Guest User
December 22, 2025
We booked lunch here to celebrate my birthday. The bar was welcoming with a warming fire and tables set with Christmas crackers. However, this is not where we were given a table. Was it because we had two young boys in our party, that we were shown to an adjoining room? - no welcoming fire in the grate; no Christmas crackers ( apparently, as we had not requested the Christmas dinner we were not entitled to crackers, even though it was December 20th). The room had one table for 6 (which we were shown to), and lots of settees and coffee tables. By the time our meal was served, the room had begun to fill with people just having drinks, and young couples with toddlers and babies, making us feel as if we were in the middle of a parents and babies group, not a pleasant restaurant. As for the food………. we did ask if it was possible to have some baked beans with one of the children’s meals. The reply to that was a resounding “No” until the waitress, perhaps feeling she had been rude, said that she would ask in the kitchen. Needless to say, no baked beans arrived, but what pub that serves breakfast, does not have a tin of baked beans in its store cupboard? The food was very average, served with unappetisingly overcooked/hard peas and anaemic potato wedges/chips. The meal out had been planned as a joyous family occasion. Instead we left feeling unwelcome and disappointed. We live locally, but certainly won’t be visiting this pub again.
