We have visited The Manor many times before and I do find it very frustrating. On some visits the food has been excellent other as per this review absolutely awful!
This occasion was a Sunday lunch to tie in with a child's birthday.
We booked...via Opentable. When arriving at the restaurant we were the only customers which seemed at the time odd. We ordered the Sunday lunch menu, a mix of Beef, Roast Chicken and Belly Pork plus some starters.
Couldn't order any bread to go with the meal though as they had run out.. yes correct run out of bread!
The roast chicken and pork were supposed to come with stuffing, but they had run out of this too! Each was replaced with an extra Yorkshire pudding, they themselves however weren't brilliant. The port was very very fatty, I know this is how belly pork can be, but this was poor quality at best, for the price we anyone would expect better.
The veg was over cooked and it was explained the chef had just left the previous day and a replacement was on his way up from Devon , could have been Cornwall but either way he wasn't there yet, and it showed!!
I honestly feel if we had phoned directly to book, we would have been turned away, again maybe that's why we were the only party there as that wasn't an option when booked by Opentable.
Needles to say for the cost of the food (which isn't cheap eats territory in the slightest) and the fact some items weren't even available and the fact they still try and sneak in the service charge which to my mind is very underhanded this gets a poor review. I suspect that I'll not be missed but it's unlikely we will eat here again which is a shame as it's been great in the past and its very close to where we live.
If The Manor are listening at all then be the Pub you used to be when the beer was good and looked after and the Restaurant used to serve good food at a reasonable price for the quality.More