Reviews in Bristol and Somerset

I'm going to preface this review with the following - I love this restaurant, it is currently my favourite in Wells. I've eaten here a few times and the food had also been cooked to perfection. I've eaten here in the evening, for a weekday lunch and most recently, Sunday lunch. Also, the service has always been fantastic. But I also have to say... I went, with my partner for Sunday lunch a week ago (birthday treat for him). He ordered the roast beef and it looked amazing. Decent portion sized and he said it was delicious. As a chef I could tell by looking the meat was cooked perfectly. I tried some of his tenderstem broccoli and it was perfection. I don't eat meat. There was only one non-meat option on the menu (no fish option either) and I didn't really fancy it. That's not to say it wasn't good, I just didn't like the sound of it personally. Given there was nothing else on the menu I could eat, the waitress suggested I have 2 starters instead and I readily agreed. This seemed like the perfect solution (The price of 2 veggie starters equalled the exact amount of the vegan roast). So I ordered the vegan pate with toasted brioche and halloumi salad with orange. Both were lovely but also tiny. Four tiny pieces of haloumi with a garnish rather than a salad and 2 tiny slithers of pate with barely any bread. 3 bites each and they were gone. Neither my partner nor I are big pudding eaters, especially at lunchtime but he did fancy the cheese board. At £11 (the most expensive option) I assumed this would either contain some really nice, fancy cheeses (we're spoilt in the West Country for amazing cheese and I don't just mean cheddar) or be big enough to share, just a little bit. Unfortunately it came with 3 little slithers of cheese - a meh stilton, cheddar and brie. They weren't awful but there are so many better ones around locally, especially for Cheddar. Could I recommend a nice Yarg maybe?). And it wasn't enough to share. To be fair, it wasn't advertised as a sharing place but at £11, I expected more. All of that said. I still highly recommend this place. Just be careful what you order if you're hungry! A tiny bit more food, at the the same prices, wouldn't hurt.

Wonderful meal , very flavourful starters and main. This is the second time we have eaten here ( we live a long way from Wells, and ate here last summer) . Both times we really enjoyed our time at the Olive Tree. Very lovely , friendly , waitresses too!

What troopers! Yesterday was so hot, I was dreading going out for lunch. Despite the limited menu and shorter opening hours, we were still delighted with our tasty meals. They kept the cold water coming and remained calm under pressure of the nearly full restaurant and high temperature.

Disappointing. It was our wedding Anniversary. We booked for 12.30pm and arrived a few minutes early. We chose a light lunch option - Devon scollops and ordered a glass of Pinot Grigio. We sipped an average wine and waited. Our light bite was served to us 35 minutes later with an apology that they had lost our order. The three small scollops, costing us £12 seemed very small, although the taste was good. We decided to go to go to Carwardins for our coffee. We will not be going back.

Superb staff, excellent customer service. Booked for two (plus a dog) on Friday 10th - staff were really welcoming and friendly, the food was delicious (soup / fish and chips) Lovely and quiet - I give the whole experience 10 ********** Thank you - and much appreciated

Lovely food, in a lovely location and great service as well. What more can l say.

I had a fabulous brunch today (Raspberry and hazelnut French toast with cream) absolutely delicious. Lovely atmosphere and good service. I’m already looking forward to my next visit!

Lovely, friendly waitresses with a sense of humour & a delicious brunch - what more do you need?

Lovely Sunday lunch as usual.

Disappointed compared to previous meals here..sadly the service was very slow on this occasion. More than 30 minutes even to get drinks to the table ,! The food was okay but not up to previous standards and the meat and potato portions were on the small side for a Sunday roast. Definitely glad of the extra sides we ordered.

Amazing food and amazing service. Great way to spend Saturday afternoon with friends

My husband and I had a lovely time at the Olive last night - Would love to say food was great, but sadly first off they forgot our starter, so had them for seconds, with our blessing. The sad part was the grit! As the muscles were very gritty, so much so I couldn’t finish. Informed front of house but apart from being sorry that was it! Not really what I would expect from a good restaurant. This put behind us the overall food quality was very good - just front of house and maybe suppliers that need to up their game.

The food was delicious, the portions , generous and the service altogether friendly and accommodating. Will definely go again!

Delicious lunch sitting outside under an umbrella Delicious home made cordial Great coffee Happy times

A lovely lunch in the sunshine

The food was fantastic and couldn’t fault the kitchen staff one bit. If the review was based on food alone then this would be 5*. However, the service was terrible. The restaurant was pretty much empty but the waitress took an incredibly long time to do anything and after waiting a while for the drinks to arrive we had to get up and ask for them as they’d been forgotten. I’d definitely go back and just hope that next time the service will be better. It’s just a shame that the service doesn’t match the level the kitchen staff are giving to the customer.

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