The Black Bull Hotel

Review summary

1. P

   Paul

   Cumbria1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 18, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Nice friendly place lively staff good food dog friendly.
   

   The Black Bull HotelResponded on February 27, 2025

   Hi Paul, Thank you for your lovely review! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed the friendly atmosphere, lively staff, good food, and our dog-friendly policy. We look forward to welcoming you and your furry friend back soon! Cheers, The Black Bull Team
   

   Is this helpful?

2. O

   Olivia

   London1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 15, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 3

   Good pub dinner with really kind and helpful service that lifted it above the ordinary.
   

   The Black Bull HotelResponded on February 27, 2025

   Hi Olivia, Thank you for your lovely review! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed your pub dinner and found our service exceptional. We look forward to welcoming you back soon. Cheers, The Black Bull Team
   

   Is this helpful?

3. M

   Martin

   Cumbria1 review

   5.0

   Dined on December 25, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Had a great Christmas Day lunch there..staff were friendly and happy made are Christmas happy and fun
   

   Is this helpful?

4. A

   Angela

   Central Texas13 reviews

   2.0

   Dined on December 22, 2024

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 2

   Service was very poor as only 1 lady working and had to serve the food and serve behind the bar. Food wasn’t very good either.
   

   Is this helpful?

5. L

   Laura

   Yorkshire2 reviews

   1.0

   Dined on July 28, 2024

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 3

   booked a table, other customers had advised they had been waiting over an hour for their food. no wait mentioned when ordering. online menu completely different to what was offered. We ordered two roasts- was told we could only have one meat after ordering. also ordered additional pigs in blankets again told AFTER paying and ordering that these were unavailable. Staff did not apologise once. we asked for a refund and left the food.
   

   Is this helpful?

6. BG

   BridgetG

   Bath2 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on May 14, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   I chose the chicken satay skewers. Sadly the chicken was burnt on the outside and very dry . The coconut and peanut dip tasted only of mayonnaise. The fries were okay. My partner had the suet pudding and mashed potatoes. He ate it all. We had a chocolate pud with vanilla ice cream. The chocolate cake was dry and the vanilla ice cream was grey and didn't taste of vanilla at all. Very disappointed. We have eaten out every night on the CtC and it's been really good but last night even though I was very hungry I left my food. So it wasn't good .
   

   Is this helpful?

7. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   Cumbria1 review

   1.0

   Dined on May 13, 2024

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 1

   The food was mediocre and little vegetarian choices
   

   Is this helpful?

8. MB

   MartinB

   Italy2 reviews

   3.0

   Dined on April 21, 2024

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   We booked for lunch but when we arrived expecting options of the advertised menu we were only offered bar snacks or a selection of burgers. That said they were very nice, the ambience of bar was lovely and the service was great especially from the gorgeous blonde land lady!
   

   Is this helpful?

9. JR

   JohnR

   Cumbria1 review

   4.0

   Dined on February 14, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   It was Valentines Date Night. We were very well looked after all night. The selection of food was very good, Starter-Main-Dessert. All of the food was well prepared, hot and delicious. My wifes steak was cooked exactly as she asked for. Overall a great foody night and looked after by perfect staff.
   

   Is this helpful?

10. P

    Pork

    Newcastle1 review

    1.0

    Dined on February 10, 2024

    1. Overall 1
    2. Food 1
    3. Service 1
    4. Ambience 3

    I ordered the king prawns, nachos and chicken wings. We were a larger party. The food arrived at the same time. The prawns were prepacked frozen variety. Nachos were served cold. Cheese sauce again cold. Wings arrived cold. The rest of my friends food didn’t fare much better. When asked if everything was ok we said no and explained what was the issue. This was shrugged off and didn’t address the issues but rather argue about our opinion. Food was unimaginative and prepared by someone clearly not trained. All in all we paid the bill and left as we would not spend another penny in such a disappointing establishment.
    

    Is this helpful?