High Flyer - East Cambridgeshire

My friend held her wedding reception here. The food was lovely, plenty of it and nice and hot. The staff couldn’t do enough for us and we all throughly enjoyed the day! Highly recommend.

I waited to write this as I’ve never had poor quality food here before so I was very sad. We chose the venue for a double birthday it was my daughter’s 21st. We thought it was a bit odd that they served hot spicy soup to my 7 year old I mean I like spice but I tried this omg it was too spicy. She then didn’t want to eat her main. My creamy mushroom was part cold but served on brown toast??? Which was odd. Everyone else enjoyed their caramel chicken so I thought maybe just a blip. Mains.. my daughters burger was good as was my sons and the fish and chips was good. However the carvery was cold. I didn’t want to complain as the staff seemed very nice and were stressed. I then tried the Yorkshire it was so cold even with gravy and stale/hard I broke my tooth. My daughter really wanted desert so we stayed. At no point did anyone ask if we wanted to celebrate the birthday in anyway. So we just had dessert paid was polite and despised it had really gone downhill. I’m not sure is it maybe new chefs? Lack of ingredients it was very poor in comparison to the past and left us a bit disappointed

Poor service: did not understand what the vegetarian in our group had ordered and gave them a random veggie burger on the menu. New staff that didn’t know what they were doing (acceptable) without adequate supervision from other staff (unacceptable). Poor food: undercooked (couldn’t cut though) parsnips, anaemic steak cooked to medium-well when ordered rare, soggy halloumi, a pathetic amount of guacamole in the California burger, pork belly so tough I could barely cut through it… apparently the fish and chips was good though.

I spent a lot of time viewing place to eat around Cambridge and looking at their menus before deciding to visit the high flyer. I choose this venue as it had a good choice of vegetarian options and also a number of my farthers favourite dishes and as we were getting together for his birthday I felt this would be a good choice so I booked a table for our party. On arrival we were given menus with a smaller list of options on, I asked why it wasn't the menu online and wasn't given an answer. So of course pretty much all of my father's favourites were missing along with some of the vegetarian options. Service was very slow, with long gaps between being given menus, orders being taken and the food coming out. The waitress did apologise a couple of times for this, but the restaurant wasn't busy. We have eaten here a few times previously but after this last visit we won't be returning. The food was ok, but nothing special considering how long we had to wait.

I went for lunch with friends on 15th January and was very impressed with the inside of the pub but from then on things went down hill. I chose for my lunch the chicken and leek pie but have an allergy to onions asked if any onion was in the pie as I am OK with leeks. The server went to kitchen came back saying yes it had so I chose hunters chicken instead as I know there isn 't any onion. Well the meal they dished up was not hunters chicken but was chicken breast with bbq sauce plus a small container of chips and a dish of coleslaw which of course contains onion so couldn 't eat it. No other vegetables on the plate and was told if I wanted them they were extra charges which is extortion. The chicken was tough and dry so I left it. My experience was not conducive to me going there again but my friends enjoyed their meals. The person in charge did offer to change meal but I said no as it had taken three quarters of an hour to get the meal we had. I was not offered a free meal in view of the complaint so paid £14.95 for nothing and had 10% service charge put on bill which I made them take off. Really unhappy.