Three Lions — Restaurant in Waverley

Good traditional drinking pub and I have nothing against the staff as they were relatively helpful and friendly. At times it was difficult to tell if the chap was trying to be funny or just had a bit of an attitude - usually I don't have a problem discerning one from the other though, but giving the benefit of the doubt here.

But...food here is not up to par with any other pub I've eaten in for 10 years, actually embarrassingly so. Fish and chips was literally a fillet from Iceland, chips were luke warm and in short supply apparently. Any testimony that the fish wasn't a frozen fillet would very likely be a lie. 4 dishes were tried and all really disappointing, so not an isolated incident. Burger was very low quality for £15 and featured ends of the tomato.

We didn't say anything because it was clear any alternative offering wasn't going to be any good either and we were hungry.

Whilst prices are maybe about £2-3 less than other pubs per dish, this is still terrible value for money because the quality is so poor.

Not expecting gourmet food, but at least home cooked and not microwaved/ovened supermarket frozen food. My suggestion would be to cut the menu down by 80% and offer a few solid options that could well be prepared in advance and reheated. Or just stop doing food if the volumes are so low that it's uneconomical to offer anything but frozen stuff.

I write this review with respect, and because I really wish I could have read a similar one before coming to this pub for food.

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Such a lovely pub in such a shabby unloved condition only brought on by the brewery , Shepherd Neame, who have not done their outside refurbishment that should be done very 7 years. The pub is currently closed looking sad and is falling apart. A lot of investment needs to happen here for this pub to thrive, which with the brewery's current and past performance seems unlikely.

It would be very hard for this pub to be viable now , given that the newly very highly refurbished "The Ragged Robin" up the road in Meadrow is now open selling Draught beer cheaper than the 3 lions was ( cant be helped by the Tenant dur to tied wholesale prices) . I wish any ingoing Tenant the best of luck here.

Its very sad and I truly hope this pub survives but in order to do so, heavy negotiation needs to be made with the Brewery for it to be a...

Donna behind the bar was so lovely to my mum when she was there! Mum was struggling to find away to get to the next town and Donna went above and beyond to get her a taxi. The taxi driver ended up being the owner of the pub who went out of his way to help her. She said they were the friendliest pub of her whole trip and would highly recommend to people. Lovely staff and wonderful customer service from this pub. I can't thank them enough for...