The Saddlers Arms, Ripley

As we're quite new to the area, wanted to try out this pub. Looks good on the website and a pretty from the outside. Went for dinner tonight. Big mistake.
Freshly cooked it may be, but it wasn't a chef in the kitchen, it was the lady from the bar, possibly landlady? Ordered burgers - have had better from burger van. Couldn't eat mine, husband only ate his to be polite. Not sure what meat it was, though menu said beef. Obviously frozen burgers. No onion, no imagination in arrangement of garnish . Daughter had Caesar salad - chicken part was OK, but base of salad was finely chopped iceberg lettuce soaked in caesar dressing, literally awash with it. Very poor. Would not recommend to anyone. How they have nerve to charge �7.95 for each of those meals is hard to comphrehend. Will stick with the New Inn, where they have REAL beef/steak burgers and much better value for money food with a proper chef! You have been warned.

10 Feb 2011 19:37