so her dinner wasn't dry. My beef was nice however it was slightly chewy and could have been hotter coming out and was only kept warm by hot gravy. Bit of an irrelevant side note but the loos were really nice! Everything else was really lovely and we did have a nice meal and I appreciate it is a small country pub in Scarborough but if you advertise as vegetarian friendly then I think it needs to follow through fully - for example being advised they don't have a veggie gravy upon ordering the dinner or even having a veggie alternative. I'm sorry to be negative, especially when we did have such a lovely time (hence the 4 stars) bu my girlfriend has been vegetarian for 5 years and situations like these feel very frustrating and easily avoidable if staff are more aware and informed.

On Thursday evening around 7pm, I popped in here for the first time with my sister and a friend. After not long leaving Turks head where we had only had 1 alcoholic drink. When we arrived here, it was very quiet, so we was served fast by a lady. After I ordered my drink, I used the restroom to top up my lipstick and went back and sat at the table to drink my drink. I then left to go for a fag, after been in the cold weather I needed use the restroom. When I came out I went back to the bar to order another drink. And the lady behind the bar refused to serve us using the words ‘you’ve been in that bathroom twice, I think you’ve been doing drugs, you need to leave’ she didn’t even allow me to explain the reasons I went in. She was extremely rude and judgemental, I will never entire this place again and be wrongly accused by someone just for using the restroom. Please, if you need to use the bathroom within a short period of time within each time, then just be aware you may be wrongly accused.