The Lion, Farningham - pub details
Address: High St, Farningham, Dartford, Kent, DA4 0DP [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 26437) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Eynsford (1.6 miles), Farningham Road (1.6 miles), Swanley (2.5 miles)
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> Current user rating: 3.7/10 (rated by 31 users)
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| Had dinner at this pub this evening (a Tuesday) in the beer garden by the stream. Very nice location, friendly service. Food was delivered quickly and quite good quality. It has to be said that the pub was not very busy at this time. We had starters and mains, although the portions would have allowed a third course as well. That could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what you expect from pub food. raouul - 7 Jun 2011 22:21 |
| Disasterous! We booked a table for seven (two adults, five young children) after being advised that we were unable to book a table outside. When we arrived on time the waitress advised us that our waiter hadn't arrived so we could either sit at the table or in the bar. The restaurant was empty, dark and cold so we chose the bar and innocently waited in the bar with drinks unaware that in the meantime all the people arriving outside were ordering their food ahead of us. When the waiter eventually arrived 15 minutes after our booking time and we were shown to the table people were queing five deep at the bar to place orders. We placed our order (restaurant empty apart from our table of two with five children - keen to order and get out to enjoy the sun after the meal). The waitress took our order and reappeared 20 minutes later to tell us that we'd have a half hour wait for food. A few minutes later she reappeared to tell us that actually the wait would be an hour. When my husband expressed his concern the reply was immediately confrontational 'there's no difference between booking a table inside or ordering outside'. Eventually they reluctantly agreed to push our order up the list a bit. I explained to the waitress that there was a flaw with their system as they had left us waiting while we could have been ordering and while I was speaking she was trying desperately to interrupt me and I had to ask her politely to let me speak. She did finally let me explain that I was trying to make them aware there was a flaw for future customers. There was a grunt of acknowledgment and a sullen retreat. No apology. The woman who had been initally friendly was hostile and unnapproachable. We reconvened at the table but decided that the experience had been such a huge disappointment that we wanted to leave. Instead we went to Sidcup Place and had a lovely meal with a really sweet waitress who would bring in far more business at The Lion than the brutish woman who we had to contend with! Not at all impressed!!!! This place needs some serious customer communication training. We would have been perfectly happy if they had been apologetic rather than hostile. I think that we must have had the same waitress as MellyB! loupo - 10 Apr 2011 20:20 |
| Just returned from the Lion, Farningham. What an abysmal sham! Booked on-line, no problem with that. Turned up 15 minutes early, were ignored for 5 minutes standing at the door. Asked waitress who said that she didn't know but she was "right on it"!! Eventually sat at a table right next to extractor fan(it was freezing) and sign saying reserved for Fisher @ 13:30!! It was 18:30. Sat there for ten minutes with no drink, no menu!!!! Eventually asked if we wanted a drink....this came 10 minutes later......and we sat there.....and we sat there...lots of staff....all ignoring us......saw the chap who showed us to table ask anther waitress to take our order....we ordered Tomato soup (with a twist) had cheese in it.....Chicken and onion rings for my 10 year old. Started turned up after about 20 minutes......Soup was white! (turned out to be vegetable.... Chicken was yummy and no onion rings......asked for onion rings..... they turned up about 10 minutes later.... explained the soup to waitress and she said "see what happens if I don't take the order....and we waited and we waited and had our plates cleared and my partner and daughter went to the bathroom and we waited my partner then went to get drinks as we had all run out by now....and we waited...and we waited.... and waitress said ...not long now folks and we waited and we waited and my daughter got fidgety ....and we waited and then it came!!!! Wow.........not!!!! Steak like leather...chips..burnt....no mushrooms as offered by the waitress......Roast dinner had two burnt roast potatoes, broccoli with no tree.....chewy beef that was chewy! Hard yorkshire pudding...scampi and chips....hard.......... Waitress asked if all ok...and we explained not really.......she came back and manager said for us to only pay for drinks...I explained one lot of drinks paid for at the bar and waitress was quite uppity and said "I don't care!" that's what the manager said!!! We offered to pay for starters as they, eventually were acceptable although not as we ordered...but were told again it was as the manager had said.......what a shambles....won't be going there again!! In summary...potential but, get rid of waiting staff and train the chefs to cook!! Sorry but true MellyB - 6 Mar 2011 21:14 |
| In response to the ignorant comment posted by 'Ebels' on 1st September, I think the comment posted by 'Jackie01' was completely justified. If the pub had been run properly, the staff should have made provisions for the size of party attending.......otherwise they should not have taken the booking in the first place. The Lion is clearly suffering if you look at the other comment too...I would have been tempted to walk out and not pay the bill if a party I went there for had been ruined and the staff didnt seem to care!!! Eleanor82 - 27 Sep 2010 13:28 |
| Went to this pub for a meal for my dads 80th Birthday, there was about 18 of us, we had booked in advance and asked to place our food orders in advance as we was a big group which we did no problem. Table was booked for 6.45 pm we all arrived and got our starters at 9pm which were all terrable, prawn cocktail with loads of lettace but about 6 small prawns, a scollops starter that was all rice, so 2 hours of waiting pre orded food and not even worth waiting for, But it was a Birthday after all so waited for our mains that was even worse, all the veg was cold, chips looked like lunch time warm ups, meals all served with chips no matter what menu said, no mushrooms with steaks as per menu, no steak sauces arrived, nothing was done about any of the complaints, the waiter said ITS NOT MY FAULT so told him to get the cheff or the manager to come out, a young man came after a while and a lot of upset and said he was the manager, he just nodded at the complaints and did'nt really have anything to say. So we walked out and did'nt pay and he also nodded and agreed with this. Would never go here again and would'nt advise anyone else to go here, ruinned my dads 80th birthday. Jackie01 - 28 Aug 2010 16:46 |
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