The best restaurants serving Brasserie food in England

Delicious authentic Pakistani food served in a relaxed and ambient setting. Special thanks to Tania for her friendly service. Highly recommend the Lahore masala fish!

Great service, they constantly come around for Rodizio with different meat and carve into your plate as long as you have your card with green side up. There were chicken, beef, steak(one tender and one chewy), lamb, pork, sausages and a very salty kind of pork. We were stuffed after trying all of the different meats. You can help yourself at the salad bar, garlic bread, fried bananas, wedges, chips and some meat stew were available as well. You should go in the morning for the fried bananas while they are fresh and crisp, we went in the afternoon and the fried bananas were soggy. Desserts were on display only and you have to order separately.

Tracy cooked us an amazing meal, & Natasha provided excellent service. Really great food & atmosphere makes it brilliant value for money. 10/10

I have been visiting this particular restaurant for years and it has always been good. Unfortunately this time I visited it was terrible. The restaurant has been declining for a while and this last visit on 27th October is likely to be my last one. When we got there I observed that the restaurant was only about 35% full. It was a Sunday evening and is to be expected. We were placed at a table and given menus. After about 15 minutes nobody had come back to even ask if we wanted drinks or to take our order. We went back to the main desk and asked to be moved to a different table stating that we were being forgotten. The staff said we weren't, it was just that a big table in the other end of the restaurant had been monopolising their time. I looked and this was only a table of 8 people - not exactly huge. Finally we were asked for our order, which was taken. We had been in the restaurant about 20 minutes by now. The restaurant was very cold and a lot of people were complaining. At one point the duty manager asked my wife to move so she could reach the temperature controls. Unbelievably these are located up high on a column. The manager had to reach them by standing on the seat! When done she didn't even wipe the seat where she had been standing, which was where my wife was originally sitting. We were given bowls for the salad bar. When I got there everything was very depleted. Some things had completely run out. All the sauces were empty. Appalling. We were then becoming acutely aware of the female chef standing at front of house. She was being loud, crashing around, talking constantly at full volume and flirting with other staff members. She was knocking back Red Bull like there was no tomorrow. I think she must have been on acid or something. It was making the atmosphere very uncomfortable. Even the other staff were complaining about her! After about another half an hour there was no sign of our meals. They again seemed to be concentrating solely on the 'big' table of 8. Food for this table was coming out sporadically and was being lined up on the counter for collection. Some of the plates were sitting there for at least 10 minutes with people walking past, the mad chef talking constantly and breathing all over them. I don't know about anyone else, but when a plate is ready I would expect it to be taken straight to the table. I was shocked. We were there for 50 minutes in total and this charade seemed never ending. By the end of it we were thoroughly pissed off with the atmosphere, staff attitude, lack of attention and having been there for 50 minutes with no sign of food in a restaurant that was only at 35% capacity. I also observed other customers being ignored in a similar manner. At this point we had had enough and got up and walked out. The staff weren't even apologetic - it was almost like they were glad to see the back of us. The whole experience was shocking. It was a Sunday evening and I get the impression that the staff didn't care and just wanted to get home. The salad bar being practically empty is also unacceptable - I expect to have the same level of service at any time of the week, as we are being charged the same amount regardless. The staff looked scruffy too. Many tables were not properly cleaned. This whole experience was dreadful and has completely put me off eating out. Shame on you Harvester - continue like this and you'll be out of business.

Order was ready to collect in 20 minutes. Food was great as always.

Sloppy burger that tasted like pure grease and oil. Nasty experience. Waste of time and money.

Nice, large room, rather small bathroom. Everything was clean and there was the possibility of proper ventilation, which was necessary as there was a slight smell of food in the room (back room of a pub). Unfortunately, the people in the pub weren't particularly friendly or cooperative.

Superb food and service. Cannot fault anything about it. Highly recommended - will be back again very soon. Lovely atmosphere & very friendly

Absolutely shocking. Very rude.

food very poor. the worst apple crumble I have ever eaten. poor presentation.Waiters need training. chef needs replacing!!

On a Friday night you would expect the restaurant to be busy. The place was only half full so there's no excuse for the service we received. Twice we had to find a waitress to take our order after none appeared in our part of the restaurant. Food was OK.

Came in with my parents for a meal and had an amazing experience. The food was exceptional, couldn’t not fault. I had the Katsu Chicken and Crème Brûlée. Service from Paul, Abbie and Eleanor was top notch, all super friendly and helpful!! Couldn’t recommend more.

The Smoker was a nice pub restaurant.Very sadly the thatched roof caught fire on the early evening of Wednesday 23rd October 2024,so will be closed for the foreseeable future I would think. This was reported on local news..it is Very sad.such a lovely atmosphere when I visited a good few years ago.

Shout out to the super staff at Calico Jack in Skipton. Thank you for making our birthday celebration a happy event. Super atmosphere, the most important thing is the support for entertaining children, crayons games etc. It's difficult to find places which cater so well for ages 3-6 year old. Great food choice, seems that Sunday lunch time in October is a great time to go for it was fairly quiet. Not rushed with the food so plenty of time for table top games with the children and colouring. Just a perfect place to spend time and eat with the family.

Fantastic food! Great service. Lovely place. The pie was out of this world - in fact we bought one to take home with us too!