Food • Full • Hotels • British
"Delicious food and outstanding service. Despite ongoing suffering of the hospitality sector in this area of huge staff shortages, this place works hard to deliver outstanding food and service. The crab and scallops were fantastic and the crab curry and steak were amazing. The mini desserts are a triumph. But we couldn’t resist the cheese board first. Great homemade chutney. Food and wine were fantastic and it was lovely to see the waitress from Whitby who has worked there a long time. The new young chap is doing a great job learning the ropes. We will, as always be back when we next visit the area."
Steak • Seafood • British • Vegetarian
"Haven 't written a review for several years but this place really pushed the button so here I go. Booked this from Australia months ago based on good reviews and photos of rooms and restaurant. Luke warm welcome and showed to an over heated, airless garret at the top of the house. We had requested a quiet room but this was claustrophobic with a small double bed. Our request to move to another room was granted and we went to another king size bedded room at the front. King size in UK means queen size in most other jurisdictions. Nothing luxurious about this. No nice touches. Knackered pillows and tired old furnishings. Basic bathroom and if you don 't pull on the top of the shower door to get out you could be in there for ever. On the plus side we were not charged for our upgraded room. Place appears to be on the downhill run. No vacancy sign was up but only us and another couple in residence. This restaurant had acquired a double rosette from the AA so we were expecting something really special. Whitebait starter was good, paid extra for crab spring rolls which were pretty bland. Our main of fish pie comprised of a round pile of chopped up seafood smothered in a white sauce with a seaweed accompaniment and boiled potatoes and peas. Where was the pastry in the seafood pie? Nowhere to be seen in this totally tasteless dish. Dessert was an offering of several small sweet concoctions which you could get a selection of 5 of if you shared. Given what had come before we opted for the cheese plate which had had no intervention from the chef...the best course. Yalumba wines appear to have a share holding in this establishment as their logo and wines are everywhere. In Australia we know them for their budget boxes of cask wine but here they were shown a great deal more reverence. Only NZ and Australia featured on the red wines list. No European and no other new world wines......and this is a double rosette restaurant?? One wine by the glass and that was a Yalumba Shiraz which we passed on. Went to the pub after dinner for a glass of their house red....much nicer. In summary over priced and under delivered in everything. Pleased to move on"
