"This was our second visit and as our first was a good one decided to take our parents for Mother’s Day Sunday lunch. On arrival the restaurant was busy unlike our first so was good to see it like that, this was probably the only good thing yesterday. Were greeted and seated and handed menus, whilst looking through we were quite surprised to see just 3 starters on offer, one being soup then a fish and a beef tartare, not great if I’m honest. After about 15 minutes our drink orders were taken, the wine was quite prompt but the draft drinks seemed to take an age to arrive. Food orders were taken and the starters arrived, the soup was ok but not very warm at all, the mackerel starters were just shocking, both members of our party that ordered this said how minute it was which we could all see and it was pretty tasteless and bland, also they found it very difficult to cut the meat away from the skin as it just turned to mush, there was a very very small amount of avocado purée underneath, definitely not worth the cost as after 4 mouthfuls was finished. We all ordered the Sunday roasts of beef, lamb and pork, as mentioned we had been for Sunday lunch before and couldn’t fault it, this time however we were left in shock and embarrassed as we had told our families how good it was. The pork resembled a chop which was over cooked and the lamb and beef were quite chewy and definitely didn’t have the flavour we expected. The roast potatoes and Yorkshire were most definitely cooked the day (if not two) before and just re warmed, yes we understand this is needed on a busy Mother’s Day but they were all solid and on a couple of occasions we had food flying as it was cut into. We were all most dissatisfied and disappointed Needless to say we didn’t stay for desert. Will most certainly not be returning and would not recommend."
