Due to reply,REVISED, I did not insult you, once you do you loose point and case. For pub grub it was dear, on fact £82 expensive. on entry the smell of fish was quite off putting but hoped it disappeared, it didn't, but did get less...On commenting to the nice polite bar man, " bloody he'll, its dear," in a joking, humour toned voice,"fine dining isn't cheap", I replied, "we'll see soon, I suppose", and we sat down in a dining area, not the snack area, as directed. In the pub was 1 lady in the snack area and think apart from us two, it was empty. Nice, decor, pleasant atmosphere, apart from the strong fishy odour, ok its an eatery so sort of forgave the odour... We took the drinks sat down to wood tables, with cutlery on laid napkins, NOT THE FINE DINING, the barman promised, bare wood pub tables, and paper napkins!!! not the finest dining I was sort of promised. For me fine dining is a cloth covered table, matching chairs and real laundered cloth napkins at least!!!.
We studied the menu intently whilst taking in the fish odour, sipping our drinks and gasping at the prices, but for us if its good it might be worth it, as we were looking for a venue for an occassion in the next few weeks... "sod the expense, let's see what it's like," and we ordered from the , 'dining menu'. I love scallops, so the scallop starter dish was £12, so I I quired, " how many scallops do I get as it stated,"scallop with artichoke puree".. singular, not plural.. the barman, replied, " you get x3", great ill order that... and and gammon steak as a main, my partner ordered, a mushroom garlic something, basically it was like a mushroom pie, and she ordered a steak pie and new potatoes, at that point her starter was worded as if basically garlic mushrooms in sone sort of presentation we had not heatd of so looked forward to seeing what it was, like I said it arrived, basically a mushroom pie, but very nice presented well and she enjoyed it.. But, but we had to wait quite a long time to say one other person in eating, but we took that in our stride.... the starters arrived some 30 mins later and her mushroom "pie" looked well and quite the dish to be honest, I was a tad envy,. Well now I turn to my starter, looked impressive on a white long narrow plate, with x3 scallops and wild flowers as garnish and a "smear" of I believe artichoke puree, well... Well I was a little lost for words for £12 and a smear of artichoke puree the x3 scallops were no bigger than a 10p piece with 3 in total the taste wasnice granted a tiny bit chewy but acceptable to me but for £12 it was a total let down in terms if value for money..I bit my lip, said nothing and ate all the contents of the fish, didn't take long mind! my partners mushroom pie was also enjoyed both I taste, and value for money at think £7..We ate the starters and discussed them both, we both agreed hers was very nice, tasty and ok for the value, however, my partner normally remains tight lipped, but she was surprised as to the lack of content on my plate, we chuckled and the barman,waiter came over and asked if all was OK? yes I replied,ordered more drinks one soft, one larger shandy!! and he asked how was the fine fining experience going?, "I replied," let's see all the food, we have ordered and reserve the opinion..." .More serious time went by and the mains arrived, my partners steak pie looked nice and filles the plate think it was, £12,mine arrived and the gammon looked, nice, thick and sadly lost on the plate a basket of fries arrived,and I ordered extra onion rings... for £17 that gammon looked a sad morsel on the plate, a bit of side dressing, fries in a basket, onion rings separated in another dish, very heavily cooked dark brown and super crispy, sone would call them," cremated" but .. again let's eat.. both meals were ok, nothing to write home about, my partner left a bit, even after I tucked in, but mine was just, OK. overcooked fried egg, a few peas and reasonably tasty but again for the price, sorry just not worth £17.. and as for fine dining, Not really, and by a...
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