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Spikes Bistro At Dudsbury Golf Club

Spikes Bistro At Dudsbury Golf Club

64 Christchurch Road, East Dorset, United Kingdom

Drinks • British • European • Breakfast


"Ordered lamb shepherd's pie from menu and was brought a plate of mince . The menu description said it was lamb mince topped with mashed potato, not a potato in sight when it arrived.! On enquiry with the waiter I was assured this was shepherd's pie. I have made hundreds of shepherd's pies in my 80 years and have never had one without a potato topping, generally browned in the oven on top or put under the grill. To make matters worse the waiters all insisted this was shepherd's pie and on consulting the chef, who never came out to see me, I was told the mashed potato was mixed in with the mince. This is not shepherd's pie, not even the deconstructed ones which still have the potato separate. When I showed one of the waitresses a picture of shepherd's pie she said in a very supercilious tone that the chef certainly knew how to make a shepherd's pie but he clearly did not . If he wanted to change the way it was made , the menu should have said that it was not the usual method. I wouldn't have had it then . I offered to accept it if some chips were served with it but this was completely ignored. The dish was then taken away and after a long wait I was offered an alternative. Note to staff in this situation produce the alternative quickly! I was kept waiting so long that my friend had eaten her meal and her pudding before I got my meal. It was a perfectly good lasagne obviously not made from scratch while I waited. Luckily, the chef stuck to the traditional recipe this time and did not decide to cut up the pasta into small pieces and stir it into the mince!"

Doubletree By Hilton St. Anne's Manor, Omnia

Doubletree By Hilton St. Anne's Manor, Omnia

London Road, RG40 1ST, Wokingham, United Kingdom

Pizza • Pasta • British • Italian


"Booked online and confirmed with Hilton and by The Fork e mail. Hilton Telephoned to confirm 2 days prior to booking date to ensure we were still coming. One of my party couldn't come so I telephoned the Hilton direct the day before the booking to cancel one space which they confirmed verbally but luckily took my mobile number again. On the morning of the booking, the next day, I received a call from the manager to tell me I had no booking at all and he couldn't take a booking as they needed 24 hours notice, I booked on 25th May???? When I proved to him I had confirmation from The Fork the he said that online bookings were a different system and he had no knowledge of it????? After a little while, while he checked again, he came back to me and said I can accomodate you today When we got there the afternoon tea we were served was a cobbled affair with frozen scones defrosted so still really cold and crumble to nothing when cut making it very difficult to put jam and cream on, sandwhiches per person were filled with 1 salmon, 1 plastic cheese that you put on burgers with a little tomato and 1 ham without any pickle or mustard or anything else I could identify other than butter and 1 extra ham to fight over, all predominately white bread. 1 Scone each as I described either plain or fruit, again decide who gets which, cakes were a slice of Victoria sponge, 3 mini maccorons and 1 thin slice of meringue filled with some sort of creamish filling but not very nice. This was not the afternoon tea I had ordered and the price reflected that thank goodness but even then not worth the money. Very, Very disappointing. Had I not telephoned to cancel one place we would have turned up to find nothing in place at all. Not acceptable."