The Mallard Harvester in Dacorum

We were served yesterday by Julie, she was friendly & helped to make our meal out enjoyable!

Update 28th Oct. Another lovely meal. James the waiter was great, particularly as the place was packed. The food is great for this type of formulaic restaurant. Good, basic popular pub grub. Highly experienced and friendly staff, so welcoming and efficient. Amazing value, especially if you subscribe to offers in their app or online. Not fine dining but thoroughly good value and highly recommended.

Food was delicious and Our waitress Linda was really attentive. Thank you

I'm American so take this will a little grain of salt but loved the atmosphere of the establishment but the food could use a bit more seasoning and spice. Would recommend to first-time foreigners

Lovely service, lovely food, service was good, very quick and ensured we were ok throughout. Lovely waiter, lovely food! Thank you!

Great for a few drinks before a train journey! I was served by Zahra at the bar and she was fantastic. Very polite, smiley and professional.

Had a really good experience here when we stopped by for brunch. Our waiter, Lucy, was very friendly and welcoming and made great recommendations, taking into account all of our dietary requirements. Look forward to coming back some time soon!

Lovely service from Julie as usual helpful about nee menu

Julie was fabulously helpful, and helped us figure out the app! Thank you 💛

Food was fab, Julie was a great waitress! Thanks Harvester Hemel!

Julie very helpful and friendly love meal

I had such a positive experience here! Staff was great especially Julie who was serving our table. Very kind, helpful and a good sense of humour! Really enjoyed the food, good portion sizes, fun selection of sauces and salads as well. Got a discount through downloading their app.

Outstanding service, Shelly gave my daughter an ice cream with a candle for her birthday, really nice in general very good service.

Shelley was a lovely host, very friendly and personable! Great food, fast service and lovely restaurant

Very friendly staff and a great menu food was excellent

To be honest i had one the best blue ribeye stake in the area

We had a lovely brunch, great service from Lucy, who went out of her way to make our meal very enjoyable. i would highly recommend.

Great brunch, great atmosphere. Our waitress, Lucy, was very friendly and helped us with any dietary requirements. Will definitely return!

Came in today for breakfast. Service from Lucy was fantastic. She was very attentive and knew the menu very well. Well done!

Great brunch, great atmosphere. Our waitress, Lucy, was very friendly and helped us with any dietary requirements. Will definitely return!

we had a lovely brunch, great service from Lucy, who went out of her way to make sure our experience was perfect. Would highly recommend.

The food was excellent and had great service from Linda

Food was good and Shelly was great.

Linda was great and very attentive. Superstar

Family friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Our server Shelley was great and so helpful and looked after us. She couldn’t do enough to help

Waitress never smile but was polite enough very nice atmosphere

Quick service, nice friendly staff. All you can eat salad bar. Plenty of parking available. Good menu selection that has recently been updated.

Always good food and friendly service

Wouldn't change a thing! Fantastic!

Avoid on deliveroo. Order arrived stone cold and missing two pots of gravy. Refunded £9 which just about covers the fees and delivery so £39 spent on freezing cold inedible food for a birthday treat after a day at hospital. Fab ending.

Quick service food was excellent seated a large group on a Saturday easily

They charged me £1 for cheese!!!! Cheese?! It’s ridiculous I’ve never been charged for cheese in my life. You go to any restaurant and they just grate the cheese for you, I asked for them just to sprinkle some cheese and they put it into a pot and they have charged me a £1. This is scandalous!!!

Came earlier this evening and was helped by a lovely lady, named Julie. She was very helpful when I was waiting at the salad cart for some of the items to be topped up. She asked me what items I would like, and brought them out specially for me. She was great at recommending dishes on the new menu, which we thoroughly enjoyed. She was speedy, and efficient. She always had a smile on her face. Thank you Julie and the Harvester.

Julie was wonderful - she help me so much due to me having an allergy to dairy …

Julie was fabulous! My sister in law has a dairy allergy and she was brilliant in making sure everything was ok. The service food and atmosphere was top notch!

Great service! thank you so much Julie for your continuous help. We were a nightmare table with many requests but no request was too big or small! Thank you again!

Linda and all the staff made our visit the best

Amazing breakfast, the bacon was especially good! Thanks anya for great service too.

Good food, good price, friendly staff.

unfortunately both salads were missing from the two meals. the food itself was great quality. it was well packaged but over 30 minutes late. I do appreciate that it is Friday and bound to be very busy. I don't think I would order Harvester as take away again. It is much better to go to the restaurant.

I didn’t get my order, and the customer service are taking longer time to get back to me. This is so unfair

Love the new menu brilliant service loved our waitress Julie she was very helpful answering all our questions 10/10

I'm writing this primarily due to our server Zara. It was really busy and you were out of chicken, which usually would not be great news, but she handled it brilliantly, made great alternate suggestions as well. It was incredibly busy, but we didn't feel rushed or that she was overly stressed. We were debating desert, but one of our party didn't want a normal sized one, so we had thought about leaving, but she suggested the mini desert and it went down brilliantly. Fantastic service, where she had multiple tables, but we were made to be feel like we had her full attention whenever she was serving us.

Great meal for the price. Love the salad bar which was full ( unlike others I've been to)

Very nice. Food all cooked perfectly and our waitress was very nice.

A big thanks to Julie!! She was really fabulous! Made us feel really welcome and we had a great time. Make sure you ask for her next time you’re visiting the Harvester. Thank you!

excellent burger, loaded fries and tenders. many thanks

Julie was amazing tonight so helpful and will definitely come again just cos of her!

Julie was absolutely fantastic tonight! So helpful and welcoming. A real asset to your team.

We came to eat after a day out at whipsnade zoo, 11 of us and a baby for my mother in laws birthday, all in all a great meal! The food was top standard at a cheap price, We truly enjoyed the visit, great atmosphere, lovely waitress handled everything well as we ordered ALOT of food haha! THANKYOU VERY MUCH Definitely recommend!

perfect hangover breakfast, cheers

Food was nice, a good choice of dishes, our meals were good. Only slight issue was one of our group had steak and asked for medium however it was definitely rare. We had mains and desserts and the desserts were amazing. Generous portions all round. Great table service, our waitress was very friendly and helpful. The atmosphere was a bit noisy, especially with children being allowed to run around the place. Definitely down to the parents. But once the offenders left, it was much nicer. I would come back but maybe lunchtime during the week when it may be a bit quieter.

Lovely experience at Harvester last night. Food was excellent and staff were very friendly, we was served by Sara who looked after us all night :)

Nice warm, fresh, quick food and drinks. Waiter was friendly.

It was a great experience at the restaurant with the kids. The staff was attentive and look after our table nicely. I will be returning soon, we really loved the barbecue chicken wings.

When we arrived, the greeting lady said there would be a wait as the system had gone down so we expected things to be a bit slow, however, the food was served quickly and was delicious and very hot. The waitress was so lovely and we couldn’t fault the service at all. The price was very reasonable, we ate from the special menu and there was a wide variety to chose from. We have eaten at many different Harvesters over the years but this was our best ever experience.

It was great. Anya was nice and attentive, great service. The food service was quick and the staff was very friendly. 10/10 would recommend

Starting off when we came in we ordered food, got denied of one salad bowl for a child which shouldn't be fair. The food came quick but the chips were awful, they looked anemic and like they weren't cooked. The staff were quite friendly but we noticed some of the stuff stuck out with rudeness and ignorance.

Popped in for some dinner the other week and it was great. Quick service and super helpful. Our server Joe was incredibly attentive and delivered excellent service. Thank you.

Had a lovely breakfast plenty of food which was tasty and hot, waitress was very welcoming and didn’t wait long either Thank you

amazing ultimate breakfast, many thanks

Been here a few times now and the food has always been very good

8 of us had a lovely meal here and sat down around 530pm on a Sunday evening. The food was excellent and our server was prompt, polite and friendly. Like most Harvesters now, make sure you enter you car reg on the terminal as you go in or you will receive a hefty parking charge as the restaurant is next door to the railway station. You are now given a salad bowl by the server. Strangely though we were told that we could not access the salad cart until after we had received our mains? Previously you could help yourself to a bowl and the salad cart as soon as you had ordered. We did question this and after our server spoke to the manager we were told they would make an exception on this one occasion and we all had salad with our starter. However £190 inc tip for 8 covers/ 3 courses plus drinks was quite reasonably priced.

HBH family lunch. There was a long wait before even getting drinks ordered. In the end we ran out of time, so no desserts. Carla was called to assist and was incredibly helpful regarding allergies. Good value good food but busy. Also very dark and noisy ambiance - difficult for the hard of hearing. Returned for lunch the next week; Very quiet, quick service, good food.

Carla worked so hard serving our table, which at times was challenging 😂. Kids loved their food and well stocked salad bar!!

Came here last weekend. It's been a long time since I been here now, I know why? and the food was still terrible. The service was slow , walk in there, and there was a group of waitness standing around salad stand, near sitting booth. We asked for our starters and mains to come out together, and our starters were burnt and overcooked. Came out first, no mains we had to flag service. My Ribs was small, not cooked, no flavouring, no one came ask if we were ok couldn't eat. Second meal Ribeye steak was still pink for well-done. It was very tough to cut, and pepper corn sauce was watery for the money I paid out. It was a load of rubbish food. I won't be going back.

Our waiter Joseph was attentive and curious. The food came out in good time and was lovely. Salad var kept topped up and fresh. Lovely service from waiter and great food.

Food was fantastic, our waiter Joseph went above and beyond to make our time truly enjoyable!

Once again items missing from order, this has happened several times and won’t be ordering again form Harvester

The only thing better than the great service was the Excellent food.

Amazing service, Linda and Julie are always happy to help and make the experience enjoyable

Julie was amazing very friendly helpful and went out of her way. Made our visit easy and pleasant. Lovely food thank you

Julie was polite and helpful. We always have a great experience here.

We come here all the time Julie and Linda that work as waitresses are always so helpful,kind ,funny and make our experience amazing every time

Lovely evening meal with a friend. Shame we had to sit under the speaker music a bit loud so struggled to chat

Lovely meal & brilliant service from Lauren

Great customer service especially from Julie when dealing with Children’s allergies.

Julie was our server and was extremely helpful and friendly

Really happy with our visit. The chicken was tender and well cooked, the salad was exceptional. Very fresh and good selection. Restaurant was clean and friendly. I couldn't ask for more.

Lovely food, great staff, clean place

Wonderful visit, our waitress was fabulous!

Twice we’ve tried going for breakfast, twice it’s never open at 9. If you don’t open at 9 don’t advertise this. Give up going here for breakfast.

Really good food is always cooked well Here and I love the salad option Staff are always friendly Free parking can normally get a table here No problem and normally have really good midweek deals online

Average meal that was not very hot. Party of 9 not overly impressed

Pleased that they changed an incorrect order without any fuss. Kind of the waitress to actually apologise. Would use again anyway.

jacket potato cold. chicken very dry. both hard to chew, and digest, sawdust. carrot salad!

Cozy atmosphere, food was fairly good, ladies toilet was out of action so had to use disabled toilet, which had a queue.

For the first time in a few visits, my jacket potato was edible. Not everything that we ordered was correct, but the server was very apologetic. Waited a long time for our take out desert and had to chase. Overall, though, it was a good experience. I have given service 4 star, as any issue we had was delt with well.

Fantastic time today at The Mallard. Hard to believe it's only 4.1 stars (June 2024). We were served by the wonderful Linda, who made sure our guest experience was top notch! Can honestly say this is the best harvester we've been to in a really long time. Service (with a smile) was excellent and the food was cooked to perfection; you can tell the kitchen team work well together and brilliant to see enough staff at such a busy time. Best salad bar going with a different items each side; something you don't always see these days in Harvester. We will definitely return.

We were served by Julie today. She was very friendly and helpful. We will come back again.

Had a lovely dinner tonight, thank you Shelley for wonderful service

We thought it a very nice place with nice staff but some of the other customers could of been a bit more considerable.

It was lovely the food quality was much better and the driver was fast and friendly. Thank you

Very nice dining experience. Friendly staff and great food selection.

Firstly we arrived with no reservation, and we were told that there wasn't any room in the restaurant and would have had to sit in the bar. Which is not what we wanted, we were told there wouldn't be any availability in the restaurant until at least 7pm, and this was at 4.15pm. we walked out and went onto the app on my phone and and booked a table for 4.15pm in the restaurant and went back in, and was seated by anbother member of staff immidiatley. So I don't like being lied to by members of staff. We are usually a regular visitor, but will probably start going elsewhere is this is how we are going to be treated. The meal it self was very nice, just didn't like being lied too.

Food was good and staff were lovely. All let down by toilets. Smell is disgusting!!

A standard harvester with the usual menu. I go here often, and team is friendly and always helpful. Next door to Hemel Hempstead train station, has parking that your need to enter your registration for. Also, has good breakfast menu options. There is a bar area and a dining area. No dogs as it is a restaurant. Wheelchair accessible.

Lovely dinner , Julie our waitress was lovely !

Julie’s service was impeccable. We will definitely be back

Great service, very friendly and helpful waitress called Julie. I have a gluten allergy and Julie was very knowledgeable and helpful.