The Dun Cow, Bournmoor, County Durham — Restaurant in England

Genuinely the most disgusting Sunday dinner I’ve ever had, I’d say ate but I only managed three fork fulls.

The pub looks beautiful from outside, proof that looks can be deceiving.

We rang up to see if they did Sunday lunch, yes they said. Come down, as long as it’s before Quarter to four. We turned up at quarter past three.

We were asked if we wanted to sit in the bar or the restaurant area / conservatory. We chose the latter.

We seemed to get forgotten about and had to go and ask if we could order. When my partner attempted to order food we were then told only beef left, not just for Sunday lunch. For the whole menu. No children’s meals for my 18 month old. Just beef for everyone. Why could this have not been explained when we rang or when the menus were given ? Bit of a ‘Here’s what you could’ve had’. Pointless giving us a menu if you only have beef. I doubt this to be true to be honest, I think the chef couldn’t be bothered to ‘cook’ (word used lightly) anything else.

Whilst waiting I went to the toilet, thankfully didn’t need to change my baby as the baby change mat is ripped and filthy.

We had to ask for the lights to be put on as we were sat in the dark. No music etc, no atmosphere what so ever.

Food arrived, swimming in a watery strange coloured I presume what’s meant to be Gravy. A plate which I can only describe as a slither of glass carrying our veg rations. What looked like one carrot chopped, 2 small pieces of broccoli, some green beans and white cabbage (about a spoonful). Oh and then a small little pan containing Cauliflower cheese although the cheese looked and had the consistency of half dried PVA glue. The veg was not enough for 2 adults and a child.

The beef was so tough, it was awful. The whole dinner was Luke warm at best. The mashed potato was absolutely full of lumps. I got one very small roast potato. The whole dinner was seasoned with Oregano, literally every mouthful contained it.

It was all just disgusting.

I would never ever return here and would not recommend it to anyone.

No one appeared to be in charge or running the place. The poor young girls are just left to crack on and to be honest they don’t have much in the way of customer service skills but also no one to look up to or learn from from what we witnessed. Fake it till you...

Disgusting, walked in and told to find our own seats by blonde woman behind the counter, said she would bring a high chair over for the bairn, I stand for 5 minutes with the bairn whilst I wait for her to bring one over, 5 minutes passes by so the wife pops her head around the corner and the woman is stood there like a spare part. She asked if the chair was coming the woman said yes.

Then the most strange thing happened, a feral child came in and started eating the salt directly from the shaker, whilst staring at us. He then approaches our table and continues to stare whilst sprinkling an autumn leaf around us, like a little freak show.

Thankfully the older sister came, we thought we had been rescued from what had been an extremely disappointing weird experience. Unfortunately for us, she must of escaped from the local mental hospital along with him and started sucking on the salt and pepper pots. DISGUSTING.

In the end a big sweaty man in a wife beater turned up to take these feral patients away, I assume he was from the mental institute as he looked gormless and clueless as to what had happened. Looks like he just did a cross country marathon but in reality, after 10 minutes passed, he found the energy to scrape himself off his seat and rein his children in.

10 minutes passed and we could see that the woman behind the counter was still stood in the same place, twiddling her thumbs looking confused. Was she the done cow? Who knows but the whole experience was disgusting.

The menu’s had food on them, tables and chairs dirty, terrible attitude from blonde behind the counter. Feral mental patients running around doing some voodoo with autumn leaves. Just overall a terrible horrible experience.

Don’t waste your time or money...

The worst Sunday dinner I’ve ever had in my life, genuinely.

As a side note someone else that was in today has also left a review so we obviously were not the only ones that had a bad experience.

We had beef (nothing else available) and when it came it was absolutely swimming in the ‘gravy’ which had oil sitting on top of it, and a pile of mash and mashed turnip which just looked like a pile of slop with lumps in (and also a lump of something black!?)Bizarrely there were herbs and pepper covering the whole plate round the outside of the gravy which made everything taste awful.

The veg on the side was also swimming in something oily no idea what, the broccoli looked grey, I dared to try it and had to spit it out it was that disgusting, didn’t dare try the cabbage which looked like translucent mush.

The ‘cauliflower cheese’….I’m so baffled what this actually was, it looked more like cauliflower wallpaper paste and tasted like it too, could not eat it at all.

The meat was awful….chewy and hard. Two tiny measly roast potatoes. The Yorkshire pudding was ok but that’s literally the only positive.

We were waiting quite a while and the pub was very run down inside too, looked shoddy and dirty. We complained and they didn’t charge for one meal but it really should have been both.

Really bad, 0/10 do not...