The Exhibition — Restaurant in Huntingdonshire

Went into the exhibition today around 5:30 to meet up with family who had been in there a few hours prior having drinks outside. We are regulars who go in there at least once a week whether it be in the day for a drink or early evening for dinner as it is a family friendly and dog friendly pub. Never had any problems in there before, the lady who is always working is super nice and accommodating, always chatting away and lovely to my daughter. I even had a gender reveal party for my daughter in there and we’ve been in there on Christmas Day!!! Today we had some drinks outside, then went into the bar to have some dinner early evening time. The bar was busy & super noisy there was workmen drinking at the bar, family’s next to us with children playing, dogs sat in there, etc. When I went to order our dinner at the bar there was about 5 people serving and a child ran behind the bar! Just to give an idea of how busy and loud it was! Start eating our dinner and my daughter started crying, she cried for a maximum of 1 minute before she stopped and was absolutely fine. We also didn’t just leave her there crying, we were sorting her out! She is 13 months old, she can’t talk, can’t communicate any other way but crying!? So she’s bound to cry at one point? Considering it’s a family friendly pub they should be expecting this. The owner Paul then comes over to us, tells us to be considerate to other people in the pub, he said that he has kids - Not sure why he said that because then he clearly knows that children cry. Was just being down right rude to me for no reason considering she hasn’t even cried that long. I was shocked I didn’t know what to say to him, I couldn’t believe he’d actually said that as I didn’t see any issue in how long she’d cried for! We asked the table next to us if they had been bothered by her crying that didn’t even last a minute and they didn’t even know what we were talking about - probably because it is a pub and so noisy anyway!! I would understand if she was crying for a long time and I didn’t do anything about it but for all of 1 minute I’m not going to go outside whilst I’m mid eating my dinner just to walk back in again! If she’d of continued to cry then of course I’d of gone outside to calm her down! I honestly don’t know why he said it to us, if he’s a parent himself then surely he knows that situations like that can be so tough for parents. But what are we suppose to do? Never go out for dinner again? As I walked out I said to Paul ‘happy now’ and he waved me off 🤣 I’ve spoke to people about what happened and a lot of people seem to dislike Paul and also say they won’t go in there when he’s in there! Wonder why. Honestly the whole thing was a complete joke and I will not be stepping foot in there if...

Very disappointing visit. Plus points - easy booking over phone. Turned up at 7:30 and nobody else in restaurant Nice decor and ambience. Bar and restaurant staff friendly and polite. Food not so good. “Baked Brie” worst I’ve ever had, served on a slate with a crudely broken chunk of bread which nearly rolled off into my lap when the waiter handed it to me. The Brie was horrible (see photo). I’m convinced it was a few measly chunks of brie thrown into a bowl with some onions and microwaved. The idea is to be able to dip bread into it but it was not runny like I expected. I immediately returned it and ordered the cheddar and ham croquettes (which thankfully were okay). As if that wasn’t bad enough, when my main meal (pie of the day) turned up, the pie was luke warm and I had to return that too!! I don’t normally like to complain in restaurants so twice in one night is quite a bad night. While I was waiting for my main course to be returned the bar manager came and apologised, offering us another round of drinks, which we assumed were complementary. However, when I paid the bill it became clear that nothing had been deducted from the bill for any of the food or drinks and we had been charged for those drinks. Needless to say I didn’t leave a tip! Before leaving the restaurant I walked past the kitchen and saw the two male chefs larking around with another chap. Their raucous laughter could still be heard when i returned to the bar. Perhaps if they focused more on their jobs they would produce better results. Won’t be...

A group of us went for lunch to this place and oh my goodness what a let down. The White wine was horrible to start with and the gin given was not what was asked for and had to be returned.

The service was slow, and the restaurant was empty except for us, and when the food finally came out it was awful.

The paella was a risotto (and warm in some places and cold in others), the salad looked like a handful out of an old supermarket bag, a hot sandwich was stone cold and was completely inedible (in fairness they didn't charge for this but it meant someone went hungry), the chilli was cold and the chilli basket stale.

Apparently the burgers and steak were "okay" and the chips were quite nice.

Then came the desserts, highly expensive and small portions and the biscuits with the (most expensive dessert on the menu) cheese board were stale. The grapes were clearly several days old.

This is a trip that this group makes every quarter but we were all unanimous in agreement that we will never, ever make a return visit to the Exhibition.

The White Hart wipes the floor...