The Bull Inn Bisham — Restaurant in England

Some of the worst food I’ve ever eaten. Genuinely terrible cooking. This place is a beautiful building and the waiting staff are attentive despite being dressed like Spanish waiters from the 1980s. Indeed the whole place is a remnant of the 80s, a time when British food was renowned for being awful, and this place is an example of of the worst of 80s food.

The food itself. I started with Jamon Serrano on french bread. The dish was lacking any french bread, and it was prosciutto rather than Serrano ham. It was three pieces of Ham laid side by side. That was it. Another of our party had mushroom Farçis. This was nothing like any other Farçis I have seen, it consisted of bullet proof grade mushroom surrounding slimes tasteless prawn mush, still, it came with gloopy tartare sauce, that was just as bad.Awful. Still, it could have been worse. A nearby party had melon. A fan of melon with a slice of orange and a glance cherry! In 2019! But worse still, it was melon with ginger. The ginger being powdered ginger from a sugar shaker. Incredible.

On to the mains. Fish which appeared to have been frozen and looked slimey. Liver which was stone cold and steak which was admittedly well cooked.

And then the vegetables. Oh my.

Courgettes in pools of water. New potatoes cooked so long that they were mushy, cauliflower cheese where I could see lumps of flour in the sauce. And then the fries. Soggy and undercooked. I’ve never had fries like them. What restaurant can’t cook basics like these? How can you get new potatoes wrong? How can you get fries wrong? And worse still, they were served to you on a small side plate. Just utterly weird.

And then the sweet trolley. Oh my. There was a bowl with almonds, grapes and bananas. But it all sat in a puddle of brown water. To be honest it looked like bin juice and I was thoroughly put off. The lemon meringue pie looked nice, but sadly the meringue wasn’t made correctly and was full of sugar crystals. The cheesecake? If I had to bet I’d say it hadn’t seen cheese in its life. A weird gelatinous form which had the wrong texture, no flavour and wobbled like a hypothermic spaniel.

It’s 20 years since I’ve eaten food this poorly cooked (including my own). It’s genuinely...

Not the best experience, not sure what went wrong on this visit. Mushrooms with tartare sauce arrived as a basic plateful of deep fried mushrooms with a little bit of salad and the waiter asked if we wanted tartare sauce even though the menu already said it came with it. The leek and potato soup was watery and they neglected to serve it with bread without us prompting them and when the bread did arrive it wasn't really the crusty french baguette I was expecting to see. The cod was ok, a little overdone but nothing to complain about, the chicken was dry and served in a creamy looking sauce that had very little taste. Carrots and courgettes were ok, broccoli and cauliflower were bordering on being just about cooked so was very aldente but the "cheese" sauce for the cauliflower hadn't been anywhere near a bit of cheese it was a basic white sauce with no taste. The potatoes were nondescript. The whole of both dishes were bland and not exactly inspiring. To top it all there was a bit of grit in the cauliflower. When we told the waiter about the sauce and the grit he tried to say the grit was part of the seasoning, probably a bit of pepper, I know the difference between a roughly ground peppercorn and a bit of sharp black grit. He went away saying he would report it but when the head waiter came over with the sweet trolley we had to tell him again and this time he kind of stormed off and then the manager came over, apologised and listened to our criticism and offered a drink on the house and a voucher. We were at pains to say we weren't "after anything" and were just commenting on the food standards. He insisted though so we stayed a while waiting for the offered drink but it never arrived so we paid our bill in full and left. Not sure if we'll return to the bull after this which is a shame as up to now over the past 20 years or so it has been an indulgent treat mainly for the experience rather than the quality...

Terrible pub. I went for a Sunday Roast and found the place to be very dingy. The lighting is poor and the place is overall very cramped and hard to get round. It was also too hot, they had the heating turned up way too high. Very dated inside and in desperate need of a revamp. Not good food. My Yorkshire Pudding was bunt to the crisp and I received little meat and you can also only choose to have one type of meat. Also, they bring the food out on silly little plates (for example, putting the potatoes on a different plate than your meat). I found this pointless as I had to then put everything on one plate myself. Not to mention that my potatoes were also under cooked. Value for money is exceptionally poor and the place is very overpriced for what you get. Toby Carvery's food is so much better and value for money. Then it was desert time and they brought a cake selection out on a trolley. The use of the trolley was pointless as they pub was so small it was impossible to get the trolley around the tables. The waiters kept bumping into my chair from behind, which I found so unprofessional. I found the choice of deserts on the trolley a poor way of presentation. It didn't even look like they were fresh as I could see that the deserts had been sitting around for ages out the back. I received a very small portion of desert and I even had to ask the waiter to give me a bigger slice of cake, as he tried to give me a small portion. Typical cost-cutting. The fact that they bring the deserts round on a trolley, kind of forces the customers to buy an expensive desert, as you feel like you have to when they bring the trolley round. Everything about the place I didn't like. The staff were annoying and kept pestering us every few minutes. Overall, it is safe to say that I will never be...