Hanora Cronin
14/04/2024
Popped in here last night for dinner. I got the roast beef special with roast potatoes, veg, Yorkshire pudding and gravy and we shared a portion of onion rings. We had to flag a waitress down after 15mins to order drinks and food.
Drinks and food then came out pretty quickly, the waitress handed me my hot plate reaching over the table, I'm not sure why she didn't just take 5 seconds and pop around the other side and put it down but anyways... on to the food!
The onions rings were good, nice and crunchy with a light batter. The roast beef special was a little bit on the stingy side. I have included photos.
On the plate was a sprinkling of peas, one lump of roasted pumpkin/squash. 2 half roasted potatoes, 3 slivers of carrot and 2 pieces of basically raw and extremely hard broccoli. Of course, there was also the beef, which was actually a proper serve and it was very tender and tasty. I really enjoyed the gravy too, it was a bit watery but full of flavour.
The issue here is, that looking at the ratio of meat to sides, I had all of the veg gone and still had half of the meat left. There simply wasn't enough veg and potatoes for this roast meal, it was far too stingy, I could count the amount of peas on the plate! Just counted them there - 23 peas with my roast dinner! 2 small half roast potatoes and no mash. I presumed it would come with mash because what self respecting restaurant doesn't serve mash with a roast dinner?
But, to be honest, I'm really here to talk about the abomination on the plate they are apparently calling a Yorkshire pudding. Can't find it? I'll give you a clue - it's that small pale round thing next to the 2 roast potatoes. It was tiny, completely flat and tasted like a dry cracker. I'm hoping these were bought in frozen because if they were homemade, then there's a SERIOUS problem in the kitchen. It's not hard to whip them up, even I can make decent ones very easily and I'm no chef.
If you're going to advertise that the roast dinner comes with a Yorkshire pudding, then there would damn better be an actual one on the plate! Otherwise, take it off the menu because this was an embarrassment. Hang your chef whites up in shame, chef. I wouldn't be proud to put my name to this plate of food.
Won't be back.