Beaumont's of Ashbourne — Restaurant in Derbyshire Dales

We did not know if we should laugh or cry after visiting yesterday,I will try and explain! Our visit was on Saturday afternoon and there we not a lot of customers. There were however a lot of staff who somehow manged to look busy without achieving a lot. It took ages for us to be asked if we were ready to order. When we ask about a couple of the items on the staff member replied, "I don't know anything about them". We took a chance and ordered the Derbyshire oatcake and a slice of cake with two teas. Cue another long wait before the next quirky surprise. The oatcake arrived from the kitchen without any cutlery before the cake and teas arrived. When we asked for some cutlery were we told it would come with the tea and cake. Cue another long wait, oatcake getting cold, we asked the staff when they would arrive, I will see what I can do was the response before walking off to have a chat with another staff member. Meanwhile, table of ladies next to us had the same strange cutlery experience and asked one of the staff for some serviettes. The staff member returned with one, when the ladies asked for some more, "We have run out".

In summary, splendidly shambolic, with average food, and a unique service style. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never has so little been achieved by so many. Hilarious 24 hours later but...

Appalling. I can't see how the place has 4.4 on here 😳 we hadn't tried this place before I took the Mrs and daughter for breakfast this morning. We had a full monty breakfast which came with budget everything. Sausages that tasted as if they had been frozen for approximately 3 years. I would have to give some sort of award for the tiniest most tasteless hash brown I've ever eaten. Positives bacon was okay, beans I would imagine this how much a ration is in a UK prison. We then had a cheese and tomato panini that was under-toasted. We then paid for a child's meal for my daughter 4.95 for a jam sandwich. This was equally as bad the presentation of everything was terrible. Coffee was okay and juice fine. When I arrived at the till and paid the bill of over 30 pounds, I couldn't help but feel I'd just consumed 50pences worth of ingredients from Aldi and been charged a massive mark up. The images on previous reviews look nothing like how the food looks now. Wait staff were helpful, shame the kitchen let them down....

We went to have a nice meal on our Anniversary, just to do something different. We read the menu displayed outside and we thought we could have an English breakfast as we were on time for it. I have requested not to have the baked beans with it and perhaps instead one more slice of bacon? The restaurant wasn’t busy when we arrive at 12.20 and it was a Wednesday. Despite that, it took 50 minutes for our food to arrive. On the plate no mushrooms as they should have been served, no extra bacon at all. We ordered a pot of tea with our meal and on the table there was just 1 sachet ( 1 tablet) of sweetener and no white sugar. I went to ask for more sweetener and some white sugar and I’ve been given 2 sachets of sweetener and 2 of sugar for a teapot for two people! Not one member of staff asking us if everything was ok and if we needed anything. Overpriced for the food we’ve eaten which was nothing special but just ordinary. I am definitely not going back and I will for sure stick to the usual art...