The Pavilion And Kitchen - Barnsley

Instead of having to be in Sheffield, I had the opportunity to take my wife for a surprise lunch at one of our locals, Nothing fancy Jacket Potato with Katsu Curry and a Hot Roast Beef Sandwich but both very good plus wine and enjoyable chat with the friendly staff making up for horrific local traffic problems earlier in the day.

Only us and one other table in. We ordered some dishes from the tapas menu and a side of fries. £3.95 for a very small portion of fries served in a tiny plant pot although they were hot and freshly cooked. Other dishes weren’t up to much. Chicken bao buns were cold, chicken had no seasoning or slaw at all and ‘asian slaw’ was a very measly serving of pickled cabbage. Chorizo was fine, hard to get wrong. Creamy mushrooms were nice but ciabatta was barely toasted. Greek meatballs were gristly and the sauce was bland. Staff were pleasant and service was good but would definitely not be in a rush to return for food.

Excellent service-manager had excellent customer experience. I had the tapas which was very good. Cooked well and excellent presentation. Certainly a place I would go back to -looks like it could be lively in the evening!! Definitely worth a look at if you are in Barnsley-thoroughly recommend!!

In fact there have been two lunch time visits inside a month a whole family one (sitting outside with family pooch) and just a twosome today (both taking advantage of the Lunchtime menu). First visit involved Chicken Caesar, Tuna Melt, Katsu Chicken Curry with Jacket Potato and Club Sandwich. The last one came with the wrong bread but all were enjoyable plus the staff were helpful and friendly. Today's lunch should have been Fish Finger Sandwich and Hot Beef Sandwich but alas the latter had sold out so it became two Fish Finger Sandwiches (in ciabatta) washed down with Chardonnay. Very pleasant!. My other half would have liked more tartare sauce on the fish goujons but mine was fine and the skin on fries must have been good because some of mine were pinched.

Went here with my daughter to book and pay deposit for a babyshower. Decided to have lunch first ordered 2 jacket potatoes with toppings, when came one was given to a different table but this was sorted promptly. I took one bite and realised mine was cold ask my daughter about hers and she said hers was cold too we told staff they said we will get fresh ones done. About 15 mins later we both received another which were the same ones just reheated and reshaped. And yet again first bite cold again the manager came to our table and said he'd seen them come out of the oven himself, I told him to touch the potatoe as I wasn't eating it anyway and yes it was cold he couldn't understand why. Faulty microwave in my opinion. We didn't pay for our drinks as consolation but haven't booked the baby shower either. Only ten people in the restaurant at the time and we weren't the only ones sending cold food back.