The Tapestry, Mortlake

We went for Sunday lunch - we were the only people in there at 1pm (although it was a BH weekend). My wife asked for cider and was brought IPA by a waitress who insisted IPA was a cider. We sent this back and, because the only actual cider available was the dreaded Bulmers (the range of beer and cider was poor, at least on tap), ordered a white wine spritzer. This also went undrunk because it tasted like anti-freeze: it was either corked, old or ultra-cheap wine. The waitress giggled when we told her and didn't offer to replace it (admittedly we should have insisted). To eat, we had some small olives swimming in lemony oil, some bread which was clearly supermarket baguette warmed up, and then the tapas. Our waitress said the portions were small but, for tapas, they were huge, meaning we overordered. Everything we got was greasy and tasteless. We got the bill and found they'd tried to charge us for the IPA! Overall: a disaster, in terms of food, drink and service. Mortlake doesn't have many good pubs to eat in so it's well worth the trip to the Botanist in Kew, the Sun in Barnes or the Victoria in Sheen.

24 Aug 2008 19:22