Riggers - Poole

The restaurant has a wonderful setting with a picturesque atmosphere, but unfortunately, the food did not meet expectations. This was my second visit in a month and both times the carvery was disappointing - the food was not hot and the lamb was tough. Despite being called a carvery, you are not able to serve yourself, which was also a letdown. The kitchen needs to be improved in order to provide better quality dishes.

We booked a table for 15 people, adults and children, for afternoon tea. The service was excellent and the food was lovely. Plenty of food for everyone and the staff were so attentive making sure we always had enough to drink. Would definitely recommend and will certainly be back!

We have visited this restaurant multiple times, with our most recent visit being in June 2023. The menu always offers a variety of options, including many vegetarian dishes. I made a reservation online for my husband's birthday meal before we headed to the theatre. I mentioned in the booking that we were on a tight schedule due to the theatre show. Unfortunately, on this occasion, the only vegetarian main dish available was a falafel burger or pizza. The menu did not clearly indicate which items were vegetarian or vegan. The service was slow, with our starter arriving 20 minutes after ordering. After 40 minutes, our main course still hadn't been served. We informed another waiter that we may have to leave if our food didn't arrive soon. Despite informing the waitress when ordering that I was a vegetarian, I was mistakenly served a chicken burger. Because of our time constraints, I was offered a complimentary bowl of chips. This birthday meal will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. I would not recommend this restaurant for vegetarians or for those in a hurry.

The whole place was empty we were the only diners and I can see why. The menu is pretty limited. “King prawns” were small defrosted prawns in tasteless butter. Chicken burger and chicken skewers both dry and chewy. Pizza very good.

We were staying in the college and on the second night having looked at the menu we decided to eat in the restaurant. We reserved a table and were sat down. Firstly the menus we were given didn’t have staters and we had to wait 10 minutes or to get correct menus. When we were sat down we were told they would come and talk to us about the specials but that didn’t happen until we prompted a member of staff. The service from the staff was slow and the restaurant wasn’t that busy. Eventually when we were told about the specials we were also told about 3 things that they didn’t have which left hardly anything that I wanted. The fries were actually chips and the apple crumble was tasteless. The food we did have was nice and hot but despite the staff being pleasant the service really let the whole experience down.