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Large pub geared to the masses of holiday makers visiting the Filey Bay holiday complex. As a result, it has no real interest in providing a good service based on a variety of products but instead, the captive audience encourages a mediocre bar with a very limited selection of equally mediocre brands - certainly none that I would consider 'premium' quality. As a malt whisky enthusiast, I looked forward to be sampling Filey Bay malt whisky which is distilled almost next door! What an opportunity lost for both the bar and the distillery. The place looks tired, IS tired and it's only saving grace are a few staff who appear to want to serve the customer by giving friendly, efficient service. Deciding to eat there one night we booked in and reserved a table. Returning to eat later, we were taken to our table, handed some menus and left to get on with it. First task - Find a child seat and struggle to get the heavy, awkward item through the tightly spaced tables & seats to where we needed it. When we got it into position, within seconds we were being asked for our drinks order. No chance of real cask ales here so it was a bottle of reasonably priced wine for 3 with other mediocre drinks for the other adults and soft drinks for the children. These were delivered fairly quickly and food ordered from a reasonable menu which had a good range of options. We started with a 3 starters which we intended sharing - McSweens Haggis Bon bons and spring rolls with dumpling. We asked for additional plates to facilitate this but still waiting -,fortunately napkins came to the rescue. The haggis was superb but then McSween products are without doubt top of the lot when it comes haggis. (Think they are trapped, dispatched this life and off to the customer within hours - the freshest you can get them). The spring rolls were equally fresh as we were eating them mid spring meaning they had time to mature. Main courses included 3 cajun burgers, one cheeseburger and one steak pie. My Steak pie was really pretty good , smallish and despite being 'catering food' was full of lean steak rather than the normal mush. Lovely jug of gravy and selection of veg. Those with the Cajun burgers and the kids cheeseburger certainly demolished their platefuls. 3 chocolate muffins with ice cream were ordered and a long wait was encountered. Admittedly the place was filling up by now but after 40 minutes, we were about to cancel when they arrived. 2 were ok but one resembled a chunk of rubber. 3 of us had a try at cutting the lump of dark brown gunge but no way was a knife going through that mass. Taken back and within seconds, a fresh palatable portion was handed over, with no apology. Had the feeling the delay we experienced was them preparing a new batch whilst one solitary piece from an earlier tray was lying under a heat lamp. By this time the place was heaving we left with a Final conclusion that we would eat elsewhere in future. On our final day, we went in for cocktails - or rather sat outdoors. Order taken fairly promptly however after 25 minutes, we had to go make 3 return trips to the bar to be told repeatedly that they would be out shortly. Fourth trip finally ended up with us standing there and doing self delivery - 40 minutes after originally asking for them. Big negative for the Filey Bay complex is the lack of competition - complacency allied to a captive audience gives the results we experienced.

Just back from staying at The Bay. Called here to order takeaway pizza and they were so welcoming we ended up eating in. Family of four with our dog. The cheese garlic bread was lovely. Each had a different pizza, couldn’t eat it all so they boxed up what was left for us. Even gave our dog a little bowl of chicken and ham which was a lovely touch. The staff were so nice and very attentive.

This used to be the "Mash and Barrel" been changed to a "JW Wetherspoons". Verdict on entering. A lot brighter than my usual, prices higher, and only standard real ales. Oh! The Wetherspoons app doesn't work in here either. And just as a warning, you need to download the haven serve app for ordering at the table, which doesn't have everything on the table menu's 😤😤

Awful cold old food chucked at you,rude spotty man.

Not the absolutely awful experience others have described, but be warned this is not a proper chippy. Most of the produce is bought in and cooked from frozen including the chips. The sausages also appeared to have been left under the heating lamp for about 12 hours too long. Turning to our meal, it was £26.90 for a fish and chips; sausage and chips; 6 nuggets and curry sauce - that is somewhat on the pricey side even for a half decent chippy. That's before we even review what we actually received. As I mentioned, everything we got was perfectly edible, but nothing is made in house. The fish was quite tasty, but very small. The kids refused to eat the £5.99 nuggets (I managed them so nothing wasted, but terrible value for what you get as they are very much basic frozen nuggets hand tossed into the frier from a blue plastic bag). We did manage to get some freshly cooked sauagages and these were actually perfectly fine. However, as with any chippy, the chips should be the foundation on which it's built - and if these are anything to go by, this place should have crumbled into the sea years ago. Serving frozen chips is a travesty. Having the audacity to charge £4 a pop for them should be criminal. When you consider that the cod and chips combined was £12.98, you'd be better served heading next door to the on site 'spoons and have the fish and chips from there. Yes, it's all still cooked from frozen, but it's a better portion, open later, you get a table to eat it at, and they throw in a pint for just 67p more. Winner winner.