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I am so torn as I really like this place, love its coffee and products and visit it very often usually for coffee or food to go during the weekend or weekdays. I always find the lack of music disturbing but I recently visited the space to work as I thought that it would be a good place to sit and focus on my work but the ladies that work in this place are SOOOOOOOOO loud.. I have never seen anything like it. Even if I was with a friend I would not have been able to chat with them as the two ladies behind the counter were constantly chatting extreeeeemely loudly. Such a shame honestly this should be a place to sit down and relax but NOPE! Only coffee to go moving forward.

I'm afraid I was very disappointed with my visit to the restaurant today because of the poor staff experience. I had visited Beleek Pottery restaurant many years ago and had great memories of it. This time, while the food was nice enough, the service was terrible! Three examples - when I arrived there were several people ahead of me trying to alert staff that they were looking for service. I added my voice and someone finally came out removing their ear phones, which I assume was the reason they couldn't hear that people wanted service. I ordered a quiche and salad which was fresh and tasty enough, and a lemon meringue which was OK but obviously several days old with sodden pastry and soft meringue. I asked the waitress if I could wait to take my coffee until I had eaten the main course. When I came back for it, she handed me the same cup of coffee which had been sitting on the counter for at least 10 minutes! I asked for a hot cup which she got for me, but I was astounded that she didn't think to pour me a hot cup of coffee. Lastly, a large group of tourists came in while I was eating, probably from a bus tour and they were queuing up. I had noticed that the top tier of the restaurant was roped off, but despite the arrival of this large group, no one removed the ropes. I also noticed dirty dishes piled up at the hatch not being washed for some reason also. So I would say, these staff need to be trained. They were friendly enough when I spoke with them, but clearly hadn't a clue how to give good service to customers. Given that most of the customers are probably tourists, Beleek Pottery can do better than this in terms of staff training.

El café (servido en tazas de cartón) está bien, pero la ensalada de pato (servido en una caja de cartón) es casi no comestible - 3 pequeños trozos de pato ahumado (ok) , y una pila de fideos secos y fríos. Le mencioné esto a la señora de la caja, no estaba interesada. ¡No voy a volver!

Disfrutamos de un carvery encantador el domingo pasado celebrando el cumpleaños de mis padres, el personal era extremadamente servicial y la comida era increíble.

This has to be the best restaurant in Swanage. There are no end of fish & chips and burger places in Swanage but if you want a high quality meal, home cooked with excellent ingredients and a feeling of ‘class’ then this is the place for you. The food is reasonably priced too and cook by the owner. Book a table to avoid disappointment and the house specialty is the local Purbeck pie. An absolute gem.

Este es mi lugar obligado cuando visito Liverpool, pero no puedo entender por qué no está más ocupado. El personal es siempre amable y presente y se puede ver el mundo pasar si se consigue un asiento en la ventana. Yo diría que necesitan más personal especialmente para cubrir al personal cuando van a su descanso para almorzar. Llegamos a la 1 pm para que el lugar estuviera cerrado, pero nos dijeron que volviéramos después de las 2 pm

Good for a lunch stop when walking around town. Food is tasty and well cooked, staff are friendly. The only slight downside is the seating area is a bit crammed but overall seats are comfortable. Place is clean and tidy.

Best Cafe in the south east !!, you can really tell the ingredients are of very high quality, massive portions and always amazing service, plus they also do takeaway 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Went to try Roast Dinner at the three jays as we hadn't been since the new ownership. The Dinner was small, not very hot and a basic and bland Roast dinner. Dinner a nans (But not as good)

my mate comes over every Wednesday and up till lockdown we visited here. It has got to be the best place in Poole. the staff were excellent and was really hoping it would reopen.

Was at the cross keys Sunday just gone with the wife.and the pub was very busy and there was a wait for food.but when the food arrived it was cooked very well and was very tasty.we had starters and my gammon was very nice.and my wife's pork was lovely.

My husband and I visited the restaurant today hoping to have lunch with a view to making a future reservation for 16 people for a Birthday celebration. My husband and I stood in the reception area of the restaurant for 7 minutes waiting to be seated. It was clear that the staff knew that we were waiting as we were the only people awaiting a table but nobody even acknowledged our presence. Not surprisingly, given this level of poor service, the place was almost empty at lunchtime on a Bank Holiday. We walked out in disgust and made the reservation elsewhere which provided the kind of service that we are accustomed to. Shame on The Holiday Inn. This is the second shoddy experience I've had with the Holiday Inn and I've only been to two of them!!

Used to be a very well run pub Now it’s just a meeting place for all the single mums in the area to let there kids run amok Went there today for breakfast and before you knew it they all started to turn up,kids running about everywhere,jumping over everything,blowing whistles,screaming while there mums are either outside smoking ,vaping or on there phones,most of the mums looked half cut from the night before..this is at 10.45 in the morning Zero control over them I was watching the locals who were spending money starting to leave as staff wasn’t doing nothing to stop it Eventually a local asked one of the staff to tell them to stop it which she asked the kids to go over where there mums were Like I said was a good pub but now the chav mums have taken over

A lovely old fashioned pub. Excellent service. Very good value but the chef really needs to learn how to cook roast potatoes! Hard and horrible. However the meat and toast root vegetables were delicious.

Chance visit and head barman very good, found table, gave good recommendations of pie and mash and made alterations to suit my wife hating peas!!….. would definitely come again and use deceptive rear garden backing into fields