"Without wishing to be unkind (hence selection of poor rather than terrible , it is important to balance the other reviews of this pub to save other families the experience we have just had. Based wholly on tripadvisor recommendations this pub was chosen for a family get together and a booking made for Sunday. Maybe they should have said that they don 't open open a Sunday, who knows we were the only people there and the pub closed immediately after we left it. Definitely they should have said that they can 't provide the meals menu on a Sunday, and we would have gone elsewhere. We were clearly expected only to opt for a Sunday roast meal, so they were thrown by a request for alternatives. Four of us went with the roast, possibly due to the uncomfortable feeling that this was the expected only choice, and picked the beef after an assurance that it was medium rare (one of our party asked for advice on this, making it clear that if the beef was well done we would choose the pork instead not a problem if an accurate reply had been given . The roast when it came was predominantly grey: mountains of grey overcooked veg, dry and getting cold, with no form of sauce or seasoning; thin gravy and, worst, small portions of tough grey overcooked beef. The two others of our party who had asked for a ploughmans out of politeness, on the basis that clearly no other cooking was planned so hopefully this would not be too difficult, received a sad plate of unwashed salad, unripe tomato, elderly pickled shallots, tough celery and slightly sweaty cheese. One diner asked for no black pudding or pork pie and was awarded a huge slab of ham instead hardly a meat free plate. No bread was provided and when requested it was 6 triangles of white sliced and already heavily slathered with a spread that was admitted to be marg when challenged a request for bread with no spread prompted the reply that all the other bread was in the freezer. In desperation we asked for biscuits or crackers but the six crackers provided between two were soft and musty and clearly well past their expiry date. This was not an enjoyable occasion. Although the beer and other drinks were OK we would absolutely not recommend this as a place to eat. Fortunately we are a family with a sense of humour and will look back on this as our very own Fawlty Towers experience."
