Wavertree Town Hall

Well, we have eaten at many better places. The evening did not go well. We - six of us - were put in a dark room at the back although we would have preferred to sit in the front room that has windows but were told all the tables were reserved (nobody ever came to sit at them though while we were there). Eventually more guests arrived in the back room with us. We weren't told that the usual Tapas were no longer on offer until we had ordered our drinks so only had roast dinners as an option, which would be fine except that we went specially for the tapas. The other tables received their drinks, then their dinners, long before we did, and were actually already leaving when we were told - two whole hours after we had arrived! - that there were no Yorkshire puddings left. This seemed very rude, we had ordered them almost two hours ago, surely they could have told us before, or served our dinner on time and then the later arrivals would have had to do without. They offered to reduce the bill somewhat, and finally we received our dinner. None of the food was worth the wait. The "roast" potatoes were pale, and raw and cold in the middle, the lamb overdone and mainly gristle (almost ALL gristle), the chicken dry, the spare ribs dry and hard ("falling off the bone tender" in the menue) with an inedible sauce, asking for some bread resulted in two slices of baguette with a terrible rancid garlic butter (how on earth can you spoil garlic butter?) which cost five pounds. I could go on. None of my guests enjoyed their starters or their dinner, the highest praise from a very polite guest was, "Well, it was all right I suppose." The whole fiasco cost us almost 200 pounds, and that was with the reduction. The place should not offer food if they don't know how to cook and serve it properly. We will definitely never be going back there.