The Bell, Buckland Dinham

Stopped of here for lunch with my Wife & Mother after visiting the Daffodil Fair at Mells. My Mother ordered the Steak & Kidney pie with veg and had no complaints. However my wife & I only wanted a light lunch & ordered the jacket potato topped with bacon & brie, & after a long wait, that's exactly what we got. We were expecting to get a piping hot jacket potato topped with lashings of Crispy grilled bacon & melted brie. What we got in reality was a barely warm potato, with a few pieces of flaccid bacon which appeared to be boiled & three thumbnail sized pieces of cold brie straight out the fridge along with a salad that consisted of a few salad leaves & bits of chopped tomato with no dressing. The potato was so cold that I could even get a knob of butter to melt on it. We asked the waitress if it could be put under a grill to warm it up & melt & brown the cheese. It came back about a minute later, steaming hot & clearly microwaved. To add insult to injury the cost of 2 jacket potatoes & one pint of beer was nearly �18. I left feeling not just totally dissapointed, but thoroughly ripped off. Definately not reccomended.

9 Apr 2012 16:17

The Rose and Crown, Limpley Stoke

After having had good meals at the Rose & Crown in the past, I'm sad to say that the meal we had there last night was awfull. We were told there would be a 10-15 minute wait. Actual wait 1hour 20 minutes. My tiny Gammon steak was totally hidden beneath two fried eggs & mushrooms that appeared to have been deep fried & were oozeing with oil. The gammon steak also appeared to have been deep fried in oil & the rind, that should have been nice and crispy was like a lump of oily rubber. The side dishes of chips & peas arrived about 5 minutes after the mains course by which time the Gammon & eggs had congealed into a cold greasy lump. Not reccomended. Rant over.....

27 Mar 2011 10:11