eat the bird in Taunton Deane

Jami was lovely, 10/10 service.

Food was amazing, our server was Emilia and she was lovely and very accommodating! Bertie handled our drinks which were great, sami was present lol

Well where do I start… For my birthday I thought I’d try somewhere I’ve never been, drove nearly an hour to get there even showed up early! Which is not like me… Eat the bird £50 may well of flushed it down the toilet! 7:30 was our booking time Like I said before showed up early (7:15). Got seated and that’s where the sh*t began. Got told the restaurant was table service so we sat and waited about 45 minutes! I then decided to get up and go to the bar to ask if it was table service or not, got told again “yes it is I will be with you to take your drinks”. The waitress took our drinks order and food order as we obviously had long enough to think about it. Took about another 20 minutes for our drinks to be given (only ordered two cokes) we sat and waited… and waited oh and waited even longer! About an hour went by I went up and asked how long the wait would be on our food, the lovely lad I spoke checked the table on the system to see but it didn’t say so he went and checked in the kitchen, he came back out and said about 10 minutes. Ooo yes I thought FOOD! I’m starving! Had to get another drink obviously as been sat there a while so I treated myself to a martini and my partner had a pint By the time these drinks came I looked at my partner and realised the car needed to be moved as we thought two hours would be plenty time to park up but obviously not! We did debate on leaving but by this point we thought we may aswell stay as it shouldn’t be much longer now and quite frankly just wanted to eat! 10 minutes turned into another 30 minutes!!!!! Oh the hanger kicked in! I must admit it wasn’t overly busy. The food EVENTUALLY came out the kitchen and was okay. But all the manager could do was take off our drinks!!! Absolutely ridiculous!! Just to be dumped in the corner and obviously forgotten about. Not on at all, and not happy about it!! Okay rant over.

Good service from sami great food and music

Good service from Sam. Really good food.

We had a lovely meal and great service by Bea this evening. Lovely to see a young girl willing to work and giving a service with a smile😁

Emilia was amazing and delivered excellent service to me and my friends, Bertie did a fabulous job with all our drinks. Chefs kiss, thank you very much 🤌 and Sami.. u was there u did good.. haha *cough cough*

We had Emilia and Bertie they were amazing the drinks were so good and Emilia was extremely friendly and great with one of my friends allergies. Sami was there but didn’t interact with us. All in all lovely experiences would come back again 🩷🩷

I had Emilia and Bertie serving me today they were both loving served amazing drinks and treated us well 🩷!!! Sami was there.

Whole venue looked busy yet Emilia gave us the best service, made sure we had drinks at all times, and made sure our food arrived as fast as it possibly could, would return

Lovely good, our server Emilia was very attentive.

Emilia was so good especially on a busy Saturday night, made sure our drinks were constantly topped up

Always fantastic food and service! Food is always spot on, quick and well priced! Jake was super helpful and even recommended a few events we could try that Eat The Bird attend. My son eating the extreme tenders always throws everyone at Taunton and Exeter. We happily travel 40minutes each time as we know the food and service is always worth it!

Food is always 10/10 and consistent. Service is exceptional thanks to Amelia and George. Atmosphere is great! Nice and relaxed with good music, also family friendly.

Certainly! Here’s a glowing 5-star review: I had an absolutely fantastic dining experience at Eat the bird! From the moment we walked in, the warm atmosphere and the mouthwatering aroma of perfectly seasoned chicken made us feel right at home. The service was impeccable, thanks to Emilia, Caed, and Gordon, who went above and beyond to ensure our evening was perfect. Emilia was incredibly attentive and had an infectious smile that made us feel welcome. Caed was knowledgeable about the menu and gave excellent recommendations—we ended up trying the chef’s special, and it was divine! Gordon brought such a fun energy to the table, making sure everything was cooked to perfection and checking in on us at just the right times. Tilly is the kind of waitress who transforms a simple dining experience into something truly special. Her warm and welcoming demeanor instantly puts guests at ease, and her attention to detail ensures every need is met without even having to ask. Tilly has an impressive knowledge of the menu and offers thoughtful recommendations tailored to each guest’s preferences. She moves with grace and efficiency, always managing to be present without being intrusive. Whether it’s remembering a returning customer’s favorite dish or adding a personal touch with her friendly conversation, Tilly’s exceptional service leaves a lasting impression. Dining in her section feels like being treated to a meal by an old friend. The chicken was juicy, flavorful, and cooked to perfection, with sides that complemented the meal beautifully. The portions were generous, and everything tasted fresh and homemade. If you’re looking for incredible food paired with outstanding service, this is the place to go. Thank you, Emilia, Tilly ,Caed, and Gordon, for making our night so memorable. We’ll definitely be back!

Caed, Emilia, and Gordon provided the most incredible service I’ve ever experienced! This trio is unmatched in their professionalism, attention to detail, and ability to make every moment special. Caed and Emilia ensured everything ran smoothly, with their friendly and attentive approach making the experience stress-free and enjoyable. Meanwhile, Gordon’s drink expertise was out of this world—every sip was a masterpiece! Together, they created a seamless and memorable experience that exceeded all expectations. And Tilly was there.

Great staff, great food, great portions

Lovely place to eat, service was great and good was amazing! Sally and Caed were amazing.

served by caed, really lovely server food was so nice and the wait was not too long

Great food, great service from Emilia 🙂

First time here and it was so good, the food was amazing, Sally, Caed and Emilia were so lovely and helpful.

Top tier service from Caed and Sally

Very good experience, offering recommendations/ dips and have free dips for us to try, burgers really good ! Loaded fries were perfect. Staff friendly. Recommend

Great experience as always. Thank you Caed and Sally

Great food, great service, great vibe! If you haven't been yet you're missing out!

Food was great and the staff were very friendly and helpful, especially Caed, Jake and Sammi

Amazing host "card, Sammi, Jake in Taunton store

Great food and excellent table service from friendly waiter.

Caed did an amazing job serving us, never been served by someone with such aura - handsome as well, sammi and sally did a fantastic job also 100/10

Went with my brother for a meal and had a great time. Caed, Sammi and Sally were amazing, great vibes. Caed was pretty cool and in on the laughs, was a fun time all around. 5 stars across the board, will be back soon! 🙌🏻

Props to Gordon, he was right about how spicy the xtreme

Great service from Cade, let us know about all the out of stock foods & accommodated us accordingly ✨

Been a few times now and would like to leave a review. Very polite staff, Food cooked to a great standard, quick and tasty nothing major to complain about.. What you want from a good burger joint. Great way to start an evening or end a trip on. The atmosphere in the venue is very spacious and the lighting was nice. The only main issue if any, is outside although lovely again, when it gets to a point of the day, it can make the place look closed or at worse shut down. Some lighting could help a lot outside. Other than that we are very happy and would easily go back again

Gordon was the man! Amazing service alsways checked up on us!

Caedmon and Gordon were super friendly and offered great service making us all feel satisfied 🤩, food was fantastic as always.

Emilia was amazing! Great server and has good humour!

Would definitely recommend!! I got the chicktator burger and it was really delicious. Kai was our server and he was really polite and attentive :)

Amazing, Kai was great and had an amazing beanie 😂 great food too!

First time visiting after rave reviews from friends. The burger I had was amazing but the ‘OG tenders’ were disappointing. My friends all ordered the ‘Garlic Parm Tenders’ and these were much better! Some of the menu is pretty hit or miss but I would still implore people to visit. The staff were absolutely fantastic, the playlist was fitting and the atmosphere was super relaxed. I enjoyed the whole experience and would visit again.

Cead was an amazing server on our first visit. Will absolutely be back soon! Food was out of this world!

Went to eat the bird in taunton for my birthday meal with my husband and the service by caed was amazing, very friendly and was generally a nice man explained everything that wasn’t on menu due to being closed for Christmas stock was low.

I looked into Gordon's eyes. and bang true love. At first we couldn't get a table. But my man managed to find us a place to eat. Gordon is love, Gordon is life.

Gordan changed my life truly greatful.

Gordon was worried he couldn't find a table for us. Gordon managed to find a table for us. Gordon was great. Gordon.

We had a lovely time out, with Gordon as our waiter who was brilliant - incredibly friendly and was checking up often to make sure we were pleased. Great atmosphere!

Nice meal out to start the weekend with our waitor Gordon being exceptionally friendly. Credits to Gordon and the team.

caed was a wicked waiter best service i’ve had

Caed was such a lovely server and brilliant with the orders and looking after our table .

Great food and amazing service from Caed, couldn’t have made the visit any better!

Visited here last night for a Christmas staff event. Service was awful. We're not offered specials menus. Took 35 mins to take our order then an hour for our food in a quiet restaurant. Then cold from the fridge chicken wings served. Not enough cutlery and nobody came to ask if we wanted more drinks or check if everything was ok. We're sat for a further hour waiting for dishes to be cleared and have pudding. Nobody came! When going to the till to pay as apparently it was easier than at the table?! I gave our review so that no one would have to experience this again. Hackling from the kitchen was loud and rudeness towards us, so so cross wanted to go back in. With that amount of staff and people in the restaurant, I feel people in house need to be saved to a high standard before deliveries are dealt with, this was definitely not the case! We were cold as sat in a very drafty area but as nobody came to check on us we were unable to log this with anyone. Overall gutted, as I recommended this to our group but we won't be returning!

Lovely atmosphere, quick service and amazing food!

Kai at Eat the bird turned and boring Tuesday birthday, into a happy, tasty celebration. He listened to our woes and turned our frowns -upside down. Thank you Kai!! Try the pickle backs!!!

We came to Eat The Bird (Taunton) for dinner, and to be honest had a rubbish experience. We’ve been a few times before, and often there is a lot of us, and the food / service has been good. Unfortunately, 50mins + after ordering, the 2 of us still had not had our order, and although it was around 7pm, the restaurant was not too busy to justify that kind of wait. We didn’t complain, but the waitress did come over and apologise and offer us a complimentary drink which we thought was nice of her. The food still did not come for a good while after this, so we wonder whether it got forgotten about? And I feel like the waitresses should have communicated better, because at one point my partner and I genuinely contemplated leaving it seemed to be so long. Despite this, we were actually quite patient, and we both said hopefully when the food comes out it’ll be worth it. It was not. The chips were hot which were nice, both our chicken burgers were cold, I also ordered extra cheese on mine, however it was clearly not added - which was really annoying because we waited so much longer than necessary, alongside the fact other customers before us seemed to be getting their food. Anyway, the waitress told me she put it though the till, no doubt she did - but I’m confident it was not added to the burger, and then had to show her the inside, as I couldn’t be bothered to debate over this? However, she did agree it did not look like extra cheese was added, so she took it off the bill too. After a long day, then a long wait on food which was to be honest, was not to the standards we expected after visiting so many times before, we felt really frustrated with how much we paid for this meal (please see picture). I don’t think we will be coming back, it’s quite a journey for us anyway as we live 40 mins away, so it was really disappointing to have this experience. Only positive from this was the waitress who mainly served us, she was pleasant and understanding, and we did explain we never usually complain, so for us to speak up and say how bad our experience was should say a lot. Again really frustrated with the price of this meal as it was just such a letdown. If you’re hungry I don’t recommend going here

Delicious food!! Amazing service from Emilia ☺️

Fantastic food as always and great service by Emilia!

The food is amazing, the Beefy Boy burger is just my ultimate favourite and that's why I keep coming back to it. The venue is large and the views outside a great. Excellent atmosphere and the staff were really friendly. This won't be my last visit!

The staff did well to deal with us as a large party. Food was delicious even for us vegetarian

Amazing food, really friendly staff. We weren't sure what buffalo sauce tasted like and our server (i think she had red hair, i didnt get her name) glady fetched us some to try.

Massive group of us-19 tonight, for a family bday gathering and could not fault them in any way-food came out all together and was all hot and delicious-our server was fab too. Have been on the same date for a few years now and they never fail to impress us all :-)

Used to be great, but our last experience was an absolute parody of a terrible restaurant. We ordered for delivery. An hour and a half after we placed the order, we start wondering what's going on and try to phone the restaurant multiple times. No answer. No call back. Two hours after the order was placed, we get a text from the driver saying he's arrived... but somewhere else. After getting dressed to meet him in this location away from our house, we finally sit down to eat. The food is stone cold and dried to the point that it's unpalatable. Literally unpalatable - as in too dry to even chew properly. I'd initially assumed that the reason it was late was because there was a delay in the kitchen. I didn't for a moment think that any restaurant would prepare a meal upon receiving an order and then let it sit around on a counter for two hours before sending a driver out to deliver it. That's absolutely disgusting and unacceptable. I don't know why they think they can get away with something like this as if it's a perfectly normal way of running a business that sells food. The cherry on top is that they never answered the phone when we wanted to ask about how this happened, so they can hear it all through this review instead. UPDATE: Regarding the response from Gordon below, I appreciate the assurances that everything that went wrong was actually the fault of the third party takeaway service and that none of this would have happened if we'd ordered directly through the restaurant's website. There's just one tiny problem. We DID order directly through the restaurant's website. :^)

Always great service, friendly staff decent atmosphere. The food is consistently awesome!! The beer is nice too!

Delicious food. The chicktator was especially tasty!

I recently gave this establishment a 3* review....the taste was great but I didn't think it was good value for money due to only finding 3 cubes of chicken....I had the chicken Louisiana... However.. I have since had the same and it was perfect...really was what I had come to expect from Eat The Bird Taunton.... But I left it too late to leave a positive review on Deliveroo....also I received an email from them wanting to correct this....which I thought was lovely but not necessary as the the dud order was a one off. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

My first time and definitely not my last!

I am sick and tired of giving this restaurant the benefit of the doubt. Two years ago, I loved this place. This has gone downhill so quickly and the food as of this evening was awful. Focus back on producing good, quality food. I would recommend somewhere else

Really good service on a friday lunchtime when it was fairly quiet. Good vegan options. My only criticism would be that the vegan chickless-tator burger was really wet from so much mayo and juices from the kimchi. The burger bun got really soaked and fell apart. Tasted great though!!

Eat the bird has always delivered and this time was no different, the staff were extremely helpful with anything that me and my partner needed and the food was stellar.

Food worth making a very long trip for and a fantastic vibe to the place. I will take any excuse to stop here as I cross the country. I would give the service six stars if I could.

Every time I come here the staff are friendly and very helpful, the food is always delicious and the staff make sure they get you all you need and more, quickly and efficiently.

Great place for Chicken Burgers. I love a Proper Filth!

Great food as always - Wings Wednesday is a real treat and great value 😀😀

waiter was incredible, didnt get his name unfortunately but incredible customer service. Thank you for the birthday shot!

Absolutely brilliant, can't complain (frickles are a amazing 😋😋)

Great staff, great food, lovely spacious tables wold definitely recommend ❤️

Food was really good but waited for 45mins for food

Not gonna lie, Best burgers and wings I ever had!

The Doble dip would be my death row meal.

Eat the Bird came highly recommended by our friends and we’re definitely coming back! Service was warm and friendly, and the food was top notch! We were made to feel really welcome by Emilia and Bertie’s drink recommendations were spot on! Thanks guys for a lovely meal!

Loved the food really nice, cost me £21 for burger, fries and a pint. Little bit expensive but would go again and would recommend

Kai, top server in the Taunton branch foods always lovely and a wonderful atmosphere

We were served by Kai, who's service was exceptional. He made the experience a great one, and the food was matched. Will be returning!

A quick and tasty lunch. 2 tenders chips, a sauce and a soft drink. I could bathe in the buffalo sauce. Yummy!

Nice fried chicken sandwiches and side dishes. The food is well cooked and tasty and the portions are decent. Good value for money.

Food was excellent tasted very fresh.Service from kai was excellent he was very enthusiastic and caterd to our request with no complaint.

Service and food were great. Kai was our server. We had the jalapeño specials and they were amazing

Kai was great, give that man a pay rise, super friendly and accommodating. No ask was too big. Best food in Taunton. 110% recommend.

Incredible food, so filling, money well spent Lovely waiter Kai very enthusiastic made the experience very enjoyable!

Delicious food, great vibe, but what really stood out on our visit today was our server, Kai. Friendliest service we have received in a long time. Thank you so much!

Wow you won't even answer the phone ....my order was supposed to be with me in 30 mins 2.5hrs later it turns up cold no way of cancelling the order you ripping off gits not happy at all ..you used to be very good now your awfully terrible £42wasted 😕 😞edit I got refunded but this should never have happened

Greta food as always! Kai was a great server, super friendly! Highly recommend⭐️

Lovely attentive staff, quick service and good quality food

Great food and service and friendly George

Jake was super helpful. Good food,banging playlist.

Emilia is amazing!! Looked after us so well

Very friendly service from Pippa

great environment served by gordan food was amazing

Delicious food served very quickly. We had a happy relaxed evening and Tilly was a lovely waiter. She took good care of us.

We had a great meal for my girlfriend’s birthday. She’s gluten free and the staff were very accommodating to us. Tilly was our server and a bloke behind the bar was nice too. Will definitely be back

Amazing fried chicken. Super crispy burger and the fried pickles were a really positive suprise. Big shout out to Sami and Gordon who looked after us, although all the staff were great. Recommend!

Sam was our server, everyone was amazing! The guy who brought out food out (didn’t get his name) was hilarious! Cocktails are some of the best in a restaurant in town