The Journeyman in South Bucks

As always the food was great and the service friendly. One little gripe though - with winter coming (it was pouring when we arrived) - it might be a good idea to have a few coat racks and umbrella stands as one enters the restaurant.

Very expensive for what it is food was mediocre. Had the lamb which was £28 was small and came with a salad expected a bit more. Chicken was over cooked. probably wont return there are other better restaurants nearby.

Excellent food and brilliant service, pricey but really enjoyed serval meals here. Buzzing atmosphere when full. Most people eating rather than a drinking pub. Would recommend if your in GX area. On the high street close to the park and station.

Had been wanting to try this restaurant for dinner for ages. I'm sorry to say we won't be coming back. Firstly the pizzas were off the menu as the oven was being cleaned (according to our waitress) my kids were upset as they had wanted to try them. The restaurant was empty and lucky it was, there was only one server who was doing her best and very polite however when the food arrived we wished we'd gone elsewhere. The pasta dish had no sauce and was dry and inedible so we sent it back, my sons burger was overcooked and burnt we sent this back without wanting another one cooked, he just ate the chips, and the sirloin was as dry as an old boot, we asked for rare, it was medium, and inedible no juices or flavour and tough. It is a shame as its a beautiful restaurant, but it needs to be consistent with its food and service.

Lovely and very personable staff who make you feel very welcome and if you ask about the history of the establishment they are more than willing to share with you the back story and historic photos. The food is fantastic. I recently sampled the Lebanese fries which were 10/10!!

Lovely bar and huge restaurant. Wide choice on menu and great with allergens. We had freshly cooked delicious food at reasonable prices and enjoyed it very much.

Came here with friends and had an enjoyable meal. The fish and chips is enormous. My cauliflower nourishing bowl was very good but could have done with more seasoning on the sweet potato. The mini desserts were quite big. The raspberru chocolate torte was lovely. Service with a smile too.

The pizza were ok but not very tasty they were hand made and put in a pizza fire oven but not very nice the pizza sauce needs to be sweet and salty not sure if I would go back quite expensive for what you get

This was my first visit to Journeyman, having driven past it a few times in Gerrards Cross. We opted to sit down for a Sunday lunch. Despite being given this menu, several items were off the menu. The service was very good and all courses were served in a timely manner.

We were a family party for 12, including adult children, celebrating a birthday. The second time we've done this. The space is interesting the atmosphere was good and the service was excellent - 12 starters arrived, hot where required, arrived together; and 12 main courses arrived together, not too soon but with no delay. The food was very good if basic pub fare, but ideal for our party - especially as gluten and lactose intolerances and vegan requirements were comfortably catered for. Recommended as an excellent alternative in an area quite well-served for restaurants.

Interesting space...huge and cavernous. Comfortable but not terribly "intimate", "warm" or "welcoming". Comfortable bar area but srvice is slow. Very boring menu - a great shame.. just standard pub chain fare. There are much better/more interesting places to eat in the area.

Happy to visit for the first time , table booking wasn’t essential as plenty of empty tables around but maybe it’s Monday evening .Very cheerful and helpful staff , very clean and tidy area.We decide to get some wooden oven pizzas it was great choice (can’t wait to come for the steak night ).Plenty of drinks to choose from ,a lot of very good quality wines(which I prefer) and very tasty cocktails .for dessert tiramisu and staters fried calamari .All very tasty . So definitely recommended , great place to come with friends ,family or couples . Thank You for Your hospitality

Our first visit to this nearly new restaurant on a cold night. There were few customers and few staff in this cold dim cavernous Art Deco room, partioned into bar and restaurant. The staff were pleasant and khelpful.The food was mediocre and presentation poor. The main lamb course looked unappetizing and was very greasy. The mussels were tasty. We decided not to have a dessert. The few customers present were very noisy. I understand this restaurant is popular amongst young clientele.

Fabulous food and staff would definitely recommend in the week when not so busy.Can be very busy at weekends not sure enough staff but food lovely and great atmosphere 👍

Our Second visit to The Journeyman in GX and it was almost as good as before. The art deco styling and décor, cleanliness, service, drinks and food were all very good, with decent large portions. We shared the large garlic flatbread with mozzarella topping between us and the small Fish & Chips was enough as a mains too. Only fault was that three of the dishes one of our friends wanted were all out of stock, which is not great at this time of year and perhaps needs a rethink on stocking up. It was a great experience and we will be back!

We dined for Christmas Day lunch with 4 of us, at first we were quite hesitant in booking given the reviews on here. But I am glad I paid no attention to them as we had an amazing meal and the service was brilliant! When we arrived we were greeted with a glass of fizz and shown to our table. From the minute we sat down the staff were so friendly and we didn’t have to ask for anything! We were constantly being checked on making sure everything was ok and our drinks were always topped up! The service wasn’t rushed, we took our time and just had the best Christmas Day lunch out! Thanks all for your hard work, we really appreciate it and will be back!

We went to this restaurant last Saturday overall experience not that great, we had to wait 50 minutes for our appetizers and then another 20 minutes for our mains. The food was quite good but its not worth the wait.

Good location but food is below average. Limited choice and not great quality. Unsettled stomach the next day - could be coincidence but I won't be going back.

We came for Sunday lunch, just a month after our last visit, and were bitterly disappointed both with the food and the attitude of senior staff. The servers 'on the floor' who seated us and brought our food and drinks were impeccably well mannered, but the woman we presumed to be a manager was not. The beef Sunday roast had sold out so two of us ordered the porchetta and one the vegetarian roast - but as the pie had been so unappetising last time we requested cauliflower cheese instead (cheaper for them!). We were told this was fine, but 20 minutes later were told there was no cauliflower cheese. The lady said there was no alternative so we should either pay the price of a vegetarian roast for a plate of vegetables, or have the pie. We asked if we could order something different but she refused, saying the plate was ready to be served. We took the pie. It was dry and inedible. The porchetta was also dry and with no gravy also inedible. We asked for some gravy and were asked 'why?', we said because it is dry and she shrugged, then brought gravy ten minutes later after we had again requested some. Nobody checked on us, and the woman who came to ask if we wanted desserts made it obvious she didn't want to be there, and basically rushed us out. We had been so impressed with his beautiful venue when it opened, and despite a few teething problems it has seemed a great place for family meals, drinks with friends, and Sunday lunches. But the slowness of service, quality of food, and attitude of management mean we will not be going back. The redeeming qualities are the young man and young last working in the restaurant who smiled, greeted us and said goodbye. They clearly work hard. As an aside, we had wanted to tip our waitress on the first visit with cash so she could keep what she had worked hard for, but were told it has to be on card - presumably so management can take a cut. Not impressed!

Excellent Sunday roast - beef and chicken - plus some good (possibly home made) ice cream. Service was friendly and professional. Good wine list - Rioja especially.

Regularly pop in for a few drinks and enjoy it. The staff are great and the customer service for me can't be faulted. Particular praise goes to Daisy, Colm, Liv and Frank who are always polite and courteous. Great asset to the area.

Hello, we came here for dinner. I had pizza and my pizza was probably 6/10. It was berry dry, had hardly any meat on and hardly any cheese. I wouldn’t have pizza again here if I came back. The service also seemed a bit slow.

We went here on Sunday for a pre-booked table and Sunday lunch with friends. Whoever redesigned and fitted-out this ex-M&S site did a great job. The *new* Art Deco style sits well in the high street in Gerrards Cross with cool lighting and the choice of warm mustard leather seating colours, warm wood furniture and floors and deco style lighting with cute plants really works well and gives a nice ambience. There is a large and well-stocked bar in front of the restaurant, serving locally made ales, which is also a nice touch. The large kitchen is open-style which is always good to see and adds more visual interest. Menu was expansive, with a very good range of different food choices, but we all opted for the roasts (slight shame all the specials were already gone by Sunday lunchtime but it was busy). Our starters (calamari & scotch egg) were both tasty and very well cooked. The roasts were equally lovely, served on large plates with generous portions of quality meats and vegetables and all very tasty. Service from the two waitresses who attended our table was excellent and attentive without being overly so and we were left to enjoy our table for 3hours+ Highly recommended and we will be going back - This is how to do a contemporary restaurant and bar!

This is a message to the management/owners. We've been to a number of your chain's restaurants and all very top notch and consistent. We were excited by the Journeyman coming to our village, but wow - what a shock. Meals were inedible. The huge Yorkshire puddings were old and piled up in a corner before serving. The chef must have got confused with the Pork and the Chicken as one was burned to a cinder and the other almost got off the plate and walked. The front of house staff, particularly the manageress, were excellent throughout though. very professional and reassured us that this will change. Excellent front of service let down by a head chef that probably cooked this all in his bedroom the night before taking the day off. It would take a public announcement of a complete kitchen reboot before we ever considered coming back. Sad days for what should have been a goto place.

Whilst at first glance the decor is inviting & the staff are friendly it’s a shame the same can not be said about the food. Visited this venue for a roast dinner last Sunday & was really disappointed. The beef was chewy & overcooked, the...

Well appointed bar and love the art deco style, but I popped in for coffee today and was surprised how dirty it was. Two tables needed cleaning and one chair cushion was soiled. My coffee cup was dirty round the rim and needed to be...

Staff friendly and great looking restaraunt Food was good but cappuccinos very poor more like cold milky drink with a bit of coffee No froth After saying to waitress she said sorry, even though 1 was not touched at all but carried on to charge...

Good food but we had to wait too long for our food to arrive even though it was sitting on the pass for nearly 5 minutes. Desserts were also slow and my husband’s coffee. The waitress was lovely but probably inexperienced and the place seemed...

Lovely new and spaceous venue and in general, the food was reasonably good (when it finally arrived), and we felt reasonably priced, plus the staff came across as friendly. However, the table service in general was just too slow. It took 40min before our starters...

This place isn't somewhere you can sit and have a relaxing conversation over dinner - it is just so busy and so noisy. The decor is great but it's one big space with busy bar and busy eating area. This feedback probably wouldn't bother the...

To round off a special occasion weekend,we decided to pop to the journeyman for a bite to eat this Sunday evening.Wanted to try this place out for quite a long time now as the reason it attracted me was because of the gluten free options.The...

Buzzy bar/restaurant with very helpful staff. I was unsure what food would be like but was very pleasantly surprised. We shared starters - chorizo scotch egg and tomato and mozzarella - very tasty. It was the usual standard fare menu but had good specials and...

We have dined at The Journeyman on three separate occasions since it opened. Each time we gave it the benefit of the doubt that it was a new restaurant, with a new team of staff, who lacked experience. Last night was our third visit and...

The restaurant itself is like a huge warehouse and reminded me of a BHS canteen. There are a few dividers but my initial view was that it’s a bit of dining hall effect. The staff were fine. The food was really disappointing. I had avocado...

I recently visited The Journeyman for a Sunday Roast to celebrate my birthday. We’d been eagerly awaiting its opening and had been told it was from the same company as “The Beech House.” I was pleasantly surprised on arrival that it was a much more...

Very poor. Came here for Sunday lunch to celebrate my grandmothers birthday. Food is very over priced. Took a long time for someone to come and take our food order. My uncle had the sausage and mash it was cold and had very little mash...

Nice staff, nice outside dining, iced latte was awful so strong and bitter, I opted for a shot of vanilla and it was so sweet it could have taken the enamel off my teeth so I left it, my burger was ok, looked great but...

We really enjoyed our evening at The Journeyman. Tastefully decorated to reflect the building's Art Deco design, quite a large open space but not noisy as some have said here. Everyone's food was excellent. There was plenty of choice for all our differing dietary requirements....

Visited twice, once to eat (dinner) once just for a drink. The restaurant area was busy and loud, very loud, unbearably loud, louder than a sixth form canteen. I'm not sure if the design of the building accentuates it but it is deafening and NOT...

Have been here quite a number of times now since opening for eating and just drinking. Love the exterior, front area of the patio and bar area but just feel that proportionally they should have made the internal bar area bigger because in the evenings...

First visit here. The lovely lady who seated us and served us, Erin, was fabulous! Thanks Erin. Great service. Food was ok, no more than ok though. For the price I was expecting a little more wow. However it was hot and edible. May go...

Lovely staff who were as attentive as they were engaging . Food arrive almost too soon, on barely warm plates which meant the food was only just warm and went cold very quickly. Such a shame. Quite noisy and they were not hugely busy so...

We went for a family lunch on Sunday to celebrate my husband's 70th birthday. I spoke to Jamie to enquire about making a booking and he was very helpful. He showed us a couple of possible seating areas. As there was going to be 20...

I went to the opening and was disappointed by the wines available by the glass. I’ve been for dinner once and asked for the burger with everything except the bun and it came back in its own without cheese or trimmings .. probably because the...

Great expectations and decided to try the venue as meeting up with a friend for lunch. First impressions good, staff very friendly & helpful and extensive menu. However the industrial fit out inside does not create a convivial & welcoming restaurant and the food unfortunately...

Went with adult family to celebrate a birthday and the atmosphere was really buzzy. New restaurants take a little time to "bed in" this being only 2.5 weeks in, but we received excellent service with the same attentive server all evening whose happiness to be...

Got off to a bad start by being given a very dirty table . Staff were looking miserable. Starter mezze was OK but not good value. Main spaghetti bolonese was very watery and not not and generally unfit . They did not charge for the...

The vegan Sunday roast is not the best. It has fresh-cut beetroot and a mushroom on top. Definitely need a better vegan roast as well as improving the current one and also more vegan vegetarian options on the menu.

What a beautiful restaurant. What a shame the food & service don't stand up as well. Boring food, tasteless & poorly put together. Wilted salad full of chillies, dried out sauces, no salt. Bar staff a bit lost - corked wine! Good garlic pizza bread...

We turned up on a Saturday without a booking and were seated quickly. Within moments a waiter asked if we wanted a drink and gave us the menus. There were ample staff to serve the tables and we had about 6 different people throughout our...

We wanted to like it, but we didn’t. We stopped for after dinner drinks and nibbles on Saturday night. The place is specious and well decorated. Walked in, there were tables that looked free, but couldn’t be sure as there were still glasses with drinks...

I love this building it’s incredible inside and outside. The menu is extensive and easy to navigate. However, the service lets it down big time. It’s my second visit since it opened. The first visit it took us several attempts to make a booking. Website...

Lovely restaurant, very spacious with friendly and welcoming staff. Good range of food on the menu, generous portions, piping hot food. The only thing that let's it down was the service was extremely slow. We had 2 courses that took 2 hours.

Great atmosphere in GX staff we’re working really hard to please everybody second time we came really enjoyed our early evening there. Met some friends as we were checking in and we were expertly changed to a bigger table. Our granddaughters birthday was made really...

This is my second visit and second review. I was anxious that going back a second time with someone else might be a mistake - but it wasn’t. It was as good as the first time and my cousin was also very impressed. The food,...

A really lovely evening, staff were so friendly and welcoming, attentive and professional, the venue and ambience were spectacular and the food was superb. Jamie, the manager came over to us and chatted - he really took time out to sit and talk with us....

Shockingly bad food and service. We went for brunch. My sourdough toast was black and solid. Poached eggs were hard boiled. Plate 1 was replaced but the second offering was identical. My friend's blueberry pancakes were pretty absent of blueberries. All of our food was...

Was interested to try this new restaurant out and was not disappointed. The menu was very varied and prices were reasonable in today’s market. The service was excellent and very professional. We definitely will go back and would highly recommend.

Nice venue, a little noisy. Food was ok. Best bit was Rachel our server. She had a lovely smile and nothing was too much trouble! Thank you Rachel!

Nice place just what GX needs … lively atmosphere with friendly staff! Cocktails bit disappointing , mine was flat , too sweet & lacking that expectation kick ….! Giving how busy the place was one could overlook that but then … shocking … inside vaping...

Food was a bit dissapointing given the price. The scotch egg starter is good -possibly worth the 30 minute wait (might be a little overpriced given that it is in the end, a scotch egg). The Russo prawns didn’t come out their shell very easily...

Lovely decor, friendly service, good food and drinks, lively atmosphere. We enjoyed our visit and will return. Would recommend

Newly opened. Lovely style. Nice staff. Good to have a new place to go. My meal was terrible- creamy chicken pasta- totally dry and not a good taste. Friend had a very dry burger. Starters were ok Fingers crossed it gets better

I know its new ,however the service was clumsy, slow . They should train their staff . The menu looks good but the product served is very average , Bruschetta is simple , the bread was burnt ! Spaghetti vongale with butter and cream ?...

popped in just after opening - heard it was way too busy in the opening weekend and the kitchen was too busy - and place was noisy. I had breakfast - about 10am - was a lovely English breakfast - service was great - and...

A welcome addition to the GX food scene. The decor is very art deco - which is lovely and there’s an open kitchen. It’s a big restaurant, so not somewhere to go for a quiet meal. But of an evening, it likely will have a...

Initially went for drink on first Friday. Very busy and SO LOUD just wasn't enjoyable. No soft furnishings or anything to dampen the noise level (low ceilings don't help either). Expensive for everything. Probably not a regular visitor here unless they review prices 🤔

Have been in twice since it opened last week. Friday night, there were about 60 people in the bar making a lot of noise which went directly through to the restaurant behind, like another reviewer we couldn't here each other speak. We couldn't wait to...

A welcome addition to the food choices in GX Tried this new restaurant (where the old M&S used to be) for my daughter's 13th birthday. Overall it was excellent, with Erin and the other staff all brilliant. The roast was great, the steak was high...

Highly recommend this new bar / restaurant. We went on opening day for an 18th Birthday lunch, service was excellent, menu extensive and reasonably priced. Well done to all for making this happen, a much needed addition to GX.

Unacceptable NOISE - impossible to have a conversation over dinner or hear what the excellent staff were saying.