This is my experience at this restaurant. I went there about 2 months ago with friends who came to visit me. Why am I posting a review now,, it's because we are still talking about the poor experience here 2 months later, so I decided today to post my experience.

My friends came from Ireland to visit me, and wanted to experience the English Roast dinner. It was hot weather, I was in no mood to cook in that heat, so I suggested Toby Carvery (big mistake).

We were all very hungry so we all went for the Carvery +King size.

Things we noticed before getting our food. - The restaurant, seats, tables, furniture was looking a little tired. The menu had stains and was looking very tired. The floor really needs a good clean.

The staff looked tired, probably overworked, or poor moral, normally due to poor management. The staff did make good effort, attentive, polite, but looked exhausted. (Manager, if you are reading this, YES WE SEE things like this, and we know where it all stems from).

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Food time.. When at the counter/carvery area I could not help but notice how good the meat looked. The joints of meat looked like prime cuts. Very impressive. Top notch..

But the positive ends there. Even though we paid extra for the KING SIZE, what we were actually given was more like Child size. Very thinly cuts of meat and a small amount. I said to the chef behind the counter I had paid extra for the king size, he said "he knows" . He said "that's why I gave you more meat". So I wondered how much meat would a person get if they paid just for a normal carvery... No meat??? I was disappointed, so so disappointed. I thought how do I explain this disappointing food to my Irish friends. It was their first time in England. I was so embarrassed. Anyway I moved along and noticed these balls of,,, well something (not seen food like this before). I asked the man behind the counter what were they, (pointing my finger at these strange looking rugby balls) , he said in a smerky way "Yorkshire puddings". I almost collapsed in laughter. I just starred at him. I was lost for words. He said I could have two Yorkshire puddings. I didn't want any lol. But I took two because I paid extra for them.

I got my veg.. I'm not going to go into detail of how bad the veg was because I'm not a veg lover anyway. I went to this restaurant for the carvery, not for veg.

Anyway when everyone was sat down I could see the disappointment on everyone's face. I apologised to everyone. I felt so bad. But 2 months later when talking to my friends, we still laugh about the Toby Carvery day.

If any member of Toby Carvery is reading this then please listen. Yorkshire pudding is the very basics of cooking. It's obvious that your mixture and your oven temperatures are wrong, very wrong. I learned how to cook Yorkshire puddings at Junior school (showing my age now). It was the most basic food to cook. So how can you possibly get it so wrong? If I was the chef working there I would feel so embarrassed. Maybe give him/her some training on how to make Angels Delight, then scrambled eggs. Then if all goes well move on to Yorkshire pudding.

Sorry to be rude, but when you have the cheek to charge me/us for that substandard, very poor food, then i can give the cheek back at you, and well deserved too.

Disgusting, disgraceful, disappointing. Embarrassing 😔