Sportsmans Arms — Restaurant in England

Because we had heard good reviews about the Duck we met for a very rare morning to enjoy a spare moment with our daughter for breakfast. Unfortunately we will not be returning for a meal. We waited over an hour to receive our breakfast of 2 full and. one vegetarian. Despite being only three being there. The vegetarian breakfast was asked to be supplied with poached eggs but arrived with fried eggs. My daughter and husband both breakfasts arrived later than the my breakfast, our daughters breakfast was dropped on the floor by the waitress. Clearly stressed after the remark that the eggs were incorrect, ( fried not poached) the toast and tomatoes were picked up off the floor with an offer to replace only the toast, however our daughter had no tomatoes supplied. A short while later the waitress arrived with the toast whilst busy answering a phone call, toast dropped on the table with a so called apology whilst still in the telephone call. Our daughter and myself were busy exchanging the incorrect eggs which we informed the waitress we would do, however, I have an allergy to meat which is why I ordered the vegetarian breakfast. I could only have 1 egg as the other was very close to the meat. Eggs and mushrooms were over cooked, very shrivelled. I am unable to digest meat, mistakes from others have put me in hospital for a week, obviously it is something I would rather avoid. However, My daughter and my husband said their breakfast were very tasty, the bacon and sausage tasted good. The wait we didn’t mind because we had time to chat, a one off experience. The man behind the bar was very pleasant and couldn’t do enough to please. Very welcoming. I would return for evening of drinks but definitely not for a meal. A very pretty pub, plenty of parking, A shame to leave negative feedback. Show less Date of visit:...

The Sportsmans Arms has a problem with an rude barman. Bear with me as this takes a little explaining. We arrived at the pub having made a booking for dinner. After a few moments a friendly waitress gave us some menu's and returned to her duties. Moments later another friendly member of staff asked if we were ready to order, of course having just received the menu's we weren't ready to do so. This will become relevant later. Subsequently we placed our food order and all seemed well.

The food was taking some time to arrive, so after about 45 minutes I enquired at the bar if it would be much longer. After eventually getting the barman's attention I was told that every patron had ordered at once, and he added that when we were first asked what we wanted to eat we weren't ready. Customer service was clearly not his forte. He repeated several times he was happy to cancel the order and his final words, as he disappeared into the kitchen were "I don't need to be here, I could be retired". How this was pertinent to the situation I have yet to ascertain. I would have accepted "sorry we're really busy, I'll check with the kitchen". But to be blamed for the reason our order was late is a new one to me.

Eventually our meal arrived via our original, very friendly, waitress. On a more positive note the food was excellent and clearly freshly cooked. It is also a nice solid old fashioned Cornish pub with a good atmosphere. Just a shame...

Went for Sunday Lunch to check out if the pub could go on our list for our Sunday Lunch Club. Average 15 people. It was awful, so much salt and pepper in the vegetables we couldn't eat them. Frozen potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. The beef was OK, but not sure what cut it was. The young staff were lovely. The older lady who i think was the landlady, didn't even acknowledge us when we arrived. More interested in putting music on. We...