The Forager in Clackmannanshire

Waited way too long for food and were very underwhelmed with Both presentation and standard. Just very average at best. It was also very cold where we were sitting in the booths at the back. Service was exceptionally slow both for food to arrive and clearing the table. We had to ask for them to clear the table. We will certainly not be returning. All food was overcooked in particular the fish, which was more batter than fish and burnt. Portion sizes for starters and desserts we felt rather on the small size. Overall exceptionally disappointed. Not good value for money. Perhaps stick to being a pub and don’t bother with the food.

We were so looking forward to trying the food here. However, I really wish we had checked the reviews on trip advisor before coming along. We ordered burgers, 2 of which were raw (pink) in the middle (one got sent back, the other didn’t get eaten) The sticky toffee pudding was awful, it’s our favourite desert to have but the toffee sauce was so grainy it was like eating a spoon of sugar. It wasn’t pleasant. Doesn’t the chef do taste testing on his food?? We certainly wouldn’t go back and wouldn’t recommend. We got a lovely £4 taken off our bill for the uncooked burgers! What poor customer service.

We had a delicious meal here and took advantage of the October set menu deal. Beautiful interior, friendly staff and excellent food, we’ll be back!

Superb meal of steak perfectly cooked as requested and peppercorn sauce was off the scale with great chips, also fish and chips was superb with two drinks came to just over £50 well worth a visit and we will be back!!! Also welcome was great and whole atmosphere and look of the Forager was very welcoming and friendly.

Attractive interior, small menu but daily specials, good selection of drinks. Chose the veg burger and special Parmesan chicken which came with spaghetti. The latter was really nice, perfectly done and not dry. Pasta had a nice tomato taste & portion size was pretty big and filling. The veg burger was good, though for £15 lacked sufficient garnish (only lettuce) - would suggest pickle, tomato, etc. Chips were nice. Service was friendly, perhaps a little slow waiting for table clearing at end but this is not uncommon I find in many restaurants.

Had a pre-booking for Sunday lunch. Servers were all lovely. Told up front that food might be delayed because they had a table of 10 that was going to be give priority. Ordered 2 Sunday chicken roasts, two ciabattas and a burger from the kid's menu. Food arrived 1hr 20minutes later. Ciabatta bread was not fresh at all, fillings were ok. The pea soup (delicious) came in the smallest cup ever, about 6-7 tablespoons at most. We were given the desert menu but then completely forgotten about until we decided to just pay and leave. All in all disappointed and would not be back.

Good food and service. Excellent spot for something special. Any minor niggles quickly rectified by friendly and helpful staff. Highly recommended

Average at best, potatoes were cold and the mustard sauce was pretty tasteless but the chicken was well cooked. Overall my dish was not too bad but not worth £23. The starters were pricey for the size of portions. The chicken burger was definitely not worth £17, no salad, one (chicken thigh battered out) and coated in under seasoned and tasteless coating, didn’t even reach the sides of the small bun! Second chance visit for us as the first wasn’t great. Won’t be back

Myself and my husband had dinner here and it was so delicious we both had the Pea Soup it had a lovely vibrant colour and tasted delicious, I then opted for the Lamb Tagine which was so flavoursome I didn’t have much room left for dessert but I’m so glad I had the sticky toffee pudding which had lovely little chewy nuggets of dates in they really added something to the taste and texture. The service was lovely too. Keep doing what you’re doing guys we will be back.

Exactly what you would expect from an establishment in the Dean Banks Group, excellent food and great service, most enjoyable.

What a disappointing lunch to-day. We have been before and enjoyed the food and friendliness but to-day was something else. Very, very slow service and although food that was served was in parts good the 90 minutes wait for main course is not acceptable here or anywhere else. Staff blamed it on a big upstairs party and an understaffed kitchen. Our invited friends from Australia were not impressed and neither were we and the 25% off the bill was not enough to remedy the long wait. Will not visit again.

We came for the tasting menu , everything from start to finish was 10/10, the food was excellent!! Service was quick but we did book the earliest sitting. Was nice to meet Dean also. The lobster in mirrin butter was my fave! Would deffo come to another one of the tasting menu nights. 😁

This place seems to be seriously understaffed and the service is odd. We waited a very long time for drinks and food, it was also mostly empty. I ordered a champagne and the glass was half full, food was nice enough but seriously slow. Very overpriced and that is with some items left off of the bill. Weird atmosphere. I doubt it will survive but I wouldn't return.

We booked here for Easter Sunday lunch several month as ago We arrived on time were shown to a table and that’s when it went horribly wrong 2 hours later we had 3 starters 6drinks And nothing else We were told ours was next it was being plated up and then they had Wi-Fi issues 🙈 We walked out ( they didn’t charge us for what we had ) Wouldn’t go back service awful no accountability serving staff ignoring you We were on holiday and luckily for us won’t need to ever go back ! Thanks for spoiling the last day of our leave !

My wife and I went for lunch there today 19th March 24 the food was good,service good and pleasant friendly staff. Well worth a visit

We went last night for my birthday/ pre mother's day, it was really disappointing. The leek and cheese starter bread is amazing and good value, other than that it was poor. My son and I had sausage and mash, a pencil thin tiny Cumberland sausage, on top of a slimy, again tiny, pile of mash. Slimy gravy and small scoop of onions barely decipherable. I have rarely been served such a paltry meal, and no vegetables too be seen. My husband had chicken burger and chips, which was a decent portion, but he said it was boring and tasteless. Dessert, I had sticky toffee pudding, this was a good size but hard and tastes burnt underneath, the chocolate fondant that my son had however was a roaring success. We won't be back, this was our second visit, last time was a couple of years ago. It has either gone down hill or maybe a bad night? However for the just short of £100 bill, of which consisted of the already added on gratuity of 10%, it was a massive disappointment. I wouldn't eat somewhere that forces you to top up the servers pay, even if the experience was rubbish. I will tip if it is deserved, on this occasion it wasn't. Staff were disinterested and just not very nice.

High quality food in a high quality restaurant. Good selection of beers/wines served by efficient and knowledgeable staff and it's also dog friendly. What more do you need. Makes a holiday when you find quality

Service very slow, it took an hour and threequarters to have lunch. The starter was passable but not filling. The best beef pie was almost uneatable as most of the meat was gristle and the sweet, sticky toffee pudding, was the only part of the meal which was acceptable. All in all not recommended and will certainly not be back. If Mr Banks is putting his name to this, his reputation will soon suffer. After our visit, friends who live locally told us that the place has deteriorated badly since he took over.

We were there for the Dean Banks 5 course tasting menu, which was amazing! The food was spectacular as was the wine paired with it. It was nice to see Dean serving the dishes and explaining them. I am glad we booked for an early sitting as the service did slow as the night went on. To be honest it didn’t bother us as it nicely spaced the courses out. This will be my 3rd visit now and I’ve never been disappointed with the food, however the service seems to be a common theme. Get that right and what a place!

Dine in | Lunch | £40–50 I went with my friend from Edinburgh to try this place. I had emailed to ask if they had a gluten free menu. Returned email said yes. Waitress was lovely. I could have soup, no bread. I could have pate, no bread or oat cakes. I opted for beetroot and goats cheese salad for the starter. A dozen or so very small bits of beetroot, dotted around the plate was a mousse which I presume was the goats cheese. Doesn't say mousse on the  menu it was Tasteless. Main meal was Forager chicken with mash and haggis. No haggis for me which is acceptable but nothing to replace it. Well not that I could see. The mash was so watery it spread out on the plate like a thick-ish soup. I phoned today February 15th, to say I was coming up next week and that I didn't want to give a negative review. The 'front of house' lady who would not give her name got rather annoyed with me. I thought that I would be given an apology with the promise of a complimentary coffee next time. Not so, she made excuses upon excuses. She tried to belittle my concerns. Boiling it down to having no GF bread. Not so. She also accused me of being rude. She did say,  " they would TRY and get GF bread/oatcakes" The cost of this paultry food was extortion. Very overpriced. I give honest and accurate reviews. Hopefully they will change their attitude towards GF folk. I hope your visit (if you go) is better than mine.

It’s indeed a pleasure to find a country pub with no downsides. Our family enjoy exploring rural inns and hotels especially for Roast dinners. The Forager has to top the list so far. Tasteful decor and a friendly welcoming smile leads to high food expectations and we were not disappointed. Beautifully presented and delicious. Many thanks to the Foragers team for a thoroughly enjoyable experience. And the house lager “Auch” Is well worth a try.

Family roast at 4.00pm only 3 roast chicken left, which was overcooked, and the beef was warm rare and very tough. Service was poor, waited more than 20 minutes for a jug of water that didn't arrive. The disappointing concern was that after complaining, no chief came to us for feedback. Instead he was standing at the bar with 4 other staff members. This is not a one off disappointing meal but 4 now in the last 3 months. Pauline

I really like the ambience of the Forager, it’s a beautiful space. Have been a few times as it’s local and pleasant. Went with large party and were upstairs which was fine to start with v attentive waitress but then she seemed to go off shift and we were pretty much forgotten about for a while- given desert menus but no follow up to take our order for a significant period of time. Steaks and burgers weren’t available on the menu which was disappointing as I would expect plenty of those to be in stock as v popular items. The rib roast of beef was nice but the gravy was exceptionally sweet and I would have preferred the option to pour my own rather than have it in a gravy I didn’t particularly enjoy. By no means a bad experience but just a few little details leave it being a great experience. Could really do with someone manning upstairs more as it tends to be ‘ forgotten’ and as I left I had to ask for the bill to be delivered to the remaining party upstairs as I was in a rush to be somewhere. There were a few members of staff congregated at the entrance so unsure why we weren’t attended to more? ( initial waitress - lady from HK originally was fab tho !)

Very nice food and a lovely relaxed environment. The staff are very good. We've been here multiple times as we are local. Always good food, although portions have occasionally been small. However, the last time was Sunday roast beef, and that was a huge portion! A nice selection occasionally drinks.

Had a lovely Sunday roast today. Restaurant is beautiful and the staff were super friendly and attentive. Will be back to try out the mid week menu.

The meet and greet guy was pretty silent and not very welcoming. Not a great start to our lunch out with friends! The table we were shown to had been set for 5 and we were a 4 - obviously not the table we’d booked. We placed our orders after a fair delay but our glasses for water and the water itself were a long time in coming. One of our ordered starters was apparently not up to chef’s standards and so came well behind the others due to being done again. My main apparently suffered the same problem which was almost believable, if chef was having a bad day, except that it was the Sunday lunch roast! Hardly cooked to order. I was delivered an order of truffle fries to ‘nibble on’ while I waited for my delayed main. The roast of the day plateful, including side veg dishes, was a huge portion so to send me fries to snack on first rather than take something off the bill for our double inconvenience mystifies me. The waiting staff were lovely and tried their best, but for the price we were disappointed with the food delays. By the time we were expecting our main course food the restaurant was pretty empty so volume of demand couldn’t have been the problem. All in all - disappointing! We’ve been gifted a voucher for here so not too hopeful about our experience then!

The quality of the food was excellent on the whole. I had salmon which was beautifully cooked and the caper butter sauce was lovely. The portion size was good but the potatoes were too hard. My fellow diners both had the loin of venison, potato rosti and celeriac puree. The food was delicious though the potato dish was not what I think of as rosti. However, the main gripe was that the portions were very small indeed and this made the plates very overpriced at £31.95. We spoke to the manager who said that the portion sizes were correct with 4 ounce pieces of venison. I looked up some venison recipes online when we got home and the suggested weights of venison for one varied from 5 1/4 ounces to 7 ounces. As my friend put it, the meat was finished in two or three mouthfuls. The weights were included for the steaks and this 4 oz weight should be included on the menu so diners know what to expect. We each ordered 125 ml of Malbec and I thought the wine was OK but nothing special. Each glass cost £8.20 making the cost of a bottle at £49.20. The service was very friendly though a little slow. 10% was added to our bill making the cost of three mains, one pudding, three small glasses of wine and a pudding come in at just over £144 for three people.

My wife and I decided to give this “new” restaurant a go as we had eaten here when it was “The Inn At Dollar”. I don’t wish to be unkind but to be honest, it didn’t live up to my expectation as an elevated eating...

10/10 for me , the turkey roast dinner was the best roast dinner I’ve had in a restaurant and also the passion fruit crème brûlée was one of the best desserts I’ve had.

Popped in for lunch on Saturday. Really good food, very pleasant service and excellent value for money. Food took a little too long to arrive at the table and the restaurant was a little bit quiet but these were minor gripes.

No gluten free. No range of vegetarian. Where were the vegetable accompaniments? Only one thin stringy bit of carrot with main courses. Spilled coffee. Slow service. What's to like? The Beef pie and chicken dishes. That's it!

Excellent food and service in a lovely bar / restaurant, spotlessly clean and lovely decor, good atmosphere too We had an itison deal and the menu on offer including a special was fantastic value We both had the goats cheese with beetroot an I had...

Quite disappointed overall , I liked the look of the place but the quality of the food is not what I expected, to be honest the first thing that disappointed me was the menù, there only was a paper menu and nothing on the table...

Staying in the area and popped in for a drink on Sunday afternoon to suss the place out before our reservation on the Wednesday night. Greeted straight away by a lovely gentleman who cleared a table so we could have drinks. All staff we dealt...

Great bar menu, outstanding food, Fish Bites and Leek and Cheese Loaf for starters both excellent, Beef Pie and Wild Mushroom Ragout for mains, both superb, the Ragout was very tasty, full of flavour. No room for dessert, the portions were quite generous. This is...

Great gastro pub from the friendly welcome from staff, to the food, was excellent all good quality made with local ingredients, service was 5 star.

Came for Sunday lunch plenty of vegetables very large Yorkshire pudding and good portion of beef the staff were efficient and knowledgeable about the wine the restaurant is very well decorated clean and comfortable we will definitely be back

Calm and inviting space for relaxation! And good food. Sommelier was outstanding and we had good banter! Terrible weather outside and a break from the wild inside. Brilliant! I

We were impressed by the atmosphere and decor on our first visit to The Forager. Service was slow to start - we had to call someone over after 15 minutes to take our drinks order - but improved afterwards. From the rather limited menu the...

We live close by and decided to try this place for Sunday lunch. It exceeded all expectations. Lovely and modern yet cosy decor inside. Very attentive staff. Food was superb. Roast topside was excellent and quite a generous portion. Venison burger was delicious and came...

We live locally and have been in several times since The Forager re-opened. The first time we went it seemed an improvement on the previous ownership, however, the last few times we've been we have been very disappointed. The portions are very small, the food...

Food was good but service lacked finesse and the price was fully twice what you pay for an equivalent meal in Edinburgh or St Andrews. Around £180 for dinner for two.