Beech Hurst Haywards Heath

I liked the waitress, Abi, she was extremely nice and fun. They've taken too many people for what they can handle. Didn't like the extremely long wait. We booked a table and had to wait 35 mins, 4 sets of people who walked in got tables before us. You had to wait for people to serve you in the salad bar and some people had to wait for at least 15 minutes. They ran out of plates and bowls at the salad bar, the rolls were frozen cold. Dinner was fairly fast, came out in just over half an hour (about the same time as the table wait), gave up with desert. Dinner was okay, the other people I was with didn't like theirs.

Well after some frankly terrible reviews on Facebook the place shutdown and was refurbished. I can only think the bad reviews were due to staffing issues caused by COVID as we had always been happy with the food here. It's of note there's no more unlimited breakfast and some issues with the salad bar!
The inside sit down area is large and well spaced with some good window tables if the weather is poor when you visit. There is also undercover seating outside.
For me the highlight used to be the superb staff, despite working long hours they all seemed without exception happy, helpful and exceptionally good at keeping the customer happy we shall see if this continues now it's open again

Great place for recreation, having fun with the kids on the lawn or playground, enjoying picnics or just watching the world passing by. A big bonus is the Harvester Restaurant right on the grounds, which is lovely for a nice cool drink or even a meal.

The staff here are really lovely however there is something not right with the workflow or the kitchen simply isn't big enough. It took an hour and five minutes for our food to arrive and we were by no means exceptional. If they can resolve this issue then this will be a great place for a family meal.

Cheryl was angelically kind when we came to the restaurant.

She has a lot of courage to serve her clients the way she does. I had the impression of being served at home by my mom!

So I want to thank Cheryl once again for this great time.

If I come back to this restaurant, it will be as much to see Cheryl again as to eat something.

We’ve just eaten at the Beech Hurst Harvester in the way back from a wet and windy afternoon on the beach. I had the dirty vegan burger and to be honest it was a bit over cooked (as veggie burgers often are as they don’t need to be cooked as long as meat ones). I mainly came in here to write a review because of our fab waitress, Chloe. She went above and beyond the usual service. She checked out a few voucher offers that we had, to see if they worked, and was so helpful with our two little fussy eaters (one veg dodger, one with no front teeth 🤣) even getting a few chips extra for them so they didn’t have to share a plate. She was a natural with them, which led to the littlest one declaring his love to her! So thank you so much Chloe! Keep on doing what you do as you’re a gem (give this amazing woman a bonus!)

Lovely food and lovely server. We had had a lovely family evening.

Went for a lovely Christmas meal with colleagues. Wonderful places to have great meal. Lovely staff, especially the bartender who made a lovely passion fruit Martin.