The Shepherd's Crook is a traditional pub-restaurant. It's a place to meet friends and have a chat - and there's no television set to distract you from the craic. We serve good food, for good value. There are daily lunch and dinner specials to supplement the menu. Nineteen draught taps pour only microbrews - we have one pull handle for cask-conditioned 'real ale' - and imports.more...See more text
A few months ago I was ready to ditch this place permanently. The food was always great but the slow, miserable service made me not want to bother. Tonight was completely different. As soon as we found a table we were greeted and given menus. Our server then came and was cheerful, very friendly, made recommendations where requested and checked on us a couple of times to make sure we had everything we needed. The bangers and mash was as good as ever but the fish and chips was some of the best I have tasted. Nice meaty piece of fish cooked in a light batter with great fries. Desserts were great too, the sticky toffee pudding is quite something. Maybe some new faces here, but whatever, it is a great place and back on our favourites list.
4 of us ordered lunch specials which were all adequate, as pubs rarely provide a great surprise. The fries are beautifully dark and crispy & the beer selection is great.
Our waitress was excellent, didn't bother us with "Is everything all right?"
One faux pas: She asked one of us "Are you still working on that?" Who works at dining?
We used to go into this establishment often and recently had a terrible experience with one of the servers. I don't know her name...blondish hair. Anyway, great food but service and treatment was so bad we won't go back at all. Our friends have also experienced the same thing with this woman.
Great food, somebody teach the waitress how to smile please.
We have been to this place several times as the food is great, but we still have to see the waitress with the long blondish hair crack a smile. Best suited to autumn/winter/spring -tasty comfort food, summer special were disappointing. We went this Sunday evening, as usual it took 10 minutes to get noticed and a drink order in, another 10 minutes to get the drinks. The food arrived eventually and it was the usual hot tasty hot pot and pies. No-one came to check if we were all ok and as soon as we had finished eating it was "is that one bill or two separate ones?" and we paid (took another 10 minutes). As we left, there were about 8 people in the place and the waitress ignored us, no goodbye, thank you or anything. The food is good, but that chick should cheer up seriously.
We are moving to Georgetown, so we decided to spend a weekend exploring the area before the move. The food at the Shepherd's Crook is good solid pub food and the atmosphere is nice and cozy. We also had very good service.
We went back late on a Saturday night some drinks and Lemon Meringue Pie and my only comment would be that they could pump the music up a little bit. The music was very quiet, which made the atmosphere seem a little dead.
