George & Dragon — Restaurant in England

My family and I had an unfortunate experience at George & Dragon today.

We were looking for a late lunch and called ahead to confirm that they'll be able to accommodate us if we arrived before 4. We got there around 3:45 and the hostess seated us and even got a high chair for my kid.

However, no one took our order for some time and around 4, the chef informed us that he'll not be able to cook for us and suggested that we might have called another pub with the same name. To be fair, he did offer to cook us something simple but I didn't want to force the lad to cook for us on Sunday and left promptly.

Ideally I'd have preferred to be refused service when we came in requesting a table rather than after being made to wait. I hope this was a one off incident and you'll do better in the future.

On the plus side got a sandwich at the neraby Subway on the way home which was better than expected!

PS: Adding a screenshot of my Google maps timeline to confirm that I was not at the wrong...

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