Spike's at The Lodge — Restaurant in Rother

Absolutely Awful, Possibly the worst meal I have had in my life, Went here as a party of 6, and after reading the menu online expectations were high. This Restaurant claimed to be casual fine dining with a Oyster Menu , Steak Menu , Small Plate menu and a Large Plate Menu all of which looked really good. On arrival we were shown to our table which was just a plain round table with a knife and fork adjacent to each chair.....Not very fine! We were then given the menu on a printed out piece of A4 paper which just had a selection of Burgers/Fish and chips /Lasagne/Spagetti Bol and Fillet or sirloin steak and some sides! No oyster menu, or any of the fine dining on their website.. It was just a pub menu nothing else. When we asked about this we were told that the chef was off and that this was the menu. We asked if it possible to have fish without the batter with just a salad , which the waiter said "yes,we will work the menu around you", we also ordered a vege pizza and spaghetti bolg and a steak. We waited over an hour for the food, when it arrived the fish was battered, and when the waiter was questioned he said chef said "there was no batter on the fish, so there wasn't any batter on the fish".When he was challenged about this he became abusive towards us. The spaghetti bol was made with tagliatelle and there was no sauce it was just dry meat mixed with pasta. The pizza had the wrong ingredients on, so another was ordered.... when this turned up it was still wrong and we were told they didnt have the correct ingredients for this pizza! The steak was supposed to come with roasted tomatoes.. it came with some cold cherry tomatoes, we then asked for some roasted tomatoes, when these finally turned up they were slammed on the table.We were also served warm bottled larger. There was absolutely nothing fine about this place and it was truly awful, the owner should not be allowed to use Spike Milligans name to endorse his restaurant. The service was appalling and the food was just as bad!!! BE WARNED CANT GIVE THIS REVIEW ANY STARS BUT HAVE TO GIVE 1...

We went to have Sunday lunch and when we walked in I didn’t get a warm welcome, I felt the look I got was slightly disinterested. We sat down and asked for a menu but were told it’s a carvery which was lovely ! There was no one checking if we were ok or wanted more drinks. A family walked in with a young child and they allowed him to listen to noisy entertainment on a device which ruined the peace- then the child was banging a stick and walking around while the whole family were oblivious to where he was or who he might be talking to. ! They must be regulars because the manager made lots of conversation with them ….The girl serving asked if we wanted pudding and she appeared with 3 options for dessert or ice cream that was it. We waited ages to place the dessert order and had to go to the bar to find three staff members mooching around and ask for what we wanted, disappointed, this isn’t the best for service but the...

We complained that the food was undercooked and the girl just stared at us and didn’t say anything. Then we explained what was wrong again and she just said ‘ ok I will feed it back to the chef’. When we went to pay she kept staring at us from across the bar whilst we were paying with another member of staff. Very strange experience, unwelcoming and really rude manager lady. We had previously really enjoyed our roast but the Yorkshire puddings and gammon were undercooked. Not good customer service at all. Such a shame as the place has much potential but this girl shouldn’t be working in a customer service job with a funky attitude problem. We travelled 40 minutes just to got here and had been 5 times before. She ruined our whole experience and view of...