Probably the worst dining experience I've ever had, and I'm 62. There was no draft beer. My girlfriend's plate was dirty and was trying to refuse it when the surley young server just plonked a Yorkshire pudding in it, and said the bits were from that. The ham was almost gone and she was given just a lump of meat, the turkey was ok the beef was again a crag end but he managed to carve her a bit off. After carving at each station he just threw down the knife and fork in almost unruly manner. He was obviously annoyed at me and I was given half the amount, indeed he didn't even attempt to carve me any beef, but just scraped up some bits. The roast potatoes looked burnt so I didn't have any. The cauliflower was overcooked on the outside, and hard in the middle. There was only gravy after quite a long wait, and the saucepan and serving spoon were filthy, despite it being a new batch. During the meal a loud hoovering noise came from the kitchen. I'd of thought it was common sense to do it after customers had left, or at least close the door. I didn't feel I could complain as my girlfriend had taken me there as it was my last night in England for many months. I will never ever visit a Toby Carvery again. read more

Just about a 3! Booked our table, but ended up sitting down waiting for more meat to be cooked, then a ridiculous queue, and then there still wasn't any beef or lamb. The roasties were over cooked. There was one ladle if peas left. The stuffing was just stodgy. Desserts and drinks came quickly. Not sure I'll bother to come back to be honest. read more

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This was an absolute trash place we came in and the queue for the food was at least 20 people long the food was cold at not many items were out to get on the table and there was like no one working in the kitchen. And the idiot with the pony tale was loud and in everyone's face, not appropriate for a family setting at all. Atmosphere was horrible. There were people waiting to be served for like 15 minutes cause no one was cutting the roast. I am 11 and i came with family. I never want to come again. read more

Website says open today 0730-2100. Turned up at 1410 in a party of 4. The doors were locked, no signs offering a reason why. At least 2 staff could be seen inside, 1 of which definitely saw us and did nothing. Will not be back. read more

Booked a table for 4 at 6PM. Que of 20 people for the carvery. Mangers have apperently bokked time off at the same time and left chefs who have no experience running anything in charge. With a guy running the show is super loud and in everyones ear trying to push the service. Everything is cold. You get what you pay for.. but that is not even worth that. Save yourself the disspointment, go to Aldi across the street and cook it yourself read more

Horrible place shit service nothing on the menu was available.. No orange juice only orange cordial, no 7up only 7up sugar free, no Pepsi only Pepsi max!! Why do you even have a menu card?! Shitty and extremely salty sausages! We had to ask for the sausages we were meant to be given at the start. They run out of sausages for the honey and mustard so used the normal sausages. Very unprepared for the day of food service. All the meats were extremely dry and server was putting flakes of meat on the plate instead of normal portions ... Even the gravy couldnt make it any better I definitely would not recommend this branch to anyone. Letting the franchise down. read more

Toby Carvery - British Near Me - Hemel Hempstead, HRT

Whilst small and not very cosy this new Toby in Hemel is alright for a carvery. You get enough meat and there is plenty of veg choice. However I found the quality a bit low. Prefer my own cooking by some distance. The comfort level is average at best. In short I have been to better. It is the only one on this side of town, but I believe Piggies is still open in the Old Town and a short drive to St Albans to find the Prey. read more

Been a few Toby Carverys over the years as I work all over the UK they offer good value. There Roast potatoes could be a lot better and I'm not keen on their Gravy as its not made from stock. This is the worst Toby I have been to, no atmosphere what so ever, very clinical more like a school dining room than a restaurant. It was very busy like a cattle market people very claustrophobic. Never had a problem with Toby's meat before but the beef here was very fatty, like a poor cut of beef. I don't normally complain but it was that bad I had to. On a positive note the waitresses were first class. read more

As someone who's frequented this Toby Carvery on multiple occasions throughout the years, I've had a generally positive attitude to towards this place. Unfortunately, tonight's attendance completely ruined that positive outlook. - Upon arrival, the host had no record of our booking, despite us having a confirmation email for said booking. This was fine, as the restaurant had many tables available, though the host, instead of showing us to a table, promptly left us with only a comment of sitting on one side of the restaurant instead of the other. - Taking our seats, we found ourselves waiting over an hour for any service. No staff attended to us to offer us drinks or to take our orders in any way, and we were left somewhat affronted by the lack of service. As cliche as it sounds, other people had come and sat down after us and were being serviced as normal, while we were left sat at our table as though we had never come in and sat down in the first place. - Since we were getting no service, we had to flag down a waiter so we could order some drinks and ask for some cutlery. They went and got our drinks, though managed to get one of them wrong, and completely forgot the cutlery altogether. In the end, after another thirty minutes or so, I got up to ask a waiter if we could have any cutlery, to which they flagged down the original waiter to bring us some. - The carvery itself was fine. Food was as to be expected after we finally managed to get some cutlery so we could actually get some food and eat. - As the other restaurant guests began to filter out and the place became quieter, we were still left with no service. By this point we were astounded; no one had come to ask us about how our meals were, no one came to take our plates, and no one came to offer us dessert. It was if we weren't there! Customers who had come in after us had had entire meals and full service and had left in half the time that we had been sitting there waiting for someone to serve us in any way. - We were the last customers there. This was not due to us wishing to stay there, but simply because if we wanted anything done, we had to do it ourselves. After finishing our main meals, we sat there chatting for a while, waiting for someone to come by and take our plates so we could ask for dessert or for the bill. No one came; the staff began to pack away for the night as we sat there like a couple of turnips, ignored and, by this point, thoroughly frustrated. It was ten o'clock and we wanted the bill and to go home; staff packed away their things, the waiters who hadn't bothered to serve us had their coats on as they closed up, and everyone ignored us. I had to go to someone behind the bar to ask for the bill, to which they replied, "Sure, in a moment," as if we hadn't already waited long enough. The bill came, brought over by one of the waiters and left on our table with no comment or no offer of a card machine. Thankfully we all had money on us to pay, and we left with our hours old dirty plates still sat on the table, still ignored by any staff still milling around. Honestly, I've never felt so disappointed by a restaurants service before. There are times when service hasn't been brilliant, though this is usually down to one or two things being accidentally forgotten, or a restaurant being busy. All things easily forgiven, with the meal being lovely overall. Tonight's "service" (or lack thereof) was atrocious, and I'm appalled at how terrible it was. There are no excuses for it; the restaurant wasn't busy, other customers were getting served as they should, and all we were looking for was the bare minimum of a restaurants service. Won't bother returning here, and if I find myself hungry while driving by this way, I'll stop by the Domino's or Subway next door! read more

Food was ok but terrible service. -Had booked a reservation online and had received a confirmation text, but when I got there, they didn't have a record of it. This wasn't a major issue as there were a few free tables. -We were there an hour before we got cutlery and drinks. When we were sat down, none of the waiting staff asked us if we wanted any drinks, and we finally managed to call a staff member over to ask for drinks and cutlery. It took quite a while to get this to considering we only asked for refills and would have been happy to just have gotten glasses and done this ourselves. When we got the drinks, one of them was incorrect. -The carvery was ok once we got to it. There was plenty of meat available and a good choice of vegetables. However, I have been to other Toby Carvery's, such as the one in Lower Earley, Reading where the quality was better. -Felt completely ignored by the staff. No-one asked us if our meals were ok, no-one bothered to clear our table, no-one asked us if we would like desserts after we'd finished our mains. The dirty plates were still on our table when we left an hour or so after we'd finished eating. Overall, I'm very disappointed. I used to go here often as it was good and local, but I won't be going again. read more

I've used the Toby Carvery restaurant at Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead a few times since it opened last year as it's very local to me. Although i'm a bit fussy about eating roast food (I'm rarely in the mood for it any day other than Sunday) there's not many carvery's in this area so I was glad one opened. It's actually quite a small restaurant and I imagine at peak times you could be waiting for a table, however i've used it at quieter times and enjoyed it, customer service is good and the restaurant is comfortable. I've found no faults with the food whatsoever. I'm on the Toby Carvery email mailing list and regularly receive money off vouchers for this specific restaurant i've never paid full price for a meal here thanks to the coupons read more