Launay's - Newark and Sherwood

Lovely setting and food was delicious. However meal was served separate to the vegetables and my husband had eaten his meal before the veg arrived and my meal was going cold . Appeared too busy had too many covers to cope with so service very poor. The staff did apologise but unfortunately spoilt our experience. Every effort was made however to bring fresh meal and veg but the food was delayed my husband had to eat his meat separate to his veg . Simply it was not good enough on this occasion

Food was average, service was poor. Has to ask to order and getting anyone’s attention was a task. Won’t return

The venue pitches itself as a gastro pub but there’s some basics it needs to get right. We visited last week. Our service was consistently poor, members of our party had to repeatedly get up to ask for drinks/sides/clean cutlery/bill and then Chase up Courses that hadn’t arrived for us all and the venue wasn’t massively busy. Stock up on drinks! to run out on a busy Friday night is poor, especially with such bad quality cocktails included. Chicken not cooked through, the mains were sent back there was no apology, replacement or explanation to us. On one of the party getting up to find and check with our server if we would get a replacement or substitution they said they’d check and we heard no more from him. Dessert arrived ok but not to my taste which is subjective but the cocktails were very very, weak and tasteless. We were told by other diners at a Pub down the road we bumped into that they noticed shots of rum were going out with the cocktails (which we didn’t get) you’d think after mentioning the weak drinks we may have received these?! The menu was a bowl of sweet potato chips dip to share, a curried minced beef pastie. Uncooked chicken and rice and a slice of cheesecake… with 3 watery drinks so for £45 a head we felt very short changed. The bill never came so waited in line at the bar to pay, unbelievably no discount for all of our issues we’d raised throughout the night. Generally poor food/service throughout.

We dropped in here for an impromptu decision after being in church and needing to eat. The menu was excellent and the food was even better. Complete gem of a place. Great value for top quality food. We will be returning!

My Brother booked the restaurant for my Birthday lunch. A lovely setting with friendly staff and the service was spot on. We all had a delicious Sunday lunch- fish and roasts. All cooked perfectly. We would absolutely recommend it and return again if we visited the area again. Thanks