The Cowherds

Carol Ann P. • 1 review

4 August 2024

7.5/10

The food is excellent. Not enough staff on a Sunday evening, they struggled with getting the orders in and delivering the food. Not their fault they tried very hard to help every customer.

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Josephine G. • 2 reviews

12 June 2024

10/10

Great food good service and lovely atmosphere. Parking can be a bit of a problem as popular with students and dog walkers. Best to book especially in good weather due to its proximity to the common.

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Colin O. • 2 reviews

11 January 2024

9.5/10

THE FOOD WAS WELL COOKED AND DELICIOUS AND DELIVERED WITH JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF INTERVAL BETWEEN COURSES, WHICH WAS GOOD FOR A BUSY PUB RESTURANT. wILL RETURN.

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Julie M. • 4 reviews

7 January 2024

10/10

There was a bit of a wait for our table and a slow queue at the bar. However the staff were helpful and friendly. I am a coeliac and they were well informed about their food and gluten. The food was good and reasonably priced. We enjoyed our lunch and would go back again.

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Sally G. • 1 review

15 December 2023

10/10

We were a table of 8 on our Work's Xmas 'do'.and had pre-booked. We were seated on a lovely big table by the window and our waitress checked our food orders with us and advised it would be a 20 minute wait, which was fine. The food was delicious, plentiful and piping hot. Very good value and the waitress was lovely. We paid one lump sum in cash and the transaction very easy and stress free. Would definitely recommend 👌

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Julie W. • 1 review

8 November 2023

10/10

Absolutely lovely food and very friendly staff.

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Martin K. • 1 review

28 October 2023

7.5/10

The steaks were very disapionting, full of grisell and difficult to ear

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Patricia A. • 4 reviews

6 August 2023

4.5/10

A lot of oil on the plates from either the roast potatoes, or roast vegetables. Parsnips hard and other veg not soft. Very disappointing! (Had to take serviette to soak up the oil)

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Ruth P. • 1 review

13 May 2023

4.5/10

Polite and welcoming staff. Four people at the table for 12 noon lunch. Two choices were immediately unavailable - fish and chips and lasagne. Or birthday girl had been looking forward to her fish and chips treat. No obvious gluten free options for one of our table. Helpful waiting staff helped with this. Creamy seafood linguini lacked creamy texture. Mentioned to staff. Little or no meringue in the mini Eaton mess. Other mini pudds were excellent, though were served after coffee had long been drunk. Service was exceptionally slow and was clearly not the fault of the waitress who was helpful throughout, though she appeared embarrassed at everyone’s long wait around our area of the restaurant. A busy pub but by no means full. I hope that my comments are useful to aid your staff training. The Cowherds setting was a very pleasant way to catch up with friends and mark a significant birthday. Ruth Phillips

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Eleni T. • 1 review

30 April 2023

9.5/10

The food was fresh, tasty and nicely presented. The staff was very welcoming. They even allowed us to improvise a small birthday party. Very cosy atmosphere. All in all, a very pleasant experience. I would go there again.

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Vicky G. • 1 review

4 March 2023

10/10

Great food, great service . Lovely place , lots of friendly people . Will definitely be dining here again . All the staff were beyond helpful and always with a smile x

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Sandra C. • 1 review

1 February 2023

8/10

Staff were very friendly and service was good. Food was good but mash a bit hard round some edges. Food only Luke warm and did not spot any pancetta in my “chicken and pancetta pie”. We were all pleased with our desserts. Several tables full when we arrived but by 9pm we were the only ones in the pub! So not much atmosphere.

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Deborah R. • 1 review

28 January 2023

7.5/10

I booked a dog friendly table for a party of 3 in advance. Then I called to let them know we would be 30 minutes late due to traffic and was told that this was ok. When we arrived there was no dog friendly table available. Luckily we had decided not to bring the dogs at the last minute but it could have been at total wipe out. Our waiter was polite and helpful. He did make a mistake with our order. One of our meals came out of the kitchen cold. The cold part was replaced. The meal was over £60. The whole experience should have been perfect but it most certainly was not.

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Paul M. • 1 review

15 January 2023

10/10

Warm friendly atmosphere staff was very professional and spot on. Meal was superb l strongly recommend going for lunch or evening meal. Lots of choice on the menu too Thank you will definitely be booking again soon

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SARAH-RUTH S. • 8 reviews

20 May 2022

10/10

Always a lovely time, restaurant was a bit hit this time, but the radiators were on in May

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Shirley Y. • 1 review

18 April 2022

9/10

Lovely little pub in Southampton which we often visit when picking our daughter up from university

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Maureen B. • 1 review

3 April 2022

6.5/10

Lovely restaurant and excellent service. One disappointment was that my lasagne was, at best, tepid and tasteless. My other half enjoyed his choice of Hunter’s Chicken.

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Christine B. • 4 reviews

17 February 2022

7/10

Very crowded and staff very busy covering all tables. Chicken and sea bass meals were good, the lamb dish a little less so. Apple pie was well received, but apple and blackberry crumbles had been left too long in the microwave and my spoonful of crumble was more like a sprinkling. We did not consider it good value for the bill of £138.

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David S. • 1 review

29 January 2022

8.5/10

Sometimes in the past the food and Service at the Cowherds has been disappointing, But today they have really upped their game. The food was very good and the service by our waitress Yasmin was excellent.

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Fionna A. • 1 review

9 January 2022

8.5/10

We come here once a month for Sunday lunch with our Son when we visit him a Southampton Uni and we are so glad we found it. Lovely place with fabulous staff. Our waitress was Claire again today and she is friendly, helpful and fun. See you next month :)

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