Crooked Barn — Restaurant in East Suffolk

Terrible experience, firstly asked if we want to keep our coats because it's so cold...' takes a while to heat up'. On receiving our meals things got worse, the vegetable fricassee, turned out to be boiled veg (the same used a the side for other dishes) with some black pasta and some white thin tasteless sauce (not the rich basil sauce on the menu listing). This bizarre dish came with raspberries and two salads, one either side of the plate?! Raspberries appeared on our salmon starter too?!... A serious mash up of odd items. When I enquired about the strange dish I was told 'well the menu's changing tomorrow'. Our puddings too were not as described, cream instead of ice-cream and no hit of lavender in the lavender fondant. A thoroughly...

Attended with a group of ladies from our local WI for afternoon tea. Venue very attractive but no atmosphere as only us there. 16 in our party but just 5 tiered stands with enough for 3 on each brought out. We found it difficult to explain to waitress that need another portion but she seemed to think we had plenty and probably some left over! She then brought us a further plate of sandwiches and another scone. The sandwich fillings were disappointing too, no choice and appeared to have the 4 cheapest fillings, I.e no beef or smoked salmon. No choice to have fruit teas just tea or coffee. Scones were dry and cake choices poor as well. Would not return for afternoon tea, probably poorest I...

Went for dinner and we were the only ones there so didn't do great for the atmosphere but the service was great. We did get the wrong tables food but this was soon realised and taken to the correct table, lucky as my wife was just about to cut in to her pork dish. I had the lamb and the portion was tiny, just 2 small strips of meat, it was very tasty but certainly wasn't a great size dinner. The pork portions were a lot better and I do wish I'd ordered this dish, but the duck we also ordered was very dry and the potatoes were hard. I feel for the prices they charge for their food the quality and portion should improve. We have been here many times over the years but feel this will now...