The Herd Restaurant

Church Rd, Pangbourne, Reading
0118 984 2244

Recent Reviews

Emma Coffey

Great meal last night! 10/10

Sophia

We had a truly memorable meal last night for our anniversary. ? Home baked bread and olives to start and tomahawk sharing steak for main with a rosemary and garlic rub, medium rare, cooked to perfection. I had the creamed mushroom and truffle oil sauce which was exquisite, and my other half had whiskey cream, such interesting and unique flavours. The atmosphere had a perfect ambience with low lighting and the sound of the crackles of the wood fire - which by the way, was amazing to watch our steak be prepared! The service was fantastic and it was lovely to be surprised with bubbles on the house for our anniv. ? The bottle of red we had was really nice, too. Would 100% recommend this place over and over. We look forward to returning! Thank you for playing a part in our special day.

Matthew Richardson

I came here to celebrate a special day with my wife. The staff were amazing as was the food. I would be very happy to come back here.Parking: There were about six or so spaces for the hotel. There's a council run car park next door which is free from around 6pm

Flavio Santos

The thomahawk steak was burned with a thick crust of charcoal. It left a persistent and extremely unpleasant very bitter charcoal taste on my palate. It was still lingering an hour after we got back home. This completely ruined our meal. This was a much anticipated birthday celebration that turned out to be the worst experience when it comes to the food. Also the red wine we chose was not available. And then it happened again with the second bottle. The house salad was poorly presented and in fact it looked like a handful of pre-prepared bag of salad from a supermarket. Normally you go out to eat as an occasion. But most of the food served was no more inspiring than we could have done at home. Of course the meat was much worse as it was cremated. This meal was one of the most disappointing meals we have ever had.

Neopyrrhus Neopyrrhus

This was a nasty meal. An overpriced steak to share was ruined. Burned black and acrid on the outside, virtually raw in the middle. The salad was dull. Truly lackluster and sadly was not sufficient to mask the burned bitter taste of the poorly cooked beef. What a waste of money ? Plenty of money also. Red wine sauce, virtually tadteless. Mushroom..that was quite nice. Balsamic glased tomato? WHERE WAS THE BALSAMIC? We ordered two different bottles, but both wines were not in stock. Finally, we were furnished with an ancient old plonk, half of which we left half on the table when we left, along with a large proportion of the inedible steak. Admittedly we were offered a reduced price. But this celebration meal was a ruined nasty experience.

Phil Holloway

Everything was perfect, even the company was 10/10

Joanne Harkcom

Quite cold. Steak only luke warm. I thought it would be better.5 star chips tho!

Ollie44 6119

11/10 restaurant amazing atmosphere with some of the best food I’ve ever had couldn’t imagine a better place to celebrate with a

Christopher Fox-Geen

Superb Tomahawk steak cooked so expertly at the open fire. Service superb. Special mention for the highest customer service quality from Daisy.Parking: After 6pm free parking next door

Karl Williams

Been here many times for dinner and afternoon tea, food is always fantastic, staff are very friendly and welcoming, Marvin is an absolute gentleman.

Janie30

Just love this restaurant! Have been before with friends this time it was for father's day. One of my sons is a complete steak freak and is VERY particular about how is steak is cooked. He actually said this was the best steak he's ever had in a restaurant. I just love the food, the waiting staff and the ambience. Can't wait to come again, even if it's a bit out of the way for us. But please make sure you have the Provence Rose in stock - hate Pinot blush ;-)

SenSei

It's absolutely incredible!! Food, staff, setting, just incredible. Many thanks to the chef for looking after us tonight!!

Chinnie

Heerlijk stukje vlees gegeten, en echt het was een goed stuk vlees maar prijzig. De bediening was vriendelijk.

bigjohn001

Booked afternoon cream tea for the Bank Holiday Monday. Initially we was told there was no availability in the afternoon and if we wanted a 7pm slot. Hence we said no. However a few hours later, they advised that they did have availability, so booked the 1pm slot. The waiter was very help and he was very attentive. We was offered a variety of teas, alternatively coffees. Great selection of sandwiches and cakes, plus both plain and fruit scones. The waiter asked if we wanted more tea/coffee, which we did. As we couldn't eat all the cakes, he waiter provided a take away box, so we took away four cakes. The only negative comment, was that we was the only people in the restaurant, which was a bit strange.

Tom Worthington

Disappointing afternoon tea; all of the sandwiches were rather lacklustre, none of the desserts/petit fours were bad, but none of them were memorable either, and the scones were poorly formed, overcooked, and not that fresh. I wouldn't recommend it, nor would we return for this. That being said, the table next to us ordered a Sunday roast and that looked pretty good!

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