The Fat Badger Harrogate

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

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   Malcolm

   Yorkshire1 review

   4.0

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   Food well prepared and served prompt. Food very good, great cocktails
   

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   darren

   Yorkshire3 reviews

   4.0

   Dined 4 days ago

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

   Fat Badger in Harrogate is a lovely restaurant, with excellent food. Having eaten in there on a few occasions now, the fillet steaks have been exceptional each and every time. Staff are very good, service is good, the ambience in the restaurant is nice, and the Fat Badger bar is always a great place to have a drink before or after a meal.
   

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   Roy

   Norfolk/Suffolk3 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 5 days ago

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

   Great food cooked to perfection served by attentive and friendly staff. First visit for our party of four and would highly recommend this restaurant for great food and value.
   

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   Andrew

   Cambridge1 review

   5.0

   Dined 5 days ago

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

   Excellent meal and service, I would highly recommend
   

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   Amanda

   Yorkshire1 review

   2.0

   Dined 6 days ago

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

   Had high hopes for such a lovey place. Had a 9.15pm reservation and was told needed to order as the kitchen closed at 9.30pm. Surely the latest reservation should be 9pm if that’s the case. My main came with part of it missing that I had to ask for. Was then practically ignored when we came to wanting to settle our bill which eventually we had to get up and request. Very poor set up.
   

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   Katharine

   Yorkshire3 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 7 days ago

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

   Fantastic food and lovely service. Restaurants is tastefully decorated and very welcoming. The bar area is very nice and again great service.
   

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   tracey

   Buckinghamshire2 reviews

   3.0

   Dined on April 30, 2025

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

   The Fat Badger is nicely appointed it wasn’t busy inside as warm outside just three tables occupied so no ambiance sadly. The menu was limited and they missed a trick by not offering a couple of the starters as a starter or main size - risotto and the mussels. I ended up having two starters instead of a main. Risotto was stodgy not silky and lacked parmigiana but was ok. My husband had Caprese salad to start but had hardly any tomatoes 🍅 but a dish full of olives 🫒 instead? His main was the chicken in broth with spring veg and dumplings. Overall flavour good chicken cooked nicely but the dumplings were too wet and stodgy and lacking in flavour. Wine - Whispering Angel 👌service impeccable really nice guy very young guy serving on Wednesday evening very competent. Disappointed ☹️ overall
   

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   Lean

   Norfolk/Suffolk1 review

   1.0

   Dined on April 27, 2025

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

   Terrible service from head of house-he was rude, aggressive and clearly would rather we were not there. We booked a table for 8.15 and arrived late at 8.21 - we were time the kitchen shut in 9 minutes so if we didn’t order in next 9 minutes we couldn’t eat. There are ways of speaking to customers and approaching a late arrival- all be it 6 minutes, but his manner was so poor I would have walked out but I was treating a guest and didn’t want to let them down. The rest of the waiters were delightful and attentive and the found was nice, but he ruined what should have been a great evening.
   

   The Fat Badger HarrogateResponded on April 28, 2025

   Brilliant to read, thank you very much for your wonderful review. Come back soon The Fat Badger
   

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   Helen

   Yorkshire1 review

   5.0

   Dined on April 26, 2025

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

   Beautiful restaurant, very professional service. We had the fish and chips, tasted very fresh, no complaints. A very nice restaurant for a special occasion. Would definitely recommend and return.
   

   The Fat Badger HarrogateResponded on April 28, 2025

   Brilliant to read, thank you very much for your wonderful review. Come back soon The Fat Badger
   

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    Michael

    Yorkshire4 reviews

    2.0

    Dined on April 25, 2025

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

    We visit Harrogate regularly and have done so for many many years. We have usually dined at the Fat Badger. Up until recently we haven't encountered any problems. My wife has special dietary requirements and last year she told by the waitress there was nothing she could eat. So my wife asked to speak to the person managing the restaurant and thankfully they did find her something to eat. This year not wishing one bad experience to put us off we went back again. Having been shown to our table and ordered our meal we then waited 48 minutes before the food arrived. During which time we were asked to confirm our order a second time then waited a further 20 minutes for our meal to arrive. The most gauling thing about the whole experience was a table of 6 next to us arrived twenty minutes after we did and had almost finished their meal before ours arrived. We had planned on dining on two nights, however we subsequently cancelled the second night and won't be dining there again.
    

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