The Crab and Lobster, Bembridge - pub details
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Address: 32 Foreland Fields Road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, PO35 5TR [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 5128) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Brading (3.1 miles), Sandown (4.6 miles), Smallbrook Junction (4.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Seaside location
- Outside seating (Beer garden overlooking the sea), Accommodation available
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> Current user rating: 6.6/10 (rated by 35 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Old Village Inn, Bembridge (0.8 miles), Pilot Boat Inn, Bembridge (1.1 miles), Propeller Inn, Bembridge Airport (1.3 miles), Culver Haven Inn, Sandown (1.7 miles), Vine Inn, St Helens (2.0 miles)
user reviews of the Crab and Lobster, Bembridge
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| Visited this pub on Sunday just gone. Food was a bit pricey but could not be faulted, limited menu after 1430 hrs but still good enough choice. Views fantastic the interior was good and plenty of space. The host was however efficent, not rude but this should have been a perfect place to visit but will not go back. Yes this has so much going for it but where I work you in the customer service business a smile and a bit of enthusiam goes a long way. On the upside the lady that accomadated a young childs meal request got a bit nearer the mark although this could have been done with a bit better grace bart123 - 23 Aug 2011 19:15 |
| Had an excellent value-for-money jacket potato with salad here once, but it was a good many years ago. tommo5 - 1 Aug 2011 11:50 |
| Outside appearance of pub was scruffy, lawn uncut, shabby fence spoiling what should have been beautiful views out to sea. Changed hands? Pub is now pink! Our party ordered prawn jacket, cheese & coleslaw jacket, crab & prawn salad, ham egg and chips (requested eggs to be broken and cooked well). Waited approx 40 mins for food to be served. Not offered any dressing for salad, brown and red sauce along with dirty cutlery already on table in a container. Eggs were runny, not cooked as requested. Chips greasy - undercooked over fried. Jackets OK but way too much greenery. Menu should have read "SALAD and Jacket". Crab & prawn salad (£17-95) was terrible. Sauce for prawns arrived in paper cup, over enthusiastic green salad badly needed dressing, unripe tomatoes. Red crab meat was mushy, unseasoned. White crab meat contained plenty of shell. Supposed to be served with bread, came with 4 small rings of baguette with DIY portions of semi melted butter. Has put me off eating seafood for a long time to come. Not at all good value for money, AVOID!! phooey - 16 May 2011 21:25 |
| VERY expensive for small portions of badly cooked and unimaginitve food. A place this close to sea and trading on its reputation for sea food should be able to identify decent quality shell on prawns and cook them to perfection. Sadly, they cannot. If you want to pay £15 for 6 rubbery prawns and a packet of pre prepared basic catering salad, without any dressing, then go ahead, but you can do a LOT better than this on the IOW. I am amazed that apparently this place has won "dining pub of the year" on the IOW for 2010 and I just cannot comprehend how. Seriously. It is very clear this place is simply trading on its (admittedly lovely) beachside location and probably doesn't have to try very hard because of it. Maybe they stepped up their game when the judges of the "dining pub" came along, I don't know. My mother ordered crab cakes. Very bland, hardly any seasoning and should have been called potato cakes, not crab cakes. My husband thought his meal was ok, just average really. We complained (which actually isnt something we do very often but we were genuinely shocked at what they were expecting us to pay for such poor quality) and were offered a paltry £5 off our bill. Interestingly, we also heard another couple complaining (to no avail) while we were there about undercooked fish. Don't get me wrong, we are not the kind of people who expect Michelin star food when we eat out at a pub, but we are also the kind of people who wouldn't enjoy the food quality at a Harvester, for example. So, if you want to pay the prices of the former for the quality of the latter, I'm sure you will find The Crab and Lobster is for you. However, my recommendation for MUCH better food would be The New Inn at Shalfleet, The Garlic Farm at Newchurch or Coast in Cowes. BabyInTow - 10 Mar 2011 11:25 |
| Four of us visited this pub last week. Advertised as a good menu with lots of pub favourites but mainly seafood. Nice setting and views but very busy - best to book a table. Quite a long wait after ordering. When the starters came only two arrived and the other two took ages (we had to chase them up). The first had finished theirs before the second two arrived. Then all at once we had the main courses too - table not cleared and two of us still eating starters. Prices average and food nice but service awful. No apology or offer of a free drink to compensate. Certainly would not return. Sad to say we were not the only unhappy customers that night - at least two other tables having problems. tripper - 16 Aug 2010 20:05 |
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