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The Cavendish Rooms, Chatsworth House

The Cavendish Rooms, Chatsworth House

Baslow, DE45 1PP, Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom

Wine • Meat • British • Seafood


"Attention to detail makes all the difference and sadly The Cavendish food frequently finds itself lacking. We ate in the Garden Room which is lovely. We ordered two main courses: Superfood Salad with nuts and seeds (only there were no nuts nor seeds on the dish) and the Fish of the Day which was a lemon sole with new potatoes and a watercress 'salad '. The fish was very nice (on the bone as I like it) but the watercress was at best a garnish ie very very little of it and it was the micro watercress, which was fine had there been enough of it to constitute a 'salad '! Add to that that it was yellow. I sent it back and an even smaller garnish appeared after some time. They had clearly picked out a few greenish leaves from the residue and the waitress confirmed that they had thrown the rest of the micro-watercress away in the kitchen because it was past its sell-by. But it should never have been served in the first instance and it certainly should be renamed as a 'garnish '. The dish was totally unbalanced: it was protein (fish) and carbs (potatoes) , no green veg and certainly not a 'salad '. When we pointed out that the Superfood salad was missing two key ingredients, the waitress returned with a half ramekin of a mush of seeds. It was difficult to see if there were any nuts in there but if there were, they had been whizzed to a grain. The worst thing was, it was sweet!!!! It was as if it had been prepped to go alongside the muesli at breakfast! We love the place but the food generally lets it down. What a shame."

The Crabtree

The Crabtree

60 Rainville Road, London, United Kingdom

Full • Wine • Pubs • Ice Cream


"Good morning. we came to dinner on Saturday night. table for 5 booked at 8 o'clock. we came at 8.05 to say that our table was ready, and the people were sitting in it. we were then sent into the bar to get a drink while we waited for our table. we have. at which point we were not served. a gentleman at the bar came to us and asked us if we were served and we said we were not waiting. he then went away, instead of serving us to go and serving someone else saw someone he knew being a cucumber. another lady (possibly the manager) came and asked us if we were served. we have said no again and said that we are still waiting. she said we were standing the "wrong side of the sign". barservice was so, not so. We answered and said that we were sent from her colleagues to the bar, because our table was not ready. she was badly tempered and made us clear the problem. then she continued to serve our drinks. but instead of serving them, let us pour our own drinks out of the bottles for our big tom gin and tonic etc. it is not a great service and not the one to treat their customers, especially because we were first sent to the bar. it was not our fault that our table was not ready because they had given it to some other people, and we do not expect that we are treated by a badly temperatured employee when 5 of us have eaten there and their service is added to the final bill. please let me know how they will be correct. we had a good meal at the end, it was just a scandal, how everything started and this part needs something work."