Libby's Bread & Wine

We came for dinner and the service was excellent. I love that they accomodated us inside even though we booked the terrace initially. The food and drinks we ordered was full of flavour and dessert was lush! Even though it got busier, service was still attentive. We are going to return again!

If you’re thinking of booking for any special occasion or going in general don’t bother! Reserved a table for my daughter’s birthday and had to provide card details when booking. Arrived to no table reserved for us and got put upstairs to which I can only describe as a run down overspill room and stores for stock! Incredibly disappointed and you could also see this on my daughter’s face. Service was slow and drinks were nearly finished by the time the food came. My husband ordered the full breakfast and was then told they had no sausages until after 11:30. Food is barely edible; Eggs over cooked, bacon covered in black oily burnt bits, mushy hash brown come potato cake. The only decent thing on the plate were the beans and that’s saying something. The cups with sugar packets had dirt and let’s say short and curlys stuck to them. Flies buzzing round. Old birthday balloons floating round the ceiling. Strong smell of grease. £70 for a very disappointing birthday treat. Never again. Ohh and as for the pastries you see…hardly any available!

Popped in for lunch after a pleasant walk locally. Excellent serving and kitchen staff who were clearly an efficient, friendly, helpful team. The food was perhaps a little pricey but very tasty, well presented and generous portions. We would also have bought some bread to bring home because the window display looked very tempting but we forgot! Maybe next time.

Last Thursday (18th June) my Mum and I visited Libbys, we’d been saving it for when we had nice weather, so seeing the how lovely it was going to be, I called on the Tuesday and made a reservation for the evening and on the roof terrace! It was SO lovely! Sat right next to the River Goyt, in the tree’s! We ordered quite a few things plus 2 glasses of wine each (the glasses were perfect - Not the awful stubby ones)! Our waitress Isabella, was so nice! Already looking for rare to our next visit!

Visited around lunchtime so quite a limited menu. When it finally arrived the food was just okay, possibly due to the length of time it had sat under the hot lamps. The service however was really dreadful. Snails pace and we waited so long for the food to come to the table that we nearly gave up and left. The place was reasonably busy but tables available. Our waitress never looked around the tables once to see if customers needed anything and we were not even asked if the food was satisfactory. We ordered more hot drinks and these never arrived before we left. A long time wasted for poor service and indifferent food.

First time this evening and it was wonderful, food was fantastic, brilliant service from rowan - went out of their way twice for us - my dad ordered an off menu drink and instead of saying they didn’t have all the ingredients the bar man ran to the shop for ginger beer and when they ran out of my choice of dessert they made me a fresh strawberry tart without the frangipane. Brilliant service and food! Couldn’t recommend more, brilliant atmosphere for early evening with kids too! Thank you

Sadly our lunch on Sunday was let down by poor service. On arrival it took about 10 minutes to get staff attention, I appreciate that it was busy and it would not be an issue if not for the front of the house member who eventually acknowledged us pushed past us to get to the bar and greeted us with audible sign and overall came across as dismissive. We were then seated to our table upstairs by another member of staff. We were served quickly, food and drinks were nice and it was nice and spacious upstairs, I would however suggest that armchairs by the window are deep cleaned or replaced as they were stained. On leaving we were seen to by the same front of the house staff who once again was quite blunt and it felt like we somehow wronged her personally, which is not the type of service you expect when you pay close to 60£ for a lunch. We’ve had previous positive experiences at Libby’s but I’m not sure that we’ll look to come back again.

I visited yesterday with some friends for brunch. We had booked a table on the terrace but due to the wet weather the day before, they sat us upstairs. We were completely fine with this and understood that they can’t control the weather. Our waitress was extremely blunt and made us seem like we were being an inconvenience for being there which I’ve never experienced before. No friendly welcome whatsoever and we seemed to burden her for asking if there was any more sugar. We then waiting a long time for our food to come out. They did say they were understaffed so we were okay to wait, but when the food came, the wait was not worth it. My friend ordered scrambled eggs which were more like an omelette and our toasties were very basic with chips that were overdone. When we came to pay, the waitress rolled her eyes when we asked to pay separately and asked twice if we could just pay together. There has been a lot of hype about this place over social media but the only good thing about this place is the terrace, definitely not the food or staff