Homemade Pork Crackling
Toby Carvery Bexley Heath

Toby Carvery Bexley Heath

Toby Carvery Bexley HeathCrook Log, London, United Kingdom

Meat • British • Desserts • Vegetarian


"My husband and I went to the Toby for dinner with 2 friends. I ordered a vegetarian meal and was told by our very nice waitress that it would be ready in 5-10 minutes. We waited at least 15 minutes before going to the carvery. While we were queuing for the others to get their carvery my waitress appeared with a plate and told me I didn’t need to queue and could go straight away to get the vegetables although my meal still wasn’t ready. As always I was given a square plate (to indicate a vegetarian meal although I’ve never understood why as the cost is the same as for a carvery) and as always it was stone cold. I asked her for a hot plate and was told that the square plates are never heated whereas the round ones are. This is too ridiculous for words, the vegetables are invariably only lukewarm and to put them on a very cold plate means eating a cold meal which is horrible. The person carving the meat eventually went to heat up a plate for me and I went to collect my vegetables. On returning to the table the meal was not there and after a few minutes we asked the waitress if it was ready. She replied that it still wasn’t ready and in fact when she brought the food I had completely finished eating the vegetables. I pointed this out (having been initially told it would be ready in 5 minutes) and she laughed and said I could go to get more vegetables. Obviously I didn’t want to eat 2 plates of vegetables. Is it not possible to provide a main course and vegetables at the same time and on a hot plate? We do feel that the quality of food and service has deteriorated in the many years we have been eating at the Toby Inn."