The Pig — Restaurant in Hastings

Sadly this is yet another place in Hastings that's definately worth avoiding. The food & atmosphere are average, but thats not the problem or the main reason this place is such a no go zone. Some of the locals who frequent this place are a much bigger problem, and they seem to be in there all the time, especially just after dark when the place is almost empty. Their small minded obnoxious local mentality turns normal polite conversation into a full scale argument because of ridiculous personal issues they harbour which actually causes them to create problems with complete strangers who make the mistake of popping in for a quick drink, purely because they fail to agree with their sad misguided and shallow irrelevant opinions. which is difficult not to laugh at. They are exactly the type of people/losers who waste what little money they have from their monthly benefit government handouts on alcohol, and then have the audacity to complain they can't afford to pay their energy bills & they harbour a resentment toward anyone whom they imagine is not 'one of them', because they are clearly struggling to prop up a drinking problem, and they resent anyone who seems less patriotic than they imagine themselves to be, or slightly better off financially, while facing all the other easily avoidable problems & misery that having a self destructive alcohol addiction creates, jealousy and misguided belief of the entitlement they feel they are missing out on. While one can only feel sorry for people who have allowed themselves to sink to such a low level of existence, one must also understand people like that are potentially dangerous once they've had a few drinks, in a pathetic & comical but unpleasant sort of way, the alcohol gives them the dutch courage to voice their ignorant resentful opinions, and sadly that means they should be carefully avoided in order to side step needless ridiculous pathetic & pointless conflict, with exactly the kind of person the planet would be far better off without. Which unfortunately means this particular pub is a place to avoid. When in fact the establishment should be vigilant enough to keep people like that out, because although they may be regulars who spend a small amount every day, they are also territorial creatures of habit, who feel obliged to make customers who would probably spend much more than them feel uncomfortable unwelcome and intimidated, mostly because they are clearly nothing like them and so they make it clear they would sooner they left the premises, because people like that fear change and instantly despise anyone who might bring something challenging to the place they feel is on their turf, when they are actually just an unattractive piece of furniture that drinks beer. Which is of course totally out of touch with reality, as well as very sad & absolutely pathetic. Unfortunately A place like this will only ever change & improve for the better if somebody buys it and renovates it completely in order to take it up market, which would obviously attract better clientele, and definitely make much more money. As the place that used to be the Smugglers inn just a few meters away has clearly proven since it became a busy Indian restaurant. We can only hope a similar fate awaits The Pig in the not too distant future, as it is certainly an improvement that is...

Order food at 6pm, I know the place was busy as told there was 7 orders already.

9pm comes around and I called to chase the food, it's on it's way, food turned up 10 minutes later.

Now the food looks lovely but was cold and soggy, almost like it had been sitting for a while. Now this could be the containers, it could be the drive would take roughly 15mins. I'm sure if you were sitting in the pub the food would be amazing and hot but as what I'm assuming was a fix for covid I would probably suggest either more staff to increase turn around, supply drivers with heat bags or look into other solutions

Keep up the hard work and I hope it...

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