The best restaurants in Forest of Dean South West

Polite quick clean services. Would highly recommend them

We popped in to use the toilet. Landlord and public very friendly and helpful

Great to have this in the garage, makes for a perfect pit stop 👌

A member of staff was very rude to me. Normally when I finish my coffee, I have the decency to put my tray on the serving counter. It doesn't require a huge amount of energy. It helps to clear the table for the next customer. As I did this, a member of staff laughed in my face without saying thank you. I didn't realise it was a weird thing to do. I was brought up with old fashion manners and values, and I thought I was saving them time. I complained in the store and I was completely ignored. Very rude, ignorant and unprofessional behaviour. They need to attend a customer service course asap and grow up. In future, I'll leave my tray on the table to avoid being ridiculed and laughed at.

Ordered food at 5pm when they open,waited over 3 hours for it to be delivered. Never again will I order from them

We really enjoyed the food here and prices were good. Lots to choose from, also on the kids menu, restaurant was clean and service was quick.

Personally I think this place is excessively priced for the facilities and the reasons I will share with you. Importantly we were looked after by Summer, the young lady was polite, very helpful and efficient and is an asset to this establishment . We note that the bar closes at 5pm so you will have to go to the pub over the road . The Butchers for drinks . You are not allowed to bring drinks back to this hotel unless you want to be fined £600 ! The nearest town is 12 mins drive away in Coleford. I advise you book a table if eating out as everywhere is always busy. I advise you check your beds and rooms upon arrival. Sadly our room was ready but we found dirty underwear in our bed so had to request housekeeping to completely change our sheets , even though it had been done . The rooms are small but functional . Breakfast is comprised of a bacon or sausage bap, cereal , tea coffee and toast . No fry up here. So eat plenty because if your going up to the Castle for a wedding you will not have access to food until after the speeches which may be late afternoon. My advice is keep some snacks and things in your boot for emergencies . Breakfast is very early as is the 10am checkout time. Small free car park at the back. Like I said at the beginning I think it is overpriced as there are some local Inns nearby that may offer much more for your money.

Ordered of food hub 2x kids meals to fines out no chips and no drink at nearly £4 pounds each . Meals were also cold and not worth the money paid for . Wont be back sorry but warning all of u on food hub

Closed down after barely any time, matey thought this was London so he could charge ridiculous money. Food was mid at best, leaning heavily towards mediocre. May as well have just wrote my review in the menu would've done more to sell the place than your pathetic failed attempt to revive the place. A microwave meal for a quid at Aldi has more flavour than the slop he served here. Bro didn't know how to run a business and it shows. Everyone on the tele is just arrogant lol.

Someone recommended this 'gem of a cafe' well had a day out and visited this place for a coffee to find it was closed on a lunchtime. Oh well a few months later decided to have another try of this place and it was closed yet again on lunchtime. well my third visit - yes I did try again and it was finally open but I was overcharged from someone else that had ordered the exact same. I overheard what I suppose was the owner running another customer down saying people in rental housing and on benefits are scum of the Earth. This made me phyically sick as I am one of those people. I shall not be visiting here again

Having already tried breakfast at the neighbouring Willowbrook garden centre, we thought we would give the Blackdown breakfast a try. When we found the entrance we had to walk through all the departments till we finally arrived at the restaurant section. Despite the centre having several in-store clothing shops, the restaurant was definitely not on a par with other ‘destination’ centres. The breakfast itself was quite good, though toast was not offered as an option to fried bread, neither was there a choice as to how the eggs were cooked. The thing that struck me was that the restaurant was tired looking and not as clean as it could have been. Despite it being fairly early in the day, several tables had crumbs on them. The chrome frames of the tables were covered in smears and the backs of the leatherette chairs had marks on them. The overall effect was of ‘transport cafe’ rather than somewhere to ‘go for coffee/lunch’. A little bit of effort however could make this a nice place.

Visited whilst on holiday. We are 2 elderly ladies and wanted 2 children's breakfasts, the others being too large. We were refused, first time I have ever experienced this. Wont be going back. Also entrance was treacherous with slippery moss on paving stones, and very wet.

Had a cockroach 🪳 in my hot chocolate here! It was sticking out of the sip hole in the plastic lid after I finished the drink. (Not a joke).