DO NOT GO HERE! We were foolish enough to give this dump a second chance... shame on us. Even for Brit (sh*t) service, this place truly needs a customer-service overhaul and is barely safe to eat in.. Dirty tables, stained menus, inattentive staff.. (imagine if they worked for tips! LOL)!
So to expand upon tonight's experience... We were promptly greeted, in the host's defense, and shown to our choice of a dirty/sticky booth and given stained menus with bits of previous patrons' food stuck to them - just like the booth's table. So, we asked if someone could please wash our table and and ordered drinks (ohh. it was approx 1600 - not busy; they had 4 or 5 wait staff on hand and maybe 5 tables to serve...). After I asked the waitress to follow up for the second time, then asked the "manager", (used the toilet, went outside for a smoke, waited again, blah, blah, blah. waited more still...(still no drink service 30min later)) we were still waiting for someone to clean the disgusting table and maybe bring a drink for my wife and me..., maybe menus that weren't diseased . It wasn't a difficult order... a Pepsi and a pint of San Miguel. Still, no menus that weren't diseased nor service. The place really is a joke.
We realize that Royston isn't exactly a metropolis and is a cheap place for London-commuters to find refuge, but "The Jolly Postie" is a dive with a photogenic facade. DO NOT attempt to dine here unless you're prepared for terrible service, disgusting hygiene, and the readiness to walkout - as we did. I feel like we should have charged them for wasting our time. Will be reporting this place to the food-safety gov't folks (or whatever the Brits call it)...
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