"We visited the hanging gate today, it's the first time since the lockdowns, we used to enjoy this place and especially at seasonal time, today we visited it was all set up for Halloween it looked great, the place was unusually quiet but could just have been because it was a midweek visit we usually go at weekends. Basically it was just us and two girls other than a birthday party of adults that came in, I ordered the mixed grill, it had gone up from £18 to 26.95 but sadly that's how things are with food price increases, electric etc you k ow the script, I have loved this meal in the past bit sadly today's aasnt as good as in the past, the black pudding, suasage and liver were lovely and surprisingly the pork chop which I am not a fan of was good too, unfortunately the fries were cold, the onion rings over done and cold, the steak was 70% meat the rest was gristle, the lamb was 20% lamb the rest was bone and fat but the mouthful I got was very nice, gammon acceptable, the chicken, no idea, noe like any chicken I've ever had, wondered if it was a veggie version I was being blagged with, mushrooms tasted very odd and the peas were rock hard, 3 of my part had peas and all left them, I told the server this she knocked off £6.95, the value of my childs meal. Onto desert I fancied the chocolate fade cake, but then saw the chocolate sundea, 3 of us opted for that as it had chocolate fudge cake pieces in, the sundaes arrived and I was pleased to see real cream not spray cream, it had chocolate chips in which were too much really for my teeth as the chunks were a good size but once in ice cream quite solid but nice, sadly though there was no chocolate fudge cake in either of the sundaes, I felt awful having to mention this to the server it made me cringe, the server said there's nothing she could do as the boss or I assume it was the boss wasn't it she quoted a name I can't remember, so the chocolate fudge cake that sd the desert to us was missing and no reduction, a bit like buying a car with no discount that has no wheels when it arrives, we were hoping thos was going to be our Christmas family gathering of 12 people venue but we have decided we won't return here again it's gone down hill from its previous glory. Finally why do they have the prices for everything in the menus but we couldn't find a price for any beers or soft drinks and 25 minutes for 4 standard meals seemed a little long really for a very quiet resteraunt ."
