The Folly

The Folly reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

1. JH

   JacquelineH

   Bedfordshire1 review

   4.0

   Dined on February 25, 2020

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Very nice enjoyable meal, lovely presentation, service was good and friendly. Will definitely be returning.
   

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2. HS

   HeatherS

   London2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on March 9, 2019

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   A lovely location for a girly lunch as a frequent visitor, I would highly reccomend, gorgeous food very well presented.
   

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3. DA

   DavidA

   London1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 20, 2019

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   I have visited the Folly many times. It is my favourite restaurant. The food is excellent and the menu choices well balanced for a variety of tastes. The service is very friendly, attentive and knowledgeable. I would recommend this restaurant to any discerning customer who finds themselves in this neck of the woods. A thoroughly enjoyable experience all round.
   

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   Chris

   London23 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on January 10, 2019

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   Enjoyed our meal, particularly the pork belly and chocolate fondant. Will come back.
   

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   gwc333 VIP

   London426 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on November 24, 2018

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   Great value lunch with extremely good and friendly service well worth the stop on the way to Blackpool
   

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6. NS

   NeddySeagoon

   Buckinghamshire2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on November 4, 2018

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   A sensational Sunday Lunch, a friendly welcome and great service. A great choice of food, and every element of our meal was superb. Roasts were delicious, portion sizes perfect and the wine a perfect compliment to it all. My five year old was brilliantly looked after and had a great choice of food, not always the case in even the better restaurants. We felt so welcome and nothing seemed any trouble for the staff. We visited for a special occasion and had a really memorable visit. Thank you to Robert and all the staff. I would recommend The Folly to everyone , treat yourself! Don’t be put off by the roadworks chaos in Towcester either!
   

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7. NC

   NickC

   San Francisco1 review

   2.0

   Dined on September 16, 2018

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 2

   Booked this based on v good trip adviser reviews. Looking at website menu & prices the expectation was that this pub is very definitely aimed at the posh end of things. If anything more high end than I wanted that weekend but they had availability where a couple of other pubs on my list didn't so I went for it anyway and booked. Welcome in the bar was warm, first impression of the formica table and the rather cafeteria glasses plonked on it was rather unsettling but I told myself the food would more than make up for such a trivialities. The wait to order drinks and food was about right. It being a Sunday my Dad and I ordered roast lamb, and my daughter ordered whitebait. The wait for the food was long. The roasts arrived with huge Yorkshire puddings (will never understand that with lamb but not complaining) which turned out to be rather crispy, the lamb thinly sliced and swimming in gravy was lovely and tender but was tepid! The vegetables were an uninspired boiled collective including cubes of swede that I haven't seen or endured since school dinners. The whitebait were rather too large for my 10 year old daughter's sensibilities but that's our issue not the Folly's - they were nicely cooked in a spicey batter, but I was expecting the usual 1-2 inch long fish not the 3 inch ones that arrived and she tried to eat them but freaked out and finished off my by now cold lamb so I think I won that exchange ;-) I made it up to her with a pudding (2 different sorbets) which took so long to arrive she had to leave half of it or risk 'brain freeze.' In a final irony, you know how in some restaurants you are inundated by inquiries as to whether your food is ok? In this case if I had been asked I'd have sent back the food in favour of something that was actually hot but no one asked, and as my dad is struggling with dementia I wasn't going to call someone over and cause a scene. Ambience might be good at other times but don't expect much on a Sunday lunchtime.
   

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   dalste

   Bedfordshire1 review

   3.0

   Dined on August 5, 2018

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 2

   The lamb main was fantastic as was the deserts. It's not quite up there in terms of "fine dining", but a reasonably nice place to visit with some decent food all the same.
   

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9. LW

   LindaW

   London4 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on July 18, 2018

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   Fabulous little restaurant very close to Silverstone and we always make the effort to dine there. Great choice of food and good selection of wines. Staff have always been very helpful and welcoming to us. Nice size of restaurant for us not too big and great atmosphere.
   

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10. OT

    OpenTable Diner

    London19 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on July 8, 2018

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    This was our first visit to the Folly for my mothers special milestone birthday and certainly won’t be the last visit. The food was delicious and very good value. The manager was also extremely accommodating in terms of ensuring we got our seating preference, which was outside. If you are pondering whether to try/visit, then do so, definitely worth a visit and not too far from Towcester race course /Silverstone and Stoke Breune.
    

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