The Swallows Return in Worthing

We visited 'Mark & Team' for my Birthday Dinner on Sat 14th Dec. We requested one course only from the Festive Menu expecting it to equate to the price of an average Main Course.. But to our surprise, we were shocked to receive a bill of circa £80 for just 2 Main Courses and 2 Drinks! We were expect to pay ££50 to £60 We are local and regular customers, but now we'll think twice about coming again((

Sadly disappointed with the festive menu. The quality of the food did not match the price. All felt as if it had been kept warm and not freshly cooked. Stuffing and bread sauce not provided. I know that’s a personal choice but I expected them.

Went for a staff xmas meal all dinners were pre booked, no service, no greeting, no bar staff, food was an hour later than booked, never again, gave up after main meal as was dry and cold, left before the long wait for pudding!!

Sadly we waited 15 minutes to be seated despite having a table reserved. Once seated we waited an additional 10 minutes before our orders wete taken. Then our starters arrived 35 minutes later... very late and disappointing. Our waitress didn't seem too concerned once we complained. We did request, which was given, another bottle of wine to compensate for the delay to our food, which we appreciated. It would have been nice if the staff offered this rather than us asking. Food quality was good though. However overall, a disappointing experience.

Really lovely dog friendly restaurant. Food was delicious and the staff were very friendly

Friendly service and an overall good meal. I must say I'm a sucker for the thick cut chips.

Wonderful experience, food lovely and staff so accommodating, would definitely recommend for a great night out. Thank you

Great looking restaurant and plenty of parking. Manager today at the bar at 12pm was polite, friendly and professional. Dog friendly. Ordered via QR code, easy to use, drinks and food delivered to your table. Food was reasonably priced, big portion and nicely cooked and presented. Overall, a great dinning experience out of town. Would visit again and do recommend.

My only criticism of this place is that the hot drinks are never hot

We arrived at 15:55 and waited for at least 5 minutes before anyone spoke to us. Our table wasn’t ready until 16:15 and during this time my 85 year old mum, who was using a walking stick, was not offered a seat while we waited. The table was laid for 5 instead of 6, another knife was missing and we asked 3 times for a knife before a member of staff gave us a knife from another table. We waited for about 45 minutes for our meal for our and the person who I believed was the manager served us with two vegan aubergine gratins, but he referred to the meal as aubergine Parmesan! We had to confirm it was the gratin as we wanted a vegan meal. We were not asked if we wanted any condiments with our meals and we had to get the attention of a member of staff to help. The manager was very abrupt and unhelpful during our visit. We felt very unwelcome and we were extremely disappointed with the whole experIence.

Took part in their 40% offer on Thursday early evening, very busy the staff were coping. Table booking missed. Food good as always.We will return (like the swallows).

A really friendly place either lovely staff. They accepted my last minute booking and made us feel most welcome. Food was really good and was good value We would certainly visit again

Best service I've ever had here. Great 'pub chain' food, nice price and good atmosphere.

Great food great service 👍 Met up here with some old school friends..lovely 😍

PAW PADDOCK WORTHING A secure dog park, next to The Swallows Return, handy for a coffee afterwards!

Very tastie food not long to wait. Staff very helpful and friendly.

Food was good, beer well kept and service excellent. However the ambience in the area we were placed was awful - in the rear of the restaurant with harsh lighting, paint peeling from the walls, no soft furnishings and hence extremely noisy.

Fantastic quiz night one of the best this year. Thanks to Mark and his excellent team.

Amazing pub, cozy vibes and the quiz is so much fun.

Amazing pub, the quiz is brilliant. Highly recommend.

Food is great, quizzes are amazing! Staff are super friendly and the pub is beautiful 😍

Nice place, good parking but food just average, bar service not overwhelming but perfect service to the table

Lovely pub. Great atmosphere. Lovely staff and great food. Recommend attending the St Barnabas quiz on the last Thursday of each month.

Lovely food and service also impressed by the attention given to one of our party who has food intolerances so she could choose options from an app.

It is a few years since I've visited the Swallows Return, sadly having been put off by a bad experience. Visited on 28/10/24 (reluctantly due to no other booking options available). Very pleasantly surprised! My husband said his mushroom starter was the best he's ever had(and he's had a lot!).Sunday roasts were delicious, lovely roast potatoes and veg. In particular wanted to mention our waitress Lucy who was so on the ball at a very busy Sunday afternoon. She had her eyes on all the tables and knew just what she was doing! Well done Lucy 👏

What a great night with friends, food was cooked to perfection and no long wait, staff were brilliant and very helpful as there were a few of us eating, will be going again.

Love the food at the Swallows and was well cooked by Dom R and came out piping hot, Kirsty was our Waitress and arranged our table as our number was larger than expected, I had the roast Turkey with Trimmings and crumble for dessert. Will return to this venue

The Sunday lunch was amazing! We sat in the garden, by choice, the surroundings were a bit lack lustre, not much beauty around and seen as is close to a27 some thought could have gone into creating a natural sight/sound barrier I.e. with bamboo. Yes garden needs some more attention and the food, friendliness and service was wonderful.

We had a group meal here for a birthday the service wasn't brilliant to be honest long wait between starters mains and dessert after everyone had been served mains 1 of our party was still waiting 20 minutes later for a steak . The food well people who had the gammon said it was very tough the burgers were overcooked hard on the sides . The swallows return is a lovely venue shame about the experience we had don't think we will be returning anytime soon

My waitress Lauren was really polite and considerate and smiley. Sam the chef made my food to perfection. Everything tasted amazing. It was a lovely atmosphere and will definitely be back again.

we loved our Sunday roast dinners, especially the puddings (credit to the chef). Furthermore, the service from Henry & Dexter was sublime!

Lovely Sunday roast and good service from Dexter and Henry. Will certainly be coming back for another meal in the near future.

Very nice meal amazing service! Nice local pub.

Good food in a nice place with very good service. Sunday lunch was excellent

Really nice place that let itself down. They allow dogs in but we were tucked away up the end of the building. Very slow bar service, and felt like they were understaffed. The manager spent most of the time faffing with his pad and ignoring the people at the bar. We had Sea Bass, which was actually ok, and a steak which was terrible. It was very dry and quite tough. It was like it had been left under a heat lamp for a while. We didn't complain as nobody actually bothered to come and ask how everything was. Having spoken to a couple of friends, it seems that this isn't uncommon. I don't think we'll be going back, which is a shame.

All perfect, just needed the fire on!!

This is a great location with excellent food and service. We will definitely recommend this to others, and will return soon.

We had a lovely meal with friends, I can recommend the lamb shank, cooked by Rich and the service was very good. Thanks to the very friendly and happy staff. Thanks also to Kirsty. Great evening.

Good choice on the dinner menu and excellent service from Kirsty. I can recommend the schnitzel - compliments to chef Rich.

Great food, lamb shanks perfect. Thank you Rich (chef) and to Kirsty for looking after our table so well. We will be back

Took the family there to celebrate an anniversary. Excellent service and very good food.

Dog friendly great food and atmosphere

A bit pricey for pub food but great setting

Great food served in a lovely atmosphere

Brilliant well priced food, nice service, topped with a nice vibe

Visited lunch time, very good service and choice on menu.

The atmosphere was lovely, the staff well presented, polite and friendly. Our drinks were good but the food wasn’t as nice as it should have been. The beef was as tough as old boot leather and the roast potatoes, carrots and parsnips had been sitting around too long and had an odd not fresh taste. The other vegetables were good.

Over 6 attempts to book a Christmas meal. By phone and email. No response.

Very nice sirloin steak, but service was slow

Lovely dog friendly vibe, lots of seating, clean, but unfortunately the food was quite disappointing and overpriced

Good food, friendly and efficient staff and interesting venue (converted barn).

Eaten here numerous times over the years. This visit was not upto normal high expectations and service. Booking through the app was very difficult and wouldn't actually save the reservation. Tried contacting the pub 6 times with no answer. Pudding plate was served with what can only be described as a damp cloth smell assumed where the edge was wiped before serving. We're not provided soup or pie of the day info without asking and no offer for additional drinks without asking. Staff were very polite but clearly too busy to provide better service. Understaffed maybe the cause of this poorer visit.

Delicious Sunday roast meal, cosy bar is downstairs and lovely staffs

So welcoming, really good service. The dog station was lovely and our dog appreciated it. Food was excellent.

Cold vegetables, bendy reheated new potatoes and burnt fish cakes. Beautiful venue let down by bad cooks.

Best roast we have had in a while, a proper treat!

Thank you to the most beautiful, resourceful, clever and hard working Luci Saxon. Great recommendation and always wonderful to get to see you. 😘😘

The drinks are expensive, and so are the desserts. Relatively pleasant atmosphere.

Had a lovely family Sunday lunch, really nice venue, airy but welcoming, plenty of seating in and out, will be back😊

Perfect service as always, Steve was brilliant at sorting my app issues out for my 20% mains as app wasn’t working. Food was good and hot. Highly recommended

Loved it as met up with old friends to catch up.

Nice place! Lovely garden and family friendly, will be back.

This looks absolutely wonderful and peaceful, just like my father always remembered spending his summer holidays here. I wonder if the owner can find out whether it is the same place. My cousin in York confirms that it is. So in the 1930s or thereabouts it would have belonged to Anita (or Neta) McNeil, née Lawrence (aka Aunt Biddy), military nurse in the Boer War who were known as Nightingales.

Great place for food, very happy with the Sunday roast “I had the pork and it was lovely!” Kids loved running around, we did book a table in advance , it was a hot sunny afternoon and I thought it would be packed but it wasn’t! Loads of parking and a great for posh pub food!

We took the dogs with us and were pleased to see fresh water and treats were provided for them as soon as we arrived 🐾 We were served by Honey who was the most helpful waitress I’ve experienced in ages. Polite and engaging with nothing being too much trouble for her. Thanks for making our evening Honey Overall the food was good, everything was hot and the veg cooked perfectly. The fish cakes were delicious. The pies we ordered had to be returned as the pastry was insipid and did not look visually appealing. We were told by a male waiter the pies were cooked for a set time - might we suggest if this is the case the time is changed. Even when the pies were returned to us they hardly had any colour! Also the pie of the day was chicken and pancetta, lots of chicken but nothing else!

Date night at the swallows return highly recommended. Lovely food, outstanding service. Really worth a visit. Would definitely go again

Second visit there, everything was excellent.

We love the decor, surrounding environment. The food was good and the service was good. I can't think of anything that needs improvement.

Had not been here for a number of years due to food choices. I was surprised on my return food that I chose was excellent with a great atmosphere. Also nice that we where not hurried between courses.

as my nearest restaurant was fully booked we made the short 15 minute drive to the swallows return , i had pie of the day and my friend had lasagne, i must say the service was excellent from start to finish ,so well done

I've missed 4 members offers as forgot to scan my app ...staff should remind customers when they're paying ...to scan

We celebrated my mum’s 70th birthday yesterday. James and the team were all amazing. There were 20 of us for lunch and everyone had a great time, the food and atmosphere was also amazing. James responded quickly to emails / pre ordering the food & was a great host on the day. Will definitely be going back.

We visited last Friday lunchtime for a family meal for five of us. We had to wait a fair few minutes to be seated to our pre-booked table which was frustrating with a 93 year old relative for whom we had to find a seat whilst we waited. We had a lovely server, Lorraine who enhanced our experience, especially for our elderly relative who was celebrating their birthday. Lorraine was welcoming, professional, friendly and attentive and she made my elderly relative feel very special which was lovely. There was a good choice of starters, mains and desserts and all that we ordered was tasty with a fair cost for the type of restaurant this is. We enjoyed a leisurely meal (always is with an oldie) and did not feel rushed at all. Will be happy to return.

Welcoming, good quality food and hot in a pleasant environment

Great food! We both had an amazing starter and main. I also had a dessert (the honeycomb ball) which had great presentation, but I felt the chocolate ball let it down. Not great chocolate in my opinion. Otherwise really good food!!

We had a lovely lunch, sitting outside in the sunshine.

The food is always excellent and enough without being over indulgent

Excellent atmosphere. Dood interetsing food choices. We had a wonderful waitress

5 star Sunday lunch Was just like really home cooked meal by your mum Great place staff atmosphere and food will be returning We had the roast beef and turkey meals Thank you

We went here today having walked out of another pub (The Wolrds End) after having to endure the worst attitude any of the 5 of us had ever encountered from a waitress. We were glad we came here. The food was pretty good, although the fish cakes were a bit of a let down. The other 4 dishes were all liked, with the food served in good time, and hot. The waitress service was efficient and unobtrusive. As pub food goes this was pretty good and at fair prices, so would we go back, definitely which is more than we can say for our first stop!

Lovely meal, good atmosphere and efficient, friendly service.

Called into The Swallows Return for lunch The food and service was excellent friendly helpful staff lovely outdoor areas ideal now the weather has improved highly recommended.

The hamburger was amazing with an added bonus of chopped brisket on top. One of the best this Texas girl has enjoyed.

Had my birthday lunch on Monday 17th June. The food was fantastic. The most incredible pineapple & ginger salad dressing. Kirsty our waitress was delightful. Really helpful and chatty. The barn lives up to its name with Swallows darting around outside. Beautiful place.

Food was as expected fantastic! Delivered to me via Uber eats! However, the dinner did not have gravy or potatoes but did have lots of yorkshires

Large converted barn and car park. Very nice inside. Good interesting menu and extensive bar. Scallops for starters followed by Sirloin steak then mini crumble and coffee. Pleasant service and dog friendly. Only minus was the coffee rather weak and bland. Another excellent meal, King Prawn cocktail to start followed by Sea Bass. Perfect pint of Guinness. Pleasant staff.

Great restaurant in a lovely setting with good food

Beautiful surroundings and interior lovely helpful staff well worth a visit fantastic choice of drink

Staff and food were good, great surroundings . Very disappointing with regards the non alcoholic beer choice. Having only peroni is not great, especially as I’m sure there are lots of drivers, as pub in isolated area. Most pubs have 0% Guinness plus other bottled ales.

Very nice place to eat goose service and food highly recommended

Food and service is very good, my only slight quibble is they are unable to make small changes to your order!

We were served by Saoirse who was very attentive courteous and polite. Our meal was excellent,as usual, at the Swallows Return. There was very little time between ordering and receiving our meal. The evening was more enjoyable with a 40% voucher and the presentation of my loyalty card. I am now due a mystery prize on my next visit. Thanks to Mark and his staff for a most enjoyable visit.

Great pub, although limited beer choice. Doom Bar is a good beer however!

The whole experience was fantastic from the welcome, the service in particular Saoirse our waitress who was very attentive and looked after us and our 2 and 4 year old girls, the food was great and the drinks fantastic

Excellent, visited for the first time and definitely won't be the last - we had a really good meal 👌 the staff were polite and friendly. There's plenty of seating both inside and out - I would recommend the swallows return.

Lovely decor, chilled atmosphere, dog friendly! The food is well priced, nicely presented, and the vegan options were delicious. We will definitely be going back.

Always a warm welcome from all staff, cosy atmosphere, very busy, but didn't have to wait long for drinks or food. Only thing that we think could be improved are some of the chairs that are not very comfortable

Beautiful, cozy yet spacious. The location is nice, plenty of parking. Well designed and decorated.

My wife Sue and I popped in Wednesday lunchtime and was greeted by Kirsty who gave us a lovely table overlooking the garden we ordered the lunchtime special both having garlic mushrooms for starter and lasagne for main. Our food cooked by chef Jack was superb and the service faultless. This was the first time we've been for a few years as we now live out of the area but we will be making the effort to return on a regular basis as its worth it.

we thoroughly enjoyed our visit, the meal was great, but went cold quickly, Service excellent