The Queens Chew Magna — Restaurant in England

Nice old pub but ashamedly managed. Dirty everywhere, plates and food left on the empty tables, glasses in the unclean bathroom. Once seated, we had to ask for a cloth to clean our table that was evidently dirty. I've eaten in a broken plate and had to clea my mouth with a cheaper paper serviette, the same used for camping, because they don't provide proper table napkins. We have been instantly served our microwaved food with all the veg on the plate heavely irrorated with granular grevy. The sauces came straight from a packet, the apple sauce we have been served was the same used into the apple souce croissants...kids enjoyed that fakly sugary flavour. Three young ladies were in charge but they seemed all three totally oblivious about the evident problems the pub present. Service was bad as the rest of it and after having to battle with the flies that infested the main room, my wife decided to leave the food and go back to the car as fast as we can. We should had expected something bad considering that on Sunday lunch the pub was nearly empty at exeption for couple of tables. It's a shame that such lovely building with all its potential is managed in that surreal way. Hopefully the owner will end reading this review and make something good of...

The first visit post pandemic and the changes since my last attendance are quite astonishing and a pleasure to behold.

Extensive indoor reconfiguration and decor after an expensive refit internally and externally, the garden is most attractively laid out. All it needs is conducive weather (not available on this visit) to be enjoyed. Money has been well spent.

Not on the Cask Marque Ale Trail, although it should be. A Bristol Beer Factory 'Tme to Burn' (4%ABV) was well worth a Cask Marque accreditation. The front of staff were also quick to serve a sampler before purchase just as those who are Cask Marque trained are taught to do.

Also worth a mention, Mike, our waiter on the day, courteous and attentive but not intrusive, clearly well attuned to customer facing protocol. The meals served, from a menue with many original recipes, was beyond reproach. My own starter, modified to my request and my dining colleague's faddy peculiarities, were catered for without demur.

A most enjoyable evening - to...

Not my cup of tea went for Sunday roast, there's alot of flavours going on like cinnamon or star anise in the red cabbage, a spoon of parsnip puree that got mixed in the gravy as it was under the Yorkshire pudding that was literally full of air, you get one slice of pork belly that is also covered in a apple sauce I didn't even taste the stuffing that came with it, we had some green cabbage and some peas and some other thing looked like cucumber tossed in some oil or something, the cauliflower cheese very small portion literally consists of two florets, you get one roast potatoe which is cut in half, it's a very complicated taste, I prefer to taste my veg as appososed to allsorts of added flavours, the jerk chicken wings for starters were bland you can hardly taste anything related to a jerk chicken, it was accompanied by a sauce that was literally a few dribbles, and sprinkled with some chilli seeds, or something sadly not...