Ealing Park Tavern

food was the best thing about this place
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dave - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Ealing Park Tavern has seriously gone down hill in the last 6 months. I used to go there 2/3 times a week. The food is overpriced and tries to be too fancy. The dishes are clearly beyond the skill of the chefs. I think the staff/owners seem to think they're in a episode of Friends because they spend more time sitting outside smoking, drinking and chatting than actually serving customers. I got the distinct feeling that because I wasn't friends with the staff then I wasn't welcome. It is consistently like crashing someone else's party.
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S.D
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Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

This is a good restaurant but we visit there less often than we generally would as I'm a vegetarian and the vegetarian choice is very limited.

The food is always excellent though and the restaurant always has a nice buzzy atmosphere about it.

Would visit more regularly esp if they start offering a vegetarian roast on the Sunday menu!!
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Sarah - View all reviews by this user
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Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Friday, June 06, 2008

I've now eaten at Ealing Park Tavern twice in the last week and I've been dissappointed in both occasions. The quality of the basic supplies are good and they advertise where the meat and products come from. But they are seriously let down by the quality the cooking and the menu is unispirational.. Last Friday they kept us waiting for nearly an hour before our starters arrived. I think that the Ealing Park Tavern can no longer be described as a 'Gastro Pub' as they are now cooking and selling basic basic Pub grub. They need to get there act together and get a decent chef if they want to hold on to their position in the market
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Food 1 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 4
Sunday, May 11, 2008

I've lived in Ealing for some time and used to frequent this place regularly. A couple of years back it was firmly positioned as a Gastro pub with the menu chalked up on the board above the kitchen, rickety unmatched furniture and carefree easygoing staff. For the price they were charging it was great.

I recently went back after some time and notices that whilst the furniture is the and the menu is still on the blackboard above the kitchen the style of menu has changed. There has been a concerted effort to move the menu away from gastro pub to something more upmarket. The dishes are slightly more expensive the presentation is completely over the top given your surroundings and I can’t help but feel this place is trying to be something it’s not.

I had the steak, it was nothing special and was ridiculously over presented. Other main at my table were unremarkable. The only positive comment regarding the food was a chocolate desert featuring three mini puddings on one plate. Went down very well.

If you are interested in this type of food head for a place with table cloths who do it properly otherwise you are likely to feel short changed
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Reg
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Food 4 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Friday, April 11, 2008

me and my partner ate here a couple of nights ago and its my favourite place to eat. The service and the food espiecially is always great!!

Starting with the venison, the best ive ever eaten. for mains i had the scallops....which were to die for and my partner had the poached brill in red wine sauce. all really resonably priced we cant believe we have somewhere soo good soo locally to eat.

those that havent been definatley should!
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dave - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, March 28, 2008

reading the reviews below i was shocked. ive eating many a times at the ealing park tavern and i will continue to do so.

Me and my friends ate here for her birthday as the food is always outstanding. i ate the steak, which was the best steak ive eaten, and was surprised to hear that the meat is hung on the actual premises, how fresh can you get?! my friend had the monkfish and she wanted more so ill be taken her back for another sample!

as for the comments below i disagree. its also nice to have a relaxing bar to sit and have a few drinks in quietly, without people eating everywhere, hey thats why theres a restaurant also!! would recommend this gastro.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, March 27, 2008

reading the reviews below i was shocked. ive eating many a times at the ealing park tavern and i will continue to do so.

Me and my friends ate here for her birthday as the food is always outstanding. i ate the steak, which was the best steak ive eaten, and was surprised to hear that the meat is hung on the actual premises, how fresh can you get?! my friend had the monkfish and she wanted more so i'll be taking her back for another sample!

as for the comments below i disagree. its also nice to have a relaxing bar to sit and have a few drinks in quietly, without people eating everywhere, hey thats why theres a restaurant also!! would recommend this gastro.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, March 27, 2008

We will have to find an another pub to eat....

The food and the service used to be very nice but what we found when we went there a few days ago was an unfriendly staff (specially the manager, she was arrogant) and a lack of taste for the food.

The service was slow, we had to wait 30 mns to get our starters and they didn't worth the wait, and about the same time to get our mains whitch we had to send back because the lamb of my husband was just a piece of fat, not meat and my monkfish was still row. When the manager gave us our mains back (with such arrogance!) the lamb dish was much better but my monkfish was overcooked and as I wanted to carry on with the meal I didn't sent it back.

Overall it wasn't a pleasant evening, took to long to get the food. Before they could pretend to be a gastro-pub but with the poor quality of food and service they provide at the moment I don't think so.

I might go back there for a drink but that's all, the pub is really nice but no more food.
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Delfi
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Food 2 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 2
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Oh dear. What a difference new management makes.....

What used to be the best pub restaurant in the Ealing area is now most definately not. Seated in pub as restaurant was full - fine. No table service and 45 mins to get starters - not fine. Being asked if we wanted dessert before we'd even had mains - annoying! Took us about 2.5 hours to finish dinner, the red wine helped somewhat but not enough.

On top of this I had to send back my main twice - I never ever send food back! Venison was overcooked and the replacement steak ordered medium rare came to the table literally mooing. Really disappointing, only good point is that they comped us a bottle of red and one main (only fair seeing as i left without actually eating one!). My husbands steak was nice though and well cooked.

Have been told this pub - which used to be a delightful independently owned gem - has now been taken over by a big chain. Very sad. Might give it one more go though, purely because the food used to be simply lovely....
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Kiwi-Clare
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Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Thursday, March 20, 2008