The Corner House Free House & Garden — Restaurant in Worthing

Disappointing Sunday Roast. I’m sad to say this as I have been coming to this pub the last 3 years, and I always loved the Sunday Roasts, which many people say are the best in town. We met up with friends who are new to Worthing as we wanted them to have a good experience. This weekend I chose the vegan parcel, as did my friend with dietary needs. The menu said it was gluten free, but it turned out that wasn’t accurate. She was given the contents of the parcel minus the pastry along with the veg, which was minuscule. She was initially offered falafels to make up for it, but then it turned out they were out, and so they offered her a small bowl with more contents. This looked like a small cup of lentil soup. After complaining she eventually got extra roasted potatoes. However, I can say she wasn’t missing much though. I found the parcel to be pathetically small, bland and unappealing. There wasn’t much veg, all of which was undercooked and unseasoned, and the cauliflower cheese was cold, hard and a bit sour. The stuffing balls were dry and lacked any flavour. Two of our party had their orders mixed up, and were given the wrong cuts of meat. They didn’t charge my friend for her sad vegan meal, and they did give an extra portion of beef when the meat mix up was spotted. At the end I left feeling embarrassed for taking my friends there, still hungry, and annoyed at having paid £30 for a lunch and feeling the only decent thing was my glass of wine. Sadly I think I’ll only be back for the atmosphere and a...

Met friends for lunch and drinks. Beautiful place, great music, day time customer service beyond poor. To say the staff member I spoke to about my inedible "fish finger" sandwich was disappointing would be an understatement. She was rude, arrogant and tried to completely belittle me. I have never seen a cylindrical fish finger in my life let alone tasted one that bad. I told her whatever fish it was inside was like mush and asked what fish it was - i was told it was a fish finger!!! Eventually she asked the chef and the response was cod - definetly not a Birds Eyes fish finger then 😂😂 I was asked if I wanted something else so I asked for chips. I wasn't even offered a drink to make up for the 10 quid I'd paid for the sandwich and a handful of chips, in actual fact she didn't even try to apologise!! I couldn't trust myself to talk to her anymore about it because by this point she'd got my back up to the point i would have been in the wrong if we had continued this conversation. HOWEVER, the late afternoon, early evening shift took over and it was a totally different gaff. Service was served with a please and a thank you, our table was cleared of glasses for the first time and the staff were way more friendly and did their job with a smile. Moral of the story - lovely place for an evening drink but avoid the "fish finger"...

I’m genuinely astonished that The Corner House in Worthing manages to function as a restaurant and not as an elaborate prank show. I visited expecting a meal, but what I got was a masterclass in how not to cook.

Let’s start with the meat, or rather, the medically alarming slab of undercooked protein that slithered onto my plate. If I wanted something still mooing, I’d have gone to a petting zoo. Then there were the Yorkshire puddings: charred into oblivion, they resembled fossilized relics from an archeological dig rather than anything fit for human consumption.

The vegetables? Crunchier than a bag of gravel. And as for the cauliflower cheese—bitter, cold, and suspiciously hard—it felt like an avant-garde experiment in how many ways you can disrespect a vegetable. I’ve had better textures from airplane food, and that’s saying something.

Honestly, my grandmother could’ve cooked a better meal, and she’s been dead for 30 years. In fact, if she’d clawed her way out of the grave to make this dinner, it still wouldn’t have been as horrifying as what your kitchen served us.

I strongly suggest you fire whoever’s responsible for this culinary tragedy or at least send them back to whatever dark corner of YouTube they learned these “skills” from.

Do better....