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It would just be nice, once in a while, to go to a pub that doesn't make me seethe with anger and disappointment.
Username: Mrs_Rogue_Diner
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Mrs_Rogue_Diner has been registered on this site since 13th August 2006
The Plume Of Feathers, Tewin
The summer day I went to the Plume of Feathers at Tewin it was unseasonally cold and rainy. I could see the garden and view was very pleasant and would have been stunning on a sunny day. The garden is presumably why people keep going to this pub � if you�re just looking for a pint in the country then the Plume of Feathers MAY be alright. Having said that I can�t speak for the beer because I didn�t try it.
I CAN speak for the food and service we received on a Saturday lunchtime and it was awful. Really, really, really depressingly awful.
We arrived before the lunch time service had begun, eg before 12.30pm and were pretty much ignored by the staff. After 12.30pm we received some attention � what I would call the bare minimum necessary to get us in, take our food orders, feed us, take our money and get us out again! All done with little courteousness.
Unfortunately the food was not good at all. The Plume of Feathers is NO GASTROPUB. There was nothing classic or classy here, it was just �pub grub� with inflated prices. My friend�s duck salad contained very little duck but lots of raw onion � I�m not sure who said duck meat goes with raw onion but it doesn't. My pasta was overdone and overcooked; lots of things had been thrown in, in an attempt to make it interesting. However, the dish just became a plate of stodge. Edible but uninspiring and without joy. My other friend had a sausage sandwich but couldn�t eat any of it. A main course of roast lamb was again, edible, but nothing special.
We were sitting near the kitchen and I�m afraid there were several flies buzzing around our table as we eat. Our waitress crashed around with a huge bunch of keys hanging from her trousers. Personally it made me a feel a bit like I was being served by a trainee prison warder. At the very least a big jangling bunch of keys makes you think of the cellar, locking the doors, keys to the till, staff lockers � whatever � surely it would be better to leave them somewhere else when waiting staff are serving customers?
�Walrus�� review (below) is from 2005 � perhaps the Plume of Feathers has changed hands since then. I can�t agree with anything he/she wrote.
14 Aug 2006 10:22