Sliptrickle4 (01.11.2017 23:12)
Great pub for wings and beer. Great friendly environment and great staff! Little small inside but patio is beauty
XIV V (24.10.2017 23:49)
Good and bad.
The food and beer selection is good, with great TVs and a nice patio (with TVs on patio). Prices are great. Great wings. Often has game audio for sports which is rare these days. In terms of watching a game, it's far better in terms of set up than most other options. Nice typical pub atmosphere.
Bad is the service. Friendly but unreliable and inconsistent. Often takes 10-20 minutes to be acknowledged or even give a drink order, even when the place is half full and not understaffed. Most recent visit, showed up around 6 with place half full and many uncleared tables, took 10 minutes to be acknowledged and 20 minutes to get a drink. Food was slow to arrive and incorrect. This is typical for most visits.
A lot of apparent regular customers also seem to distract servers often, who are too polite to turn away. Frustrating when a server has your drinks/food in hand 10 ft away but is stopped by two people who want to catch up for 5 minutes.
Overall this is a place that could or should be great, but seems poorly managed with respect to efficient, quality service.
UPDATE Sept 2017: The menu or chef has changed again (not sure which), but the burgers now seem to be frozen, or at least now taste like they're frozen. They're much thinner, with odd flavour. The fish & chips have also continue to go down hill (each time the menu is revised, the fish & chips seem to take a step down).
On the plus side, the server for this visit was much better than average, and one of the better we'd had there.
The Ivy has a great pub atmosphere, nice patio and location, and a decent selection of beers for a place this size, and is probably still fine for a pint if you're not in a rush, but now that the food has fallen with the history of sporadic and often poor service, it's a gamble as to what you might get.
Brian Smith (29.08.2017 19:41)
We sat on the patio. It's a nice patio. I ordered dry Cajun wings. The wings were way too over seasoned to the point where you could scrape off large amounts with your finger. Over seasoning can kill wings. Fries were good. I expected a better beer selection though.
David Wiseman (22.08.2017 23:03)
Being new to Milton I visited Ivy Arms at the recommendation of a local nearby business owner. It was 3:00 on a Sunday and I wanted to sit on the patio. I waited at the top stair leading to the patio to get a seat. The server walked right past me so I had to get her attention rather than my being properly greeted. Rather than occupying an entire table on my own I opted to sit at the rail along the front facing the street. I was the only person sitting at the rail so I stuck out like a sore thumb. And then I waited ... The same server walked behind me several times to other tables not once acknowledging me. After 15 minutes of being ignored I left. I won't return.
Courtney Gardner (30.07.2017 02:39)
We went tonight to Ivy Arm. It's a Saturday night so we took our friends here as we heard good reviews. The services was extremely slow we didn't get our meals for at least an hour. There were about 2 other tables inside and 4 tables full outside. So I'm not sure what the slowness was about.
I received my meal 5 minutes after everyone else at our table. The couple beside us received their meal before my meal and we arrived before them.
Quite disappointed with them. The only great part was they serve great beer.
