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The Olive Tree Restaurant

British, French • Wells

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3.9/5

(01749) 673866 5 Sadler Street, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2RR (01749)6…Show

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British Modern and French-style cuisine in the heart of Wells, close to the historic cathedral.

About The Olive Tree Restaurant

Situated in the centre of Wells close by the historic cathedral, The Olive Tree Restaurant opened in September 2022. The restaurant has two ground floor dining areas – one looking out onto the high street and the other with an open kitchen – plus an upstairs dining room that’s ideal for private parties and can seat up to 32. The menu majors on British Modern and French-style cuisine.

Sugarvine

3.9

Food 4.3/5

Service 4.1/5

Atmosphere 4.1/5

Value for Money 3.2/5

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Mon	closed
Tue	closed
Wed	12:00 - 15:00	—
Thu	12:00 - 15:00	18:00 - 22:00
Fri	12:00 - 15:00	18:00 - 22:00
Sat	12:00 - 15:00	18:00 - 22:00
Sun	12:00 - 16:00	—

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4.8

Elizabeth Twining

A pleasant venue and excellent service at sensible prices. We were there for lunch and the two-course special menu was very good value. The food was delicious. Only one caveat - one of our party is diabetic and needed some bread with her meal. We were warned that there would be an extra charge but £2.40 for four small slices did seem a lot.

Kirsty

The service was friendly and quick; the food was delicious and very hot. The dauphinoise potatoes were incredible and I highly recommend people choose their main meal around having that as a side. I would definitely come back next time I'm in Wells.

Godwin

Excellent delicious food and good service .

Al Whitley

The food was exceptional,reasonably priced, and beautifully cooked. The staff were very friendly and attentive. It was our second visit to the restaurant .We will be back.Cant recommend it enough.

Peter

Warm welcome. Good but not outstanding food and service.

Samm Jones

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.

Tom

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!

Sue L

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.

Jeanette

Lovely Sunday lunch as usual.

Katrina

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.

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