So we turned up here on our first ever visit, and sat outside in 12c cool damp, as inside dining isn't due to recommence in this statelet until 24 May 2021.
The place was certainly popular with a heck of a lot of cheerful young folk enjoying open air beer, freedom and craic.
We got seated at a new looking bench and got a limited pub grub menu with the likes of chicken wings and prawns pil pil for starters and chicken goujons (don't recall price) overpriced chicken/beef burgers (£16) and fish and chips (£12) as mains. So the food offerings were mostly deep-fried convenience food for the cook.
We got cappuccinos (£2.5) and while they were good they went cold too quickly. Had the cups been warmed first with hot water for a minute; it would have made a noticeable beneficial difference.
The service was friendly but unusually payment was required on ordering.
There was nothing special or gourmet about the food but the prices were high enough to expect it.
We opted for a chicken burger and a fish and chips. We said no cheese with the chicken burger but it still came with cheese. We usually leave cheese out as it tends to be cheap, oily and poor tasting unnecessary fat.
At £16 the chicken burger (served with a few chunky chips and red cabbage) was well overpriced - certainly £4 over the odds - if it had been served with home-made coleslaw, and home made mayo on the side or a home-made sriracha sauce it might justify this stonking price.
The battered fish was cod. The batter was ok - it could have been better seasoned and should have been made thinner (as it's a pub it could have been easily made from beer, which would have been much better) and while the portion was generous (4 pieces) the fish was far too bloody thin for a restaurant meal, restaurants like this should be able to command good thick cod from suppliers, even good chippies can knock this meal out with similar portions with much thicker fish for two thirds the price.
We apparently can't now sell our world class, fresh, wet fish to Europe, as we've departed Europe and the useless government just recently failed to strike a fishing deal with Norway, so we should be tripping over ourselves with the very best quality cold water white fish that we can't get rid of and at rock bottom prices.
So it's a good two star/borderline 3 star. There's nothing to take me back here for a second visit but I do recommend that the cook here goes for lunch to Sinton's Scarva. read more