It's been a while since our last visit to The Star Inn and we were very disappointed. Previously the meals have been very good but things seemed to have gone down hill. We should have realised that it wasn't going to be a good evening when we asked for a table for two and we were waved in the direction of a dark cold corner. There was a fire alight down one end of the room but the end we were directed to was very cold and although the fire place had clearly been used for some reason a fire had not been lit on this Saturday evening. There were also three men sat at the bar who seemed to think the rest of the pub would like to hear their mobile phone conversation as they had the phone on loud speaker.
We had to wait a long time for the food to come, one of as ordered chicken with brie and bacon which was very nice. The second meal was chicken, leek and mushroom pie with hand cut chips. The pie was sadly lacking in chicken with only about 3 or 4 pieces in the entire pie. The chips were awful. They were grossly overcooked on the outside, very greasy and not at all crispy. We sent them back and asked for some more. The second batch were almost as bad, they were not cooked on the inside and were still greasy with no crispness, suggesting either the oil was not hot enough or needed changing. We also had to ask for a spoon to serve the vegetables, serving peas with a fork takes forever!
We won't be returning to the Star Inn again until we hear some good reports about it