Beef Stroganoff Beef Stroganoff

Tender beef strips in a creamy mushroom sauce, served over egg noodles.

The Folly

The Folly

The Folly Inn London Road Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 6LB, NN12 6AW, United Kingdom

Cafés • Seafood • European • Fast Food


"Booked this based on v good trip adviser reviews. Looking at website menu prices the expectation was that this pub is very definitely aimed at the posh end of things. If anything more high end than I wanted that weekend but they had availability where a couple of other pubs on my list didn 't so I went for it anyway and booked. Welcome in the bar was warm, first impression of the formica table and the rather cafeteria glasses plonked on it was rather unsettling but I told myself the food would more than make up for such a trivialities. The wait to order drinks and food was about right. It being a Sunday my Dad and I ordered roast lamb, and my daughter ordered whitebait. The wait for the food was long. The roasts arrived with huge Yorkshire puddings (will never understand that with lamb but not complaining which turned out to be rather crispy, the lamb thinly sliced and swimming in gravy was lovely and tender but was tepid! The vegetables were an uninspired boiled collective including cubes of swede that I haven 't seen or endured since school dinners. The whitebait were rather too large for my 10 year old daughter 's sensibilities but that 's our issue not the Folly 's they were nicely cooked in a spicey batter, but I was expecting the usual 1 2 inch long fish not the 3 inch ones that arrived and she tried to eat them but freaked out and finished off my by now cold lamb so I think I won that exchange ; I made it up to her with a pudding (2 different sorbets which took so long to arrive she had to leave half of it or risk 'brain freeze. ' In a final irony, you know how in some restaurants you are inundated by inquiries as to whether your food is ok? In this case if I had been asked I 'd have sent back the food in favour of something that was actually hot but no one asked, and as my dad is struggling with dementia I wasn 't going to call someone over and cause a scene. Ambience might be good at other times but don 't expect much on a Sunday lunchtime."

Brownlow Inn

Brownlow Inn

Brownlow Heath Lane, CW12 4TH, Cheshire East, United Kingdom

Pubs • Full • Steak • Lunch


"I’ve never been before, we came yesterday for family dinner looking forward to a roast lunch dinner. The menu only had a choice of lamb or beef, not liking beef the choice for me was lamb. Within minutes a lady came to advise the lamb “had just sold out” I said I didn’t like beef but no other option was given and I therefore had to have the beef. The meal arrived the Yorkshire’s were not risen and burned. The vegetables were very nice the beef was shaped like a block mine was dry and over cooked. My husband had poured gravy all over his so he couldn’t tell but I don’t like a lot of gravy on my food and I could tell I gave my beef to him. We ordered a burger/cheese/bacon meal for our 12 year old, I made it really clear to the young girl to plead only out cheese/bacon/burger on and no healthy stuff no onions nothing she laughed and said she has a brother who is the same so understands we ordered the adult version as it said the children’s was for 10 years and under. My sons burger arrived with a load of crispy onions lettuce and tomatoes everything we had asked NOT to be added, I took the food off but he wouldn’t touch it having seen the salad was on it! After eating my main it was a massive disappointment to see the man behind us being served a roast lamb dinner when I was told it had all sold out!!!! I had ordered fruit crumble this was a massive portion in a bowl the crumble topping was nice but the fruit underneath tasted like melted jam rather than just gently cooked fresh fruit there was more fruit sauce than fruit making it quite sloppy I had a couple of mouthfuls and left it."

Frascati Pizzeria

Frascati Pizzeria

181 Charminster Road, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Pizza • Sushi • Asiatic • Fast Food


"There are lots of places near us that serve pizza but they don't serve it up as tasty as this. The service is simply first.class from the whole team. Frascati Pizzeria has only been around for a few months and it was on the list of places to visit that my wife has so we decided as we were walking past to pop in. I've given Frascati Pizzeria 5 stars because I really did love it. The staff (owners) are very polite and attentive which is sincere and genuine. The restaurant itself has a very rustic feel to it. Although small (only about 8 tables if I remember) you aren't crammed in and have an intimate feeling. The owners are planning to expand the restaurant to fit more in and I doubt that they will find it difficult to get bums on seats. The menu is small. I like that as there is nothing worse than looking at a menu with too much to choose from. What they do offer though is a good choice of pizza, pasta and chicken with desert and sides plus a selection of beverages to accompany your meal. Just as you enter the restaurant you'll see where your pizza is cooked fresh and on-site. I love pizza that is cooked this way and that will go some way to how they taste so good. There is also seating area where you can sit whilst waiting for a your table and have a drink. I'd also like to say thank you for the free desert they offered my wife to mark her birthday. A very generous offer that was gratefully received. We've been back and had 4 pick ups from them now and each time the Pizza has tasted simply beautiful. We are aiming to get back to sit in very very soon."