Bramblings - Bromsgrove

The menu is limited and slightly pricey, but the food is of very good quality and the portions are large. The restaurant offers a lovely view overlooking the 18th hole.

Nice afternoon tea, service was good with friendly staff was very clean, well kept and clean toilets

There is a full review of this restaurant included of a stay I enjoyed under the title Abbey Hotel!!

We were staying in the Abbey Hotel on a dinner bed and breakfast deal. We were able to choose from a 3 course menu all of which sounded very nice. Starters were OK, I had halloumi and beetroot but it was a little short on beetroot and overly sweet with balsamic. My husband had gravlak which he enjoyed. Both offered bread but had one bite and left it as it was stale. For mains I had chicken and mash with onions and green beans. It needed another veg on the plate and again was overly sweet with another heavy handed addition of balsamic. My husband had 'crispy ' pork belly the majority of the pork was inedible as rather than being crispy it was an un crisped layer of fat and rather unpleasant. For desert my husband had a chocolate tart which was ok. I ordered the special of strudel with ice cream. It was unfortunately not a strudel and not edible. It was a parcel of very hard filo pastry filled with what we suspect was left over tinned fruit from the breakfast buffet, a few currents and a lot of what we think was bread crumbs. It was awful and I left it all. Service was ok except one waitress kept squeezing behind my chair rather than walking round the table next to us. We were not asked how our meals were despite leaving some elements untouched, and weren 't offered a tea or coffee at the end of the meal we aren 't good at complaining and so didn 't raise the issues and regret this. My husband attempted to pay for his wine and the staff seemed unable to work the tills properly. We guess they must be new tills with the refurbishment. All in all we wouldn 't go back. Some elements were Ok but nothing was great and had we paid full price rather than as part of our hotel stay deal we would have been massively dissapointed.

We stayed at the abbey hotel through a secret escapes break. The reception staff were amazing. We were there for three nights and had two meals in the Tawnys bar an absolute shambles) as was the service of the spa booking team. But on our final night we were awarded with a fantastic meal in the brambles restaurant. The staff were really friendly and well organised. They told us exactly how many courses we were allowed,and the service couldn't be faulted. They left you to eat in peace but where there if you needed anything. The food was delicious and it made our last night really memorable.