My sister and I wanted to have a lunch out for her birthday. I suggested that we went to the horse and groom as I'd enjoyed a lunch there about 3 yrs ago.

We had a problem parking as there were a lot of cars in the car park, more cars than customers we later discovered. I parked opposite the entrance, not an official parking spot I know but I assessed it to be safe and not obstructing anything or anyone.

On getting into the bar I ordered a port and lemon for my sister as I was driving, and a diet coke for myself. The man behind the bar told me "we don't have any port", so she ordered something that he did have instead. We asked for a menu and were told that they were in the box. We looked around and found it on the wall, we looked through it and thought the choice was rather limited. Eventually we chose the slow cooked pork burger with apple sauce and stuffing served with chips and salad garnish. The meal was quite a while coming, and after thanking the waitress we started by opening the burger. There was a marble sized ball of what I think was stuffing, and a piece of soggy rind fat about 10cm X 4cm, but no sign of meat anywhere. It also contained salsa on the base of the bun, which was not mentioned in the menu ( my sister hates anything spicy). I called over the waitress and told her that our meal was unacceptable, I showed her the two pieces of fat served inside our burger. She apologized and took the plates away. Then the man that served us at the bar came over and told us that it was his favourite item on the menu. I explained that we understood it was going to contain slow cooked pork, not just pork fat rind. He asked me if we wanted to order something else, but we felt we had wasted enough time here and there was nothing else we fancied after that. He didn't offer to discount a meal or a drink to compensate us so we decided to go elsewhere for lunch.