Went for Sunday lunch, we were told which table we had, we ordered drinks, went to the table. The place was empty even though the two ladies behind the bar stated how busy they had been, we arrived at 2pm…just one other table in &...finishing their dessert, I doubt they had anyone in their restaurant before us.
Sat for a while, no menu brought to us so I got up and got a menu from another empty table. Chose our meals, waited for an order to be taken…no one came, so ordered at the bar. At no point from arriving to choosing our meals were we told it was bar service. When I ordered the meals at the bar all orders were taken with no feedback from the staff that there were issues with the food or the meals we had ordered…great…looking forward to my Sunday lunch!
Food arrived, one ordered the three meat roast…it was lovely, second guest ordered the pork belly, but this was the same size of portion to the guest who ordered the three meat roast???? I ordered the roast gammon but it was a gammon steak that on a weeknight I’d normally have with a fried egg & chips, to me roast gammon is sliced off a gammon joint???
Once we got into the meal we asked the waitress where our cauliflower cheese was? She said they run out (was not told this when we ordered). Then we had to ask where our side of pigs in blankets were….10 mins later they arrived. Finally when we were half way through we realised we had no Yorkies……when, for the third time we asked where all the food was that we should have got on our plates was I was told they had been sooooooo busy they had run out of everything…..eventually a plate of Yorkies turned up….1 homemade and 2 Aunt Bessies….Really????? The homemade one was greasy, undercooked and cold.
Fortunately we are quite a good a bunch of friends that we just laughed our way through the lunch….until another table arrived for a birthday lunch. When they got their food they were presented with a lovely big bowl of cauliflower cheese! With the staff, loudly, telling them all that they had ‘loads’ of cauliflower cheese. In fact, numerous times! But still to our table….they had run out!
Only one of our table choose desert, when it arrived the waitress moved all of our dirty plates away to fit the dessert in….in normal restaurants the main course is cleared even before a pudding is ordered ! Our guest actually finished his dessert before any of the table was cleared.
We won’t be returning and can fully understand why, at 2pm the pub was empty. They had not been soooooo busy that they had run out of food, they are just poor and under prepared.More
