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We are here on Saturday 25th Jan for an evening meal with friends. The service was friendly and polite, the food, however was disappointing. One of our party returned his dish because it was cold and the second dish came out and was bland. Portions are quite small and menu quite pricey, but then I guess you pay for the name. We weren’t given dessert menus after the mains which was poor but I’m not sure we would have ordered anyway. The staff were quick to rectify the cold meal and took it off the bill along with the service charge however I expected an altogether different experience than the one we got.

Amazing booking for 16 family members. Great friendly service, helpful attentive staff. Food was as usual a very high standard, looked and tasted fantastic.

Always use this shop as clean, polite, chatty and food and portion sizes excellent.

Absolutely gorgeous meal! Don’t listen to the previous and recent reviews! Our first visit to The Pearl after a friend recommended it to us. We had, In my opinion, the best takeaway we’ve had for years! Non greasy, non oily, but extremely tasty, freshly cooked and fantastic value for money. The best thing for me was the sweet and sour chicken balls, ( the sauce was perfect and a natural colour, lovely consistency unlike other takeaways in the area) and the pork dumplings, wow, absolute heaven! Also the crispy chilli beef was fab! Highly recommend and will definitely return.

When we have been here in the past its always been great but our family meal on Christmas eve was a terrible experience. My father-in-law booked a late table for 3pm due to family logistics. This, in hindsight was probably a mistake as we were rushed from the get go to sit and order as quickly as possible. We should have expected the same level of service as the other diners but the staff clearly wanted us to leave as quickly as possible. This could have been forgiven if the food had been up to it usual standard but it was far from it. Firstly the menu (if you could call it that) was extremely limited and ranged from expensive to very expensive. If you didn't want to spend £35 on a steak then it was a choice of a burger or a vegetarian celeriac steak. I went for the burger @ £16 and it was probably one of the worst burgers I have ever eaten and I'm including McDonald's in that statement. It was quite literally thrown onto a plate with no care or garnish of any kind. It was also dry, overcooked and rubbery. There was an overpowering and frankly not pleasant taste of harissa. The slightly undercooked fries were served separately not individually but for a "help yourself free for all". We had to repeatedly ask for napkins and sauces. We were brought a tiny ramekin of mayonnaise between 6 of us and when we asked for more we were told they had run out. How the hell do you run out of mayonnaise? My dessert (again, a tiny choice of crumble of brownie) was the apple crumble and was served Luke warm at best with about a tablespoon of uncooked sugar and crumble mix thrown on top. I felt very sorry for my father in law as he paid for this terrible meal as our family Christmas get together. I certainly wouldn't have paid for this food and service. The chefs here should be ashamed of themselves. In this day and age of covid upsetting the industry then I would say this place isn't going to last long as other restaurants have far higher standards of food and service in the area. Shame. It used to be nice.

The best kebab and pizza as well I'm chipping Norton, I come once a week for their lamb shish, and the people are so nice and welcoming, recommended!

delivered late from 30min delivery slot.

Had a lovely pub meal, service was excellent. Was severed by the lovely Courtenay, extremely attentive and very well looked after x

The food was very good service was good and staff friendly

This was a nice looking hotel in a lovely area. It is just scraping the 4 stars I have decided to rate it though because there were several points that were disappointing but none of them huge deals to me. However, one of the points should really have been a bigger deal to The Vines because, after booking, my details were clearly compromised somewhere along the line. I had booked via a third party site so it may have been their fault. I received SEVERAL emails and then WhatsApp messages from what was clearly a scam trying to get me to confirm my booking and payment via strange links. I called The Vines directly to confirm the booking and explain that I had received these communications but the lady who answered my call had no interest in the GDPR breach and simply confirmed my booking. To be honest, I couldn't be bothered to school her as to how that could have serious implications for the business. I had managed to get the messages to stop before I called. When we arrived at around 19:30 for our stay, we were informed that no food was being served because they were undergoing renovations. It wasn't the fault of the polite, young man who told us but we felt this should have been communicated prior to our arrival. Fortunately, we weren't that hungry and we did have snacks in our bag. Unfortunately, there wasn't a refrigerator in the room to keep them in despite the room description saying there was. There were many other things missing too- sugar for the tea making facilities, hand towels, TV remote for example. Also, when I booked it said I could bring my dog and this appeared to be at no extra cost. After I had paid for the booking I received a message telling me I had to pay more money on arrival to bring my dog. I wasn't asked to pay this when I got there thankfully. We were placed in an upstairs room and would've preferred a downstairs one since we had our dog with us but there was a decent green area to allow him to eliminate and a footpath opposite the hotel where we could give him a brief leg stretch before we set off the next day. The room was clean and spacious enough too, and the breakfast area was very nice, and our cooked breakfast was also good, and we appreciated it being included in the price. The location was great for us and made it easy to explore pretty Cotswolds villages and towns within a short drive as well as Jeremy Clarkson's pub. There's a lovely big garden centre for browsing in nearby in Burford but, if you're bringing your dog like us, it's not dog friendly sadly. I may consider staying at The Vines again in future, because I'm sure we'll revisit the area but it would depend on the prices.

Delicious Indian cuisine! Chicken Naga, onion and garlic rice, brinjal bhaji, onion bhaji, with pappadums and a delicious selection of accompanying pickles. Service was excellent. Thank you.

Went for dinner and a few drinks. Both of which were very nice. Would recommend

Tasty afternoon tea with good service 😊

We were staying locally and search Google to find this place - fantastic. Two great Real Ales (Timothy Taylor and Doom Bar) and tried them both. We ate in the Restsurant, but the Menu was the same. Great choice - two of us had the Pie 🥧 & two had the chicken supreme. Everything was delicious. The Staff were fantastic and made the evening even better 👏 👏👏👏

Food was absolutely amazing. Was really nice everyone is lovely. Then came to my room after dinner to watch love island to find out that the tv doesn’t have itv2. Gutted also means I couldn’t fall asleep listening to family guy so not happy. Ps I like you’re baths there very deep:) if the tv had itv2 it would be 10/10 but because of this I rate it 7/10.