The Bay Tree Brasserie - Mid Sussex

The staff were well presented, unfortunately that’s where the positives end. No steak and no lamb. They had the salmon but nothing to go with it. They had no vegetables! The menu is quite limited to start without them running out of most things. The service was slow and the waitress kept getting things wrong. We will not be returning, it was quite expensive for what it is and it wasn’t very nice. It’s not hard to get the basics wrong, but they got it very wrong. Simply shocking.

I used this restaurant while staying at the Crowne Plaza. Good, tasty food well presented. But don't go when they are full. Very slow service. Also no ambience. But pleasant foog

The menu is small, but the prices are fair, especially if you take advantage of the 25% discount with the Barclays Bank App. The food and presentation are decent, although not exceptional.

For my meal, I ordered a chicken, avocado, and asparagus salad. Unfortunately, the salad consisted mainly of lettuce with very few pieces of asparagus. There were only a few sun-dried tomatoes, a couple slices of chicken breast, and a minimal amount of dressing on the plate. After finishing my meal, I had to wait 25 minutes for a lemon posset dessert. Surprisingly, there were only two other customers in the restaurant at the time. Overall, this is not a place I would recommend for a romantic date night. Even the nearby Chef and Brewer restaurant across the street offers a better dining experience.

Absolutely shocking! Very little choice on the menu for starters. Finally ordered and they they get the drinks wrong. Then our meals come out. Both had steaks. Wrong steaks on the plate. We had each other’s. (one with sweet potato, other with normal chips. I had well done, husbands was medium/rare. After swapping as mine was clearly rare, I then saw that the other was medium rare! No well done! But it was inedible! The sheer amount of grizzle on the steak made it unable to eat… sent back and the manger came to speak to me… offered another stake as well as my husband as his was the same… although he couldn’t be sure another stake wouldn’t be like it again as they’ve had a lot of complaints about the stakes! He goes and checks… comes back and says actually they are all that bad, and stake is off the menu! Would I like anything else? We’ll not much choice when stake is off, as is the sweet potato curry and the pepper pasta!! Bit screwed if your a veggie or vegan… like the table next to us… who were offered just small salad for dinner!!! I ordered the curry, that came 30 mins later by which point my husband had finished his food… he decided to eat the steak bits he could plus the chips…. All we was offered to say sorry was a free drink… we don’t even drink alcohol.. so a free coke or water?! After refusing a free water, they eventually offered 1 free pudding! Left the table still hungry!!! Lovely anniversary meal… cheers!!