No Photos of this pub as the site won't allow you to copy or save....it tells me if I want a copy I have to come to the pub and buy a round first....well after last nights bill of £112 you'd have thought they have had enough out of me!!!!
I will never go to this place again, the food was atrocious and the service was amateurish to say the least! We were greeted pleasantly enough and the super efficient waitress took our drinks order, not sure if it was her first night, but it was defiantly her first job, over zealous but at first I liked the fact that she was trying to doing her job well. You don’t always get that with young waiting staff these days! But soon the clippy cloppy noise from her shoes was so annoying it interfered with our conversation…she stomped everywhere and created an air of efficiency that we never actually got to witness. She slopped my goo…oh sorry, my beef stroganoff in front of me with such speed that the ‘sauce’ slid off my plate narrowly missing my cream trousers…”oh did I get you” was her comment!!!!!!
We were showed to our table and the restaurant is a pleasant area with wooden floors, heavy wooden furniture and lots of space. A past visit by our eldest daughter assured us that it was a great place to eat. I don’t know what happened this time!
Starters
Cajun potato skins – A huge portion was served at a previous visit so 3 portions ordered between 4 this time and there was more dips than chips! Very disapointing, at £4.95 it poor value for money
Garlic Mushrooms tossed in a garlic & basil cream sauce – Barely 4 mushrooms with way too much sauce that hadn’t see a leaf of basil or piece of garlic to my knowledge, the cream sauce had a sicky vinegary taste which we put down to too much lemon juice. I would be ashamed to call myself a chef and serve this. The salad garnish was pitiful.
Main course
The menu said "Strips of prime fillet steak in a red wine and mushroom sauce £12.95". What turned up was a plate overfilled to spilling point with a watery brown ‘sauce’ that tasted like it came from a packet with a powdery texture and was way too salty and had a little too much lemon juice added to it…the mushrooms were there this time and too be fair the strips of prime fillet steak were tender and plentiful….but I couldn’t get past the horrible sauce, the bad presentation and the starchy rice with way too much bite to it. I opted to eat the cauliflower in the vegetable bowl instead, it was swimming in water (how difficult is it to drain the veg properly???) That tasted ok, as did the carrot batons and the frozen peas! My plate was a battle ground of goo! OH’s was pleasantly presented which led him into a false sense of security. But he was hungry and struggled though it, I decided I’d rather wait and eat at home.
The kids had gammon and when I tasted it I understood why they had asked for second drinks during their meal. It was unbelievably salty too. Cheap meat?
The lamb steak – the only decent meal on the table, it was served with a redcurrant sauce which was sweet and went well with the meat. She had a few problems cutting it but the meat was nicely cooked and slightly pink…just how she likes it. She had to ask for a steak knife and as one waitress shouted over to the other “Have we got any of those steak knives” we had to laugh…professional they were not! The chips tasted like those reconstituted frozen ones but hey the kids liked them!
“Would you like to see the dessert menu?” We did, but after reading the extensive menu, we had lost our appetite. The sticky toffee pudding may have been as bad as the beef stroganoff…we’ll never know, we asked for the bill only to be brought the wrong one…table 12’s was half the total of ours, we should have paid theirs instead!
The manager knocked one of the stroganoffs off the bill but that doesn’t make it right, it spoilt our evening, in this case a birthday celebration. Would the chef or staff eat this meal and think it was excellent / good / /make them want to come back? I don’t think so….so why do they serve it to their paying guests. I feel totally ripped off and will make a point of mentioning it to my family and friends…oh and all my loyal readers.
We were showed to our table and the restaurant is a pleasant area with wooden floors, heavy wooden furniture and lots of space. A past visit by our eldest daughter assured us that it was a great place to eat. I don’t know what happened this time!
Starters
Cajun potato skins – A huge portion was served at a previous visit so 3 portions ordered between 4 this time and there was more dips than chips! Very disapointing, at £4.95 it poor value for money
Garlic Mushrooms tossed in a garlic & basil cream sauce – Barely 4 mushrooms with way too much sauce that hadn’t see a leaf of basil or piece of garlic to my knowledge, the cream sauce had a sicky vinegary taste which we put down to too much lemon juice. I would be ashamed to call myself a chef and serve this. The salad garnish was pitiful.
Main course
The menu said "Strips of prime fillet steak in a red wine and mushroom sauce £12.95". What turned up was a plate overfilled to spilling point with a watery brown ‘sauce’ that tasted like it came from a packet with a powdery texture and was way too salty and had a little too much lemon juice added to it…the mushrooms were there this time and too be fair the strips of prime fillet steak were tender and plentiful….but I couldn’t get past the horrible sauce, the bad presentation and the starchy rice with way too much bite to it. I opted to eat the cauliflower in the vegetable bowl instead, it was swimming in water (how difficult is it to drain the veg properly???) That tasted ok, as did the carrot batons and the frozen peas! My plate was a battle ground of goo! OH’s was pleasantly presented which led him into a false sense of security. But he was hungry and struggled though it, I decided I’d rather wait and eat at home.
The kids had gammon and when I tasted it I understood why they had asked for second drinks during their meal. It was unbelievably salty too. Cheap meat?
The lamb steak – the only decent meal on the table, it was served with a redcurrant sauce which was sweet and went well with the meat. She had a few problems cutting it but the meat was nicely cooked and slightly pink…just how she likes it. She had to ask for a steak knife and as one waitress shouted over to the other “Have we got any of those steak knives” we had to laugh…professional they were not! The chips tasted like those reconstituted frozen ones but hey the kids liked them!
“Would you like to see the dessert menu?” We did, but after reading the extensive menu, we had lost our appetite. The sticky toffee pudding may have been as bad as the beef stroganoff…we’ll never know, we asked for the bill only to be brought the wrong one…table 12’s was half the total of ours, we should have paid theirs instead!
The manager knocked one of the stroganoffs off the bill but that doesn’t make it right, it spoilt our evening, in this case a birthday celebration. Would the chef or staff eat this meal and think it was excellent / good / /make them want to come back? I don’t think so….so why do they serve it to their paying guests. I feel totally ripped off and will make a point of mentioning it to my family and friends…oh and all my loyal readers.
Sadly, mine didn't look like these!
