Saltdean Tavern in Brighton and Hove

A lacklustre experience on more than one occasion. There is no notification when you walk in that service is via the bar which only has one person serviing or via the QR code. Tonight no apple sauce or brown sauce! Starters cleared away but menus left on the table! I have been for breakfast on seven occasions and they have only had black pudding which is advertised on the menu on one occasion with an array of excuses as to why it is not available. Very often breakfast replenishment is slow, you have to wait for a chicken to lay an egg for it to be cooked and added to the breakfast bar. Service is non existent, it is self service in every sense of the word. The carvey was ok though. This place is crying out for table sevice for the complete service offer excluding the carvery of course, in my opinion.

Went for help yourself breakfast, good choice, eggs and bacon over cooked, coffee run out.

Absolutely fantastic traditional pub / carvery. Great family atmosphere and service. Food is amazing and great value. Carvery, pub classics and even a pizza bar . Lots of parking and transport links. Superb location next to the stunning historic Saltdean Lido and literally fifty steps to the beach and sea. The local area is an Art Deco heaven. I highly recommend, regards Michael

I went in for breakfast today. I was very impressed by Grace who served me. She was cheerful, polite and very helpful. Thank you to her for her very welcoming manner. The food was also very good. Thank you

A victim of its own success, the atmosphere always depends on the patrons. Sadly a few customers lack of manners and basic understanding of how to use serving utensils spoilt my visit. The team provide what's needed for each choice of vegetable so why take dirty serving utensils from other dishes to cross contaminate the food on offer?

Trinity, Megan and grace were all so catering for us as a group of 9. Only compliant we had was the beef burger was extremely dry.

Brilliant experience, good food, great service 👍 we went for Christmas dinner 16 of us

Average carvery and average breakfast

The staff are wonderful and there was one particularly I remembered named Maeva. She was so helpful and enthusiastic and she was able to uplift the atmosphere. I would definitely come here again as everything to me was 10/10 but I just wanted to say a massive shout out to Maeva as she really made my day and delivered an outstanding service.

Second time here in 2 weeks, absolutely fantastic!! Excellent service and attention from Grace, very helpful, nothing too much trouble. Food served to us by Oren, again with fantastic service, quality of food was excellent, prices were fantastic, so good in fact our Son paid !!!!. Well done team, see you again soon.

Visited on a Monday in December. We had prebooked. Used Bluelight card to get a 20% discount on the food. We all had the standard carvery which was delicious. Excellent vfm. A go to restaurant for family meals. Friendly staff. Highly recommended.

Nice food pleasant atmosphere value for money - eat all you want breakfast

Good bottomless breakfast, thanks Grace for yet another good experience

Grace, Jasmin, Oren and Charlie were brilliant, catered for around 25 people with quick and effective service. Made the whole experience lovely and would recommend highly coming to the tavern for the carvery!

Very very very friend place and the atmosphere we were served by the waitress maeva and the service was very lovely always making sure we were okay

Thanks Grace for great service!

Very Filling, Love the Atmosphere the staff Maeva was absolutely brilliant

So good and welcoming and the staff Maeva was so nice

Go every sunday for the most delicious & value 4 money carvery. Always greeted by staff with a genuine smile as they take yr order. Excellent service. Food is always hot & cooked perfect & chefs are really friendly & carve your choice of meats then you help yrself to delicious veg choice...consistant perfection every week & gravy is delish too. Highly recommend. Toilets also spotless.

Food and service was of good quality and Muumy Elf who served us in table 33 on 24/11/2024 was fabulous

Service not what I expected I went to the bar for a second coffee and was handed the cup with no saucer or request if I wanted sugar.thevpuzza was amazing although the wait wad a long time

I enjoyed a simple vegan burger and chips meal tonight, washed down with a tasty pint. It was tasty and appreciated. But the best thing about the evening was your employee Grace who was extremely helpful, friendly and accommodating. She is a credit to your company. Thank you Jimmy

Thank you Saltdean Tavern for the lovely festive meal for 28 of us today. We had a great time. The food was excellent. The staff were so helpful you all work very hard.

Ok so l have never posted anything like this before..... This morning my partner and I experienced complete and total homophobia and racism from The Saltdean Tavern. Instantly when we walked in, we were given the look of disgust. Blatantly ignored by some woman with brown hair and blonde highlights by the name of Shai or Shaina. Yet when an older WHITE English man came in, she became completely attentive and assisted him instantly with a smile We asked if everything was okay, but she ignored us completely. Avoiding eye contact with us. We asked for the manager, who was totally not prepared to handle the situation. We asked for the name of the employee, but she denied giving it to us. This was entirely a racist and/or homophobic situation and I will not allow this to be swept under the rug.

Un lugar encantador para comer - el personal es muy amable y acogedor! Pub es muy limpio y ordenado y la comida era encantador y gran relación calidad-precio - recomiendo encarecidamente una visita! Gracias.

Great lunch food served quickly and piping hot! Carver charlie was really helpful!! Will return again

Ordering from the bar all good. Had carvery not all meats were available, some veggies were low. All hot and well presented, some sauces not replenished. Overall enjoyed my meal.

Come regularly great food and atmosphere better than the school dinners carvery in p/haven

Grace was absolutely lovely, really friendly and personable, food was delish, just what you want, would definitely come back!

Amazing food, our servers Grace and Bailey were lovely 10/10 service!!

Our waitress was Grace and she was very friendly and attentive. For the price of £6 we had a very tasty roast dinner brilliant value for money.

Great service, Grace was very helpful and friendly and really sweet. Food was good, you get what you pay for. Decent budget meal.

Great service. Grace was lovely. She was very sweet and helpful and really friendly. Food was good, you get what you pay for.

The staff are extremely, efficient professional and friendly. Grace often serves me, her customer service is outstanding!

My wife and I popped out for a £6 carvery, with a special voucher, on Bonfire Night. Lovely meal, with great service from Grace.

Stopped here for a lovely carvery on fireworks night before going to watch them. The warm welcome we received was excellent from trinity who got us seated and told us how it all works. We then ordered food and drinks from our server Grace who looked after us very very well whilst we ate and made sure she helped us with drinks and extra food we ordered on top of the carvery and made sure we enjoyed our meal and everything was ok in a super friendly nice way. I rarely eat at Stonehouse as the last two local ones I ate I’d never ever rush back too but the food here was much better cooked than the other ones and we’d defiantly return. All in all 10/10 from Grace, trinity and a great carvery chef.

Friendly, helpful and efficient service. Carvery food tasty enough but a bit dried out at the in between time we visited (4pm). Will be back.

We enjoyed a quiet Monday evening meal and drink with friends. Grace was very helpful and attentive.

Great atmosphere great food and value . Have visited at different times of year and always enjoyed food and drinks here . Staff always friendly and very helpful too . All family enjoy it here . Table for 4 or 8 no problem . Thank you .

Ordered food this evening dry and awful service shocking cutlery dirty left did not even eat it

Really great food, super tasty and the staff were so lovely and helpful! They couldn’t have done more for us. Big thanks to Grace and all the staff!

Great service by some lovely people. Excellent carvery.

AVOID… shockingly bad. Rude, mentally vacant staff. Bereft of any customer skills once they have taken your money. Noticed how dirty and tired it is. Borderline squaler.

AVOID.. Absolutely shocking. Waited for 15 minutes for somebody to serve us after paying. Queue of people.staff milling about doing what seemed to be very little.woman who took order went in out kitchen smirking. Very rude manner. Eventually gave up hope and got money back at bar. Deserves minus stars. Also noticed how extremely FILTHY it was. AVOID

Great place, busy, efficient staff, nice food!

Good value food and the staff are really attentive and helpful!

Excellent service from Grace she is incredibly helpful polite and an absolute joy to be served by. Keep up the good work Grace

Went for a big family get together here there was a great range of food and drinks available the staff were amazing friendly and very helpful kids were happy with the toys from the ball machines and adults satisfied with everything else highly recommended

The staff were helpful and courteous and the food was good

Good place to get a decent meal at a reasonable price, lots of choice on the menu, clean and tidy

I love going to this restaurant. Food always good.

Gracie was a wonderful waitress for us this evening , very accomodating and knowledgable about the confusing parking system! Knew her wine well , we will DEFINITELY return another time. Beautiful meals!

I used to love the saltdean tavern it's really gone downhill since I was a kid I came with my partner about 2 months ago for a breakfast thr toast was cold and burnt, sausages were burnt just wasn't a great meal! We thought we would give it another try but this time we came for a roast dinner and safe to say I will be finding somewhere els to eat from now on staff when we arrived here moody and unhappy chef was unhappy and didn't Evan smile, was only carrots and peas for the vegetables that isn't a roast! The potatoes were vile and tasted frozen and rubbery so we didn't eat them thr only thing that tasted gorgeous was the gammon meat it was beautiful I usually don't leave bad reviews but was really disappointed with this service

Lovely carvery and evening with family

Close to the seafront and big enough to meet groups of friends.

Really lovely meal with kids, great service (Grace). Very good value & welcoming atmosphere

Food was great, excellent value and our waitress, Grace, was very attentive and friendly.

Lovely food and staff. Just a shame the app don't work properly when we were there but other wise it was good. And a shame some of the pudding were out of stock but other wise was ok

Grace was so lovely and approachable. Always love my weekend breakfast in the tavern

Service from Grace was excellent!

Enjoyed our family carvery, Jasmin was our server doing a great job, very attentive, she was working on her own mostly, so we had to clear our table before sitting, but for the price overall a nice experience. We had to ask for all the sauces to be refilled, they definitely seemed short staffed. Thanks to Jasmin she made it a nice evening. Roasties could be crispier !

We both had the carvery and it was great value for money , we gave a 5 star for both service and atmosphere as we thought grace was exceptionally welcoming and friendly . Well done

Our server Grace was very friendly and helpful, the food was nice and good value for the money.

Very friendly and helpful service and good food

Grace was very helpful and friendly. And food was good. The music creates a nice atmosphere.

Food and service where impeccable but the atmosphere was abit too loud for my liking

Excellent service for our large party booking. Grace and Jade were really friendly and helpful.

Grace and Jade Great host and serving staff. Will be back again

Exceptional service from Grace today !! As always the food and service was impeccable.

Great place for a Sunday lunch. Grace is lovely.

Not a nice experience. We had booked this carvery as the one at Withdean was closed. Arrived at 6pm welcomed and taken to our table. Ordered our food and drinks. The pizza arrived after ten minutes and was enjoyed by our son however the carving was a massive disappointment. The meat was fine but the vegetables were terrible especially the potatoes which were warm and chewy. Peas were dry and can’t comment on the cauliflower as the dish was empty. With only a few in the restaurant and at 6pm I would have thought that they would have plenty of vegetables. This was not like our previous visits. The person in front of me scooped out the remaining beef gravy so it was just an empty pan left. The staff ware friendly but the food was a let down.

Good food, needs some air con for those warm summer days.

Always made welcome, friendly staff. Enjoy my couple of Carling 👍. Will keep coming here, even though it's a short bus ride away

Very helpful. Very professional and great food. Big thanks to Grace

Three of us went at 6pm. The staff were nice and welcoming. One pizza ordered and two traditional carvery’s. The pizza was nice and the Turkey and Gammon were fine however the vegetables were horrible. Potatoes looked nice however they were very chewy and either reheated of cooked and left standing. Peas and carrots were dry and warm. The meat gravy I had to scoop the last portion out of the pot which left it empty for the next person. Although the Yorkshire pudding looked good it was soft like a pancake. We visited this one as the carvery at Withdean is closed at the moment. We will not return and sooner wait for Withdean to reopen or go to The Stonehouse at Shoreham which is very good.

Very low moral about the staff and roast potatoes where dead even fresh ones cooked to death !! The vibe was not great and Guinness tasted awful !! I’ll try again in 10 years !! Note to big managers pay your staff more and improve moral happy staff = happy customers!!

The staff were SO lovely and friendly, nothing was too much for them and the food was pretty yummy. Beautiful potatoes and beautiful meat. Have been to a few different carveries and only came to this one because the one we usually go to was closed but this might become our favourite

The carvery may be simple, but it comes at a simple price. As someone who usually prefers fine dining, I always make sure to take my grandparents here, as they absolutely love it. Usually the food is hot and fresh, and I always leave after eating a few kilos of veg. Grace and Matt were lovely and attentive, the beef was particularly tender. Of course it’s no five star restaurant, but you’re not paying a five star price!

Terrible told the waitress potatoes were horrible and she went do I want some more ? Customer service? Thats a joke never eating again worst food peacehaven is much better . Surely you tell someone the food isn't up to scratch they should apologise and tell the chef due to other people complaining ?

Grace and Matt were wonderful! Many thanks 💛

Great food along with friendly staff. Great value for money. Will return.

Brilliant food lovely atmosphere Served by Grace excellent service would definitely return again

Great value for and drink and excellent staff.

Great atmosphere and great service.

Grace was excellent, very attentive and cheerful

My friend and myself visited for breakfast and we were thoroughly impressed by the choice of breakfast items and refill coffee all for a very reasonable price.The staff were friendly and helpful.. On the down side the car park was littered with rubbish and the interior of the pub was looking very tatty with peeling wallpaper and general paintwork looking shabby.. Could do with a facelift!

Wonderful servers, very friendly. Thank you especially to Jade and Gracie. Everyone is always happy to accommodate my extra needs which is so kind of them. And they all go out of their way to make sure you have a good time/meal whilst you are there. Such a lovely team!!

The Carvery was so dry and the 2 slices of beef I was given was so full of fat felt like I had chewing gum in my mouth seemed to me the chef who served me really didn't care about customer service. best thing about it was the dessert I would probably try again to get a better experience.

I’m a regular! Have a late lunch here several times a week. Excellent value and very prompt service. Well served always by Grace and Trinity 🤓

nice little pub and great value roast

Food was average for Stonehouse carvery. Been to many before. Service was the worst I've ever had waited 20 minutes for plates to be removed before our desserts, when it was wasn't that busy. Desserts were poor, rock hard pudding after being microwaved. Wouldn't return again.

We found the staff very friendly and the food enjoyable

We were made to leave today halfway through our meal due to a whole bunch of travellers disturbing the peace and police rudely asked us to leave immediately. We were there for my Grandads 70th birthday. A quiet family meal. It was so loud the time we did have there and then we were forcibly removed! I’d appreciate a refund!

Always polite and friendly. Always use to do work and have some lunch at a reasonable price.

Great breakfast for the money. Quick service for a morning break

Well the kids voted to come here ! , not my choice it was local and did set 2 course menu £11;49 . Tried using the order at table ap useless , use the staff . The place looks really sad , uncared for with peeling wall paper , sticky tables and menu flaking paint 😟 We ordered the carvery but should have checked the meats first a sad turkey no meat small piece of beef , and gammon , told no more freshly cooked meats would be served it was 6.30pm !!. Food was ok , unlimited ice cream machine was the real reason the kids wanted to come . Such a shame ,prime location with lots of potential sadly they don’t have clue . We won’t be returning.

Lovely food, amazing service by the wonderful Shaynie. Would definitely visit again!

service from the start was very enthusiastic, and knowledgable, pizza was amazing and came out way quicker than expected, thanks oren and grace for a lovely experience

Nice meal, excellent service by Shanie who was always available and couldn't have done more

Friendly welcome and service from Grace. Only negative was that the stuffing had run out and by the time it was replenished, we had nearly finished our food.