The Sun Hotel, Coniston

I have not stayed in this hotel but my wife and I had the unfortuneate experience of having meal in the restaurant on 17/08/2007.There were a few people in the restaurant when we first went in so we thought that my be a sign that we had made a good choice in picking The Sun Inn for a meal.We have had a drink here in the past after a hard day on the fells and I have found the beer very good and would recommend it but as for the restrauant that was compleatly different experience.It turned out that all the other people in the restaurant were having bar meals perhaps they knew something we didn't,the staff were very rude and unhelpful they made us feel as if we were an inconvenience and everything was to much trouble, the food was expensive because the standard was rubbish they were trying to do fancy food but the chef obviosly had not got a clue what he was doing,my wife had a goat's cheese starter that sounded very nice but when it arrived it was swimming in oil and viniger which totaly overwhelmed the taste of the goats cheeese on her main course was a appricot dumpling which she found hard to cut and chew she said she thought it had been done in a microwave which is not the standard you expect in an expensive restaurant my main course had some potatoes with it that i think were ment to be roast potatoes they tasted like frozen roast potatoes which is also not what you would expect.During the course of the meal we were never offered a drink by the offhand staff and I had to leave the table twice to queue at a very busy bar to get drinks,an elderly couple who came in after us were also having the restaurant meal I heard the gentleman ask the waiter for a glass of house wine but he was told very abruptly that they only sold wine by the bottle although i had seen people buying wine by the glass while I was at the bar the gentleman ordered a bottle of wine which the waiter then returned with and slammed down on the table as though it was to much trouble.I can't comment on the bar meals they my be very niece but if they are to the standard of the restaurant meals they won't be so if you were thinking of going to The Sun Inn for a restrauant meal do yourself a favour and don't go you will save yourself a lot of money a a big dissapointment.

26 Aug 2007 12:13