Being gluten free means it can be difficult finding places to eat when you're away from home. Did a quick search online and found this pub 5 mins away (by car) from our hotel. I ordered a Bacon cheeseburger (don't often eat burgers but I thought, why not?) but it came out without the bacon 😕 also had baked potato which was supposed to come with coleslaw but that was missing too so had to ask for butter so I wasn't just eating dry potato. I hope whoever got my bacon and coleslaw enjoyed them! We ordered a glass of coke, no ice (came with a lot of ice) and a gin and tonic, no ice, no slice (ended up with pink gin 🤢 and lemonade with lots of ice) So we looked for the angriest looking bar worker to order our next drinks with and result! Got what we ordered! We had desserts, which the lovely tall redheaded lady who works there was kind enough to bring me the ingredients on the actual products to check if I could eat them, she was the best thing about our experience here! I had the gf cheesecake, which I had to ask for the ice-cream that is supposed to come with it and my OH had some large thing that was missing cookie pieces 🤷♀️ The meal itself (apart from missing components) was actually really good. I didn't like the "Unisex" toilet in the dining area, I feel that it would have been better used as disabled/changing area. The toilet seat doesn't fit right and I had to wipe the porcelain before using the loo 🤢 also, water pressure seems to be an issue as the tap was ineffectual. All in all, not a brilliant experience but with a few tweaks, this place could be really good! On a final note, I didn't get her name but the lady with red hair who was working on 14/12/24 and had the awkward customer with the gluten/coconut issues, Thank you so much, if it wasn't for you, I'd have ended up with no dinner that night and you are the reason for 4 stars, it would have been 3 if it...
Read moreBought a half chicken on a bed of onions and peppers (could have been cooked better!) Chicken half ...well, it was like old leather! Very dry, difficult to cut and eat! Really, I should have sent it back. Worst, I've had, well the mrs anyway! I had chicken skewers also on a bed of same under cooked onions and peppers, both came with two side of our choice! The mrs choose corn on the cob! (Two very small and very soggie cobs about an inch long!) Looked and tasted like they had been left in warm water so not very nice I'm told and secondxside was coal slaw, home made so pretty much very high in fats, I had the same, slaw, mine was the same, shop bought way better, and crisper too! Thus was like eating oily or greasy slaw! My other side was onion rings, they were not actual onion rings but onion paste, not as if there difficult to make! The chicken skewers were good but again a little over cooked but certainly much better than the sorry looking chicken half, was a very small half too! Food came pretty fast but would have preferred a little longer wait for food cooked fresh and not well over done! It's a fair time since I was last in there, and will be a much longer wait beforecever going again, such a shame, it used to be a great place for the first few years there, but sure gone down hill with freshness and food...
Read moreAfter previous very satisfying visits, I am very sorry to say that our pre-booked and very much anticipated Boxing Day visit with the family was disappointing to say the least. We waited over half an hour for our starters even though we had a booked timeslot and pre-chosen menu. The starters were the best part of the meal. In the party of 8 the meals were as follows:- Steak medium rare, medium and 2x well done, all were chewy and not very hot. Chips were luke warm. Burger. Warm, bread bun cold and cheese like plastic and cold. Fries were decent temperature. Salmon, hot on the outside, raw and cold in the middle, jacket potato rock hard. 2x Christmas dinners were as should be. Deserts mostly were fine except the mincepie bakewell was frozen in the middle. The 'gluten free' dessert turned out not to be and no alternative was given despite the full price being paid at the end. Timing was an issue too, the steaks had been served and finished with before the Christmas dinners were served. 2 members of staff deserve recognition for their efforts to rectify things and smooth things out. They are Craig and Katy. We shall return because this isn't our usual experience and I believe in giving people a chance to...
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