Robin Hood in West Berkshire

After a trip out to Kintbury decided to Google local Toby and quickly booked on line and luckily could get a table. Warm and welcoming staff. Clean restaurant and the Carvery meat all available with all accompanying vegetables hot. Quick service. Left a happy customer. Thanks again.

I see I reviewed this in June 2022, we were there tonight, and had to decline the food on offer. A generous portion of meat, that ok, but the veg was just beyond anything I expect in a restaurant. Roast potatoes in fat, so hard my wife's shot off the knife onto the floor. I couldn't even split mine using the knife and fork provided. Just not strong enough. Cooked to death and a burnt skin showing they must have been there hours. A concoction of potato and carrot which we bypassed and onto some sorry looking peas. My wife took some cauliflower which was cold when she tried it. So bad we left. I felt sorry for the young waitress who agreed with us. The drinks we had ordered hadn't arrived either so all in all a very poor show. We went up the road fifteen miles away to another carvery for a good roast and drink that was £3 cheaper overall than the Robin Hood would have been.

Visited lunch time bother ordered the Carvary Thete was Pork,Turkey,Gammon and Beef accompanied with usual assortment of Veg. We both had turkey and beef bothe cooked to perfection the beef was too die for tender and very tasty cut at counter given a good plate full of both meats Vegvwas hot and not over cooked The waitresses were great very polite and obliging the place and staff very clean

Living locally the Robin Hood has always been a bit hit or miss in quality. Went tonight at about 1730 and had a really hot and tasty carvery washed down by a pint of beer. Fresh throughout and a fairly generous portion of meat. We never have the puddings so can't say about those. All in all - not bad. You have to sign your car into the car parking which was clearly displayed on the entrance and on the machine inside the foyer so no excuses.

absolute dicks the bloke behind the bar was of his head there was a female staff member running round like a headless chicken only 3 people in the bar yet took 15 mins to be served and to top it of got a parking fine for parking in there car park

Oh god. What has happened. Grumpy German bloke on carvery. If people can't be bothered to come down, give them the dried meat. I think he also may have been drinking in his break. Soo rude. Vegetables are no way like they used to be. Seems like they invent stuff to use it up. Got to the puddings and it was easier to ask what they didn't have. Probably blame it on covid but it's not hard to make a crumble. Come on. Not really a cheap roast dinner but at least step up the quality

This is a restaurant we have been using for a number of years the food itself is not bad,the service is excellent it just a shame the bar staff are naff. NOTE TO MANAGEMENT!! I was served tonight a flat pint of ale when I personally went to the bar to get it changed the barchild (barely out of nappy’s) went downstairs to the cellar to investigate after a bit of noise came back and could not find anything wrong. When I pointed out there was no nozzle on the beer tap he said it doesn’t need one even when it is obviously missing (screw thread exposed). PLEASE TRAIN YOUR STAFF IN THE ART OF BEING A BARMAN.

If you are looking for a basic filling Sunday carvery you can’t really go wrong here. Nothing to write home about but you get what it says on the tin. Good value and a special shout out to the staff who were very accommodating.

Fantastic food, good atmosphere,very good staff, the meats very taste, the service is fantastic but the desserts are very ugly presentation,but I come back to eat, is lovely. cibo fantastico, buona atmosfera, ma i dessert hanno veramente una brutta presentazione, cmq ci ritornerò amabile.

Went to the Robinhood Toby Carvery today for lunch with my brother and Mother today. Was advised the two vegan meals we ordered would take 10-15 minutes. We waited 15 minutes and got my Mum the carvery because we expected the other two meals to arrive any minute. 35 minutes after ordering one of the meals arrived, 10 minutes later the other one arrived. No communication or apologies for the delay. When we told them this was poor they said that they would let the kitchen know! This was terrible service, and my meal was not worth the wait. A very disappointing experience that I won't be repeating. We are a big family so enjoy finding a good family restaurant, but I won't be bringing my family here again sadly.

Arriving around 15.45hrs, it was not busy I now know why The worst experiance at any Toby; and it has to be said is innovative DRY ROASTED (as in peanuts) with hues of color ranging from fawn to black skins, as usual cold plates upon wich to plate the warm food. The macaroni cheese was so hard it might as well not been cooked, The green beans looked delicious but without flavour. Satuday's & Sundays used to be Horseraddish Gravy Days, not any more. The Swede slices looked cooked but again was so dry on attempting to cut flew off the plate. Macaroni cheese was replaced at time of helping yourself & was good. Two minutes earlier there was an empty dried dish.The dauphanise pototoes what was left were drying up but tasted A.O.K. Yorkshire pud, the small and one only tasted like a small yorkshire pud. Carrots and garden peas a plenty perhaps the best veggie available. The mashed potatoe was A.O.K.but seemed to lack the usual creamyness. at £7.99 extortionate you can do a lot better going to Subway. Just don't go there. No enquiry was made by staff how the food was obviosly they are well aware and didn't want to insult

Five of us had a very good Sunday lunch the service we received from Kris was seconded to none, would just like to say thanks.

We have visited this Toby many times but what has happened to it .Meat fine but vegetables ? roast potatoes raw in the centre broccolli raw peas like bullets. The staff were very good and tried to sort another problem .

Have only eaten from carvery. Food was basic but good. Although the roast potatoes go a big soggy.very rare to get crispy one.

Saturday night was a very busy, but we were seated very quickly. Service was quick and our drinks were ordered soon after arriving. Queue for the carvery moved fairly quickly and all the food was cooked very well. All tasted very good with a fairly standard selection of vegetables. The beef was some of the best I have ever had at a Toby.

Llegamos 9. 30 Jueves cordial bienvenida. Dios mío qué elección. El desayuno era más como una cena. Todo lo que puedas comer el desayuno por £4. 45 además de las bebidas, que también fue tantos como desees. La calidad de la comida y la variedad era sustancial y comida caliente. Este es un serio indulgencia de primera calidad y altamente recomendado debe probar

Este era (supuestamente) una rápida parada desayuno de la herradura. Hemos estado aquí antes aproximadamente hace dos años y todo lo que podíamos decir era que era barato y abundante, pero no excepcionalmente buena. Esta vez nos quedamos verdaderamente, nos sorprendió gratamente. El tocino y las salchichas eran de excelente calidad y la patata, judías y huevos muy bueno. Yo no tenía el yorkshire pud y desayuno salsa aunque mi marido no y dijo que realmente lo disfruté. Los huevos revueltos estaban muy bien teniendo en cuenta que era para sentarse a una longitud indeterminable de tiempo. Confía en mí, este restaurante no es lujoso, pero un muy buen proveedor de decente, estándar, lo que también es muy agradable. Por cierto... la parada rápida para 2 platos desayuno duró y no comer nada hasta el día siguiente!

Había 38 de nosotros y una zona especial de descanso.

Tuvimos que esperar unos buenos 3 minutos para estar sentado, estábamos esperando en la puerta. No estaba lleno de 20:15 Había 3 personal sólo Había pasado por nosotros, pero no nos molestó. Nadie se acercó a nosotros para preguntar por nuestras bebidas, esperamos mucho tiempo y decidimos hacer cola justa para el asador. La carne que teníamos era muy pequeña. Hemos comido en unos carvery Toby pero esta Toby en particular en newbury da menos carne!!! El personal no nos molestó revisar lo salsas necesaria para recargarla. Parecían estar muy ocupado cuando no estaba ocupado. Los tiempos de espera eran simplemente demasiadooooooooooooo long. El servicio es muy malo. Cuando pedimos la factura nos dijo que nos dio el £6.50 por 2 campo vale, la cantidad era malo. Nos dijo que tiene un vale pero el camarero insistió en que un descuento ya ha sido descontado. Tuvimos que pagar £23,97 por 3 personas, lo que debería haber sido £6.50 x 3. No discutir como obviamente el camarero no entendía. El personal debe estar bien entrenados, y que deberían escuchar a los clientes más! Fue muy decepcionante comida en general ...

Have been here before .sadly the only place that u can get a calvery meal in the evening and was not impressed with the quality of the meal. As before the meat is very hit and miss..either undercooked or dried up.tonite would have liked pork but there was just a very dried up end piece of joint available I asked if there was any other available was told no not for 30 mins...so I opted for the beef, new joint and it was carved off the end of joint,looked OK but when trying to cut it on my plate could not get the knife through it let alone chew it. I told the waitress it was tough as old boots she said srry and could she get me some more, I said is it off same joint she said yes so hmm no point having more shoe leather on my plate.. The brocoli was hard undercooked and this is always a prob here. Roast potatoes look nice but when u eat them they have no flavour whatsoever.. And this is the same problem on our previous visit we found the veg either undercooked and can't get knife through it or the veg soggy and tired looking.and don't even start me on the gravy.why is it always thin and watery and runs off ur plate if your not careful ?. maybe its more economical for u if thin it will go further..so please tell me what is the problem here.roast dinner should be full of flavour,tasty and enjoyable but sadly u won't find this here.. Deffo not value for ur money.

Decidimos darle otra prueba, lo cual fue un error que era.

Mmmmmmm, lo que puedo decir. Como mi hija estaba lejos pensé que paseo a Toby en vez de cocinar un asado entero para mi. Gran error. Me dijeron que era por lo menos una espera de 30 minutos, pero era bienvenido a comer en el bar, que estaba abarrotada, rechacé. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK. Una vez sentado al final del asador, que era menos que satisfactorio, vi la ternera, cerdo y jamón se veía preciosa. Sin embargo, la Turquía, estaba bien atraso para reemplazar, pero como yo prefiero Turquía lo elegí. Ahora, las verduras. Se ha parado durante tanto tiempo que pedí fresco. Fue cambiado, mala gana. Después de comer mi comida ahora desde hace mucho tiempo la sustitución de Turquía no se materializó, el chef todavía estaba tratando de tallar trozos de hueso del pecho esquelético. El lugar estaba sucio, personal y caótico. No puedo comentar que mi "camarero" sobre mis preocupaciones. Él me trajo el gerente, que expresó mi preocupación y nos dijeron que era que quería una tranquila mesa deberían haber dicho desde el principio y el esquelético Turquía estaba siendo tener enfadado. En verdad, si solitario diner llega, el administrador debe ser más conscientes de que prefieren una mesa más tranquila. Aprecio a estos lugares para satisfacer las necesidades de las masas, pero igualmente deberían ser más preparados, mejor organizada y con un personal en consecuencia para atender para ellos.

Visitamos el Toby hoy en día, la comida era buena el personal era muy amable y con una buena relación calidad-precio, sin embargo los baños estaban una decepción, sucia, maloliente y en necesidad de reparaciones. Tiene que me desanima comiendo allí tengo que admitir, que es una pena, ya que siempre es bueno.

Fui con mi marido para un domingo en este restaurante asador recientemente. quedamos satisfechos al ver que el restaurante estaba lleno y parecía haber superado algunos de mis comentarios anteriores problemas. El personal era amable y trabajando competentemente. Sólo un pequeño problema, pero frente a los miembros del personal de la casa iba detrás del mostrador de comida de tallar carne. No creo que esto era apropiado, sin duda un miembro del personal de la cocina podía haber hecho esto? La gran variedad de verduras y continuamente lo reponían. Comida buena y sencilla y agradable, y está a no más de lo esperado. Decoración todavía un poco pasado de moda, pero parecía más limpio que he visto anteriormente. Podrá usar el restaurante para este tipo de comida.

My wife and I visited the carvery for an early evening meal we had to wait 30 minutes in the bar till a table was free the meal was very good except the chef seemed only capable of carving tiny paper thin pieces of meat and spreading them over the plate to attempt to make it look like a lot don't think there was more than one normal slice in total apart from that it was good meal

I ate here today with my parents for a carvery lunch. We all enjoyed it well, and all cleared our plates, my only criticism would be they don't give enough meat...and the meat you are given is cut incredibly thinly! But still good value for money!

We had a lovely meal 8 of us service was good did not have to wait at all we when on 27/12/2014It was as good as I was told by people who have there and they did not let me down

We took our 3 yr old yesterday for a carvery and we were more than pleasantly surprised by the quality and price. There was a huge choice of meats and veg dishes(which was all you can eat) and the child's meal was free. we were met and seated by friendly waiting staff who were prompt with drink orders and providing the bill afterwards.

Perhaps this bit of Toby advertising refers to the excellent Yorkshire puddings. Unfortunately it is not true of the roast potatoes which were soft, partially tanned and nothing like those described in the menu boards as golden and crispy. There was not one crispy bit on the ones I chose as looking the most cooked. My impression of the chefs was not helped when I saw one of them drop a serving spoon on the floor in the servery, pick it up and toss it onto a shelf with many others. Then I saw him setting out the same lot of spoons ready for use.It's a shame this excellent value for money formula has been allowed to slip; I have complained three times about the roasties and hoped for an improvement but no joy. There will not be a fourth. hopeful visit. Reading Toby does it better.

You couldn't leave here hungry but it's not a dining experience. Because you can't book you have to pitch up and wait - which I can't stand as a customer. The food was good and plentiful and cheap. 2 main courses 2 glasses of wine and a dessert for 30 quid. It's better than average but it certainly isn't very good unless you want a production line experience.

I have never been to this area before and im staying in the local travel lodge and they recommended me to come here when I asked about a nice meal, on arival it was a very welcoming environment where I was met by a friendly face and sat immediately in a quite busy restaurant, again I was served by another friendly face who immediately sorted us out with a couple of drinks.We wentup to get our carvery and AGAIN the chap serving was brilliant. We sat down enjoyed a fantastic meal the meat was perfect and plentiful and the veg cooked to perfection, all in all we spent just over 20 pounds had a couple of drinks each and a lovely meal, Would highly recommend to any body and will be visiting again before I return home

Newbury can be a quite expensive place to eat, so if you are looking for value for money and enjoy a carvery, the Robin Hood is worth visiting. It's part of the Toby Carvery chain, and as such has four roasts that are carved for customers, and 8 vegetable dishes that are self service. On a busy Friday the restaurant was fully booked, but I was able to eat in the bar instead, carrying my plate round from the main serving area. (There's also a limited bar menu, mainly built round the same roast meats.) The vegetables were good - generally not soggy and overcooked (the cabbage was possibly the best I have had in a carvery), perhaps helped by being so busy, so kept fresh. The only nod to Newbury prices is that it's 30p more than my local Toby carvery.Access is easy from the A34 Southbound - just take the A338 old road into Newbury, and it's on the left at the first roundabout/lights. This makes it a useful stopover if travelling South from the Midlands, and much better value than using something like Chieveley services.

each time we eat here the food seems to get better and better.King size portion for my husband a normal for me and a drink for under £17. Excellent value for money. Staff very helpful and polite.Will certainly call in again.

Fast service and the meat was nice and hot good selection of veg and clean table very happy and never had a bad meal yet

We thought by four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon the crowds would have gone home but no. We had to wait for twenty minutes in the bar for a table. Worth waiting for, yes. Good, hot food efficiently (self) served. Enough variety and quantity to please anyone. But not a quiet Sunday lunch. Value for money impressive.

Ate here with family and was delighted at the low price of the meal, friendly service and relaxed atmosphere. If you want a filling, convenient and great value roast, this is the place.

This is the place to go if you want to see just how much food people can actually get on their plate. Whilst I enjoy a healthy appetite I find that I am amazed to see people coming away from the carvery with plates of food piled so high its intriguing to know if they are going to"eat it or climb it?" Still for £6.30 per head its great value for money even if the meat is all a bit tasteless and the "Yorkshire Puddings" are really giant choux buns. Places like this serve a very useful reminder to show that you can still have a hearty meal at a reasonable price even including a drink.

Visited on Saturday at 18:00 it was but where shown straight to a table, from what we4 saw over the next hour or so there where lots coming in to eat and most where shown to a table as they arrived. The food was better than a lot of Toby's but that may have been because of the fast turn over and it not being left standing on hot plates for long. The staff where all very friendly and the wait at the carvery was short, they where continually cleaning the serving area and refilling the veg. We must say it rates among the best ones in the group we have visited in recent years and would recommend it.

Visited on a Monday night last week and the restaurant seemed really busy. The polite host offered us to wait and have a drink in the bar and quoted us a wait time of 15 minutes. We went in after about 10 minutes. I could also see why the place was rammed. The carvery was excellent. Meat was well cooked as were all the vegetables and all that for £6.29! Coupled with our excellent waitress who couldn't do enough for us, the whole visit was excellent.

I have heard some good reviews about the breakfast from a few friends. I went on a Sunday at 9.30am and the place was heaving!!! I now know why..... All you can eat for £3.99 you couldn't go wrong. There was plenty to choose from and non of us went hungry that's for sure. Food was constantly being replaced as quick as it was taken. The venue is getting old but was clean inside and out and the team serving at the bar was polite and helpful. We often use this Toby for its roast which I must say we always enjoy too, but we will certainly be coming back for the breakfasts as well now.

We have been to this particular Toby a few years ago and it wasn't great. However this time it was spot on! Great hot food, smiley service and a friendly greeting from the young gentleman I assume is the manager upon arrival. Spot on. We will return again soon

We visited on the off chance on Bank holiday Monday and was given a table for 5 straight away. We found the staff very friendly and helpful. We all had the carvery and it was excellent. The meat was perfect and there was lots of different vegtables to choose from. You could even go back for more veg if you wanted and the roast potatoes were the best. Will go back as excellent value for money. The prices of the drinks was excellent aswell.

We regularly (up to 4 times a week) have a meal at the Robin Hood. The manager and staff are fantastic, the food is excellent and the venue is comfortable. The staff go out of their wayto provide our needs. Recently I was in a wheel chair following foot surgery and found the venue to be totally wheelchair friendly. The staff could not do enough to help us! The only problem with giving this revue is that more people will attend. Having read the reveiw from Ba Thurgood I was really suprised as we regularly go at that time in the afternoon and have not experienced any problem. I am sure that if they had spoken to the staff that the food would have been replaced.

I have eaten at this restaurant on many occasions in the last few years. The food was perfect for the occasion, but small things spoilt the ambience of the day. One family member's cutlery was not checked when the table was laid and was found to be dirty even though it had been washed. One of the staff was acting as front of house and walking around in an apron which was very stained and looked frankly terrible. Surely there must be other spare aprons? If not,the management need to purchase some. The standards are slipping which is a shame because this has also been a great place to eat. Apart from these small issues, the staff were friendly and welcoming,and the rest of the property was clean. Although it is looking in need of a refurb. We will try again and if the small standards remain unchecked we will not eat there again.

So, I have been here many times (not sure why this is my first review) but mainly for breakfast. If you like all you can eat breakfasts then it is reasonable. At £3.99, you'll be hard pushed to beat the price however, the food is at a very average standard.4 stars have been given for my visit yesterday when I went for the carvery. Food was absolutely great and the staff were very attentive and friendly. I took advantage of being able to go up for more veg which was replaced frequently. The best pork crackling around too! A very different experience to breakfast. Can't complain at 2 courses for £6.25 either.

We came here at 4 pm on a week day and the meat was dried up, the vegetables looked like they had been sat there since lunchtime, and the price has gone up £6.29 each. The food was not even hot this place has gone down hill fast. Maybe new Managment needed.

It does what it says on the tin, a great carvery. I went for Sunday lunch and the service was efficient and friendly. The food was well presented, hot and very tasty.

Having visited before we knew the regime, although not having any free tables do 'wait at the bar and order your drinks there' seemed a new tactic to pay extra on your drinks! Nice surprise that under 3s eat for free - our little one ate her own weight in mashed potato!Could have cashed in the 'big plate promise' for not bring offered it at the counter - though the only gain is really a bigger plate and more meat do chose not to bother.Overall was up to the usual standards with the added bonus of DD eating for free.

Ive been coming here for years and the food is always acceptable, if its not then ive asked for it to be changed and always done without questions.Puddings are always nice. Decor could do with a wipe down in places mainly the air vents on the ceilings. Overall for under £6 your getting a mountin of food.The breakfasts on the other hand are luke warm or look dried up the few times we have been. Waiting for them to step up the morning breakfasts, no stars there!! The Staff are always friendly in here though sometimes a little understaffed. If your not happy with the table choice, they are always happy for you to pick one. Its a first come first served basis, No reservations aloud unless your in a party of 6 or more i think.

Today i took 3 friends to breakfast at the Toby thet start a 09.00 hrs so arriving at 09.20 i thourt the food would be fresh and everything would be ready.Very Sadly this was not so we were shown to a table no one explained to use how the breakfast worked we had to watch others to get the idear,The food was ok at the very best the Bacon was very and i mean VERY over cooked,The container witch held the eggs had so much fat in with the eggs that it ran every were when trying to place 1 egg onto a plate.You put your own Toast into a machine no problem but the Butter/jams are left under a hot light so its very runny when opened.Only 1 man was working on seating people as they arrived and clearing tables he was being pushed to his limit trying to cope.The tea/coffee ran out then when it was replaced coffee was VERY VERY Strong and cool at best sadly a very big let down

Considering this was our first visit for breakfast we were expecting much better as we have eaten there several times before for the evening carvery. The bacon was so salty that I had to drink a pint of water when I returned home. The sausages contained very little meat and were soggy in the middle. The fried eggs were rubber like throughout and the grilled tomatoes were burnt on one side. When I opened the butter pack to spread on my toast it poured out in a liquid state. I then tried a mug of filter coffee to find it too was of a very poor quality with a bitter aftertaste so I moved on to try a mug of tea as I was so thirsty after the salty bacon to find that the hot water dispenser was not up to the temperature required to brew the tea bag and was only warm with only a drop of milk added. We were presented with the bill and it was only after payment were we asked if all was well. When we said no, the manager was summoned and after our deliberations above he tried for himself the sausage and bacon and agreed with our findings. He refunded the cost in full and said that he would be contacting the supplyers and that our complaint was similar to another he had received that morning. All in all the manager did all he could with damage limitation but we will not be returning there for breakfast for quite some time. Let's see if they act upon the advice we gave. You have been warned!

We visited this carvery with friends. I was a little concerned because the Trip Adviser reviews were not great but the evening we went, everything was great!The food was very good, I am a wheelchair user and the staff put themselves out to help us sit in an “easy” area and one of our party had food allergies and both the chief and the rest of the staff were very knowledgeable and helpful.The whole evening was good and both the food was better than the average Toby Carvery and the final bill was very reasonable.Based on our one visit, I recommend this venue and we will be back

Once seated we had to wait almost 10minutes before a waiter served us, we almost left them but waiter arrived. The carvery is of a poor standard, the veg has been on the hot plate too long, made comment about the veg but it was shrugged off.Don't GO and save you pallet.

Visited yesterday (Saturday) as part of two families. We have eaten here on a number of occasions and whilst the service won't blow you away, the food is, on the whole, fine. Visiting on a Sunday tends to lead to a long wait to be seated which is why we either go mid-week or on a Saturday. Much better value if you can get a voucher which they often advertise. However you can return for as much veg as you like and the fizzy drinks have a refill station. They revamped the entrance a while back but they really could do with smartening up the interior with some lighter paint/decor as it can be on the gloomy side on a cloudy day but that's only my opinion!

We used a 2 carveries for £10 voucher from the Toby website. Seated quickly and invited to the carvery. No queue which was unusual ( we went latish on a Saturay evening) but the food still seemed fresh and OK. Food was as expected. Didn't try the puddiings. Service was fair but not brilliant. OK for a english type meal at the price of an indian.

This a Toby Carvery. This place most certainly doesn't Live up to the Toby brand. The service was so bad that if I could have rated it a zero I would have. On arrival I waited nearly ten minutes before anyone even spoken to me. Once seated again waited ages for someone to take an order. After finishing and wanting to order desserts... And again waiting ages the order was taken... However the used plates weren't even cleared. The order arrived well 2 of items did... Then another item 10 minutes later... The last item never did arrive. Oh yes and don't go if it's raining the roof leaks and an umbrella might be neededGo there at your own peril