Mother's day treat turned into 2 hours of poor food & service. Not recommended at all.
Arrived at for 5pm booking, served at 7:30pm.
When finally served, the food was below average at best & one of the dishes was inedible as all the vegetables were burnt & an aubergine accompaniment was tasteless watery slush. The Caesar salad main was bland, poorly prepared, had oily fried bread croutons & was a minuscule portion...particularly for c. £17 set menu price.
We therefore complained. They blamed the delay on the fact they had one other large booking (about 15 people) plus our 5. But if they had been happy to take the bookings you would expect them to plan for set numbers. They blamed the inedible dish (a roast) on the fact that they had a "new chef today who was not used to the ovens". So aside from having their new chef's first day on one of the busiest days of the year, they wern't that familiar with the ovens. Advice alert to management....phone the parties in advance to explain this to allow an informed decision as to whether they wanted to continue with their bookings.
I note others have had spookily similar experiences recently. Aside from the food I'd characterise this place as a tatty drinkers pub. So if that's what you want, then fine, but for food the message is avoid... read more
