The Carpenters Arms, Appleford

Visited the Carpenters Arms on Wednesday 12th Dec 07, on first walking in, the pub was inviting and warm on a chilly night. We had booked so was told where our table was and sat down, looking at the menu we was a bit disappointed with the selection, I had heard great praise for the pub, we decided on the battered mushrooms & avacardo parwn salad for starters, the prawn salad was ok bit over powered by the thousand island dressing, the battered mushrooms were like bullets and trying to cut them or even spear them was difficult without them shooting across the table. We then order fillet of sirloin steak one in peppered sauce, both were to be medium rare, they arrived again disappointing, the steaks were medium to well done and the one with the peppered sauce was learning to swim as there was so much sauce on the plate!! the vegetables were also tasteless!!! overall appearance on the pub rates a 10, food rates a 2!!! we wont be going back again!!

14 Dec 2007 09:26