Guest User
May 31, 2024
We ate in the restaurant to celebrate our son's birthday with his grandparents. We arrived, ordered drinks and had a look through the menu while we waited for the drinks. The menu is VERY bland with limited choice. If meat / fish / veggie alternative and two veg isn't your thing, this isn't the restaurant for you. Most dishes are priced around £20, my son and I had fillet steaks at £30 each. When the drinks arrived, we ordered our food - main courses only, no starters - and some bread and olives to pick at while we waited. The first time the waiter asked if we were done with the bread and olives, we said no and thought little of it. The second time, I thought "what a weird question". The third time, when we said no and he said "Oh, OK, I'll tell the chef you're ready for the mains" I realised he was treating bread and olives as a starter and was holding our mains until we'd "finished". By the time our main courses arrived, we'd been at the restaurant for an hour and fifteen minutes and were all hungry and annoyed. The food - 2 fillet steaks, 2 trout and 1 fish & chips - was mediocre. The fillet steaks were tiny - round and approx. 7cm diameter - and despite being ordered medium rare, were served medium to well done. The chips were basically 7 lumps of roast potato. I expect steak to come with pommes frites. I recommend you avoid this restaurant. The Sir John Barleycorn is 5 minutes away and is a much better restaurant in every respect.