点评:Planning well in advance, I called the restaurant and booked a window table for the 17th November meeting. It was to be a special 80th birthday celebration for two lady identical twins and we arrived on the day with high expectation.
Sadly, the day turned out to be a farce with astonishingly poor service and value from this otherwise idyllic location. We arrived to be ushered to table one, two rows away from the windows, in line with a door which was continually being opened and not shut by other racegoers, result? we spent the entire meal cold with our coats on. Being the furthest away from the kitchen, our table appeared to be served last for every course; remember this was to be a "special" celebratory lunch........Having asked for bread several times, rolls, very hard inedible rolls eventually arrived; followed by our first course some 30 minutes later.........racing underway, door opening and not closing, our party of four getting colder and colder. Our main course arrived 80 minutes after our starter, we were the last but one table to be served................Yorkshire pudding rock hard, Vegetables barely cooked, the whole meal just got worse.....to cap it all, cold inedible crumble desert finished off one of the worst meals any of us have ever experienced.
In fairness, the house manager tried her best to compensate, waving the cost of a bottle of wine and two beers. BUT it was supposed to be a special event at a quality location on an occasion that cannot not be repeated. Our waitress, Sophie did her best to manage the situation, but it was clear that the kitchen was either overwhelmed or was happy to deliver sub standard service and food quality, we will never know; Certainly we will not return.
翻译:我提前做好了计划,打电话给餐厅,为 11 月 17 日的聚会预订了一张靠窗的桌子。这是为两位同卵双胞胎女士举办的特别的 80 岁生日庆祝活动,我们满怀期待地到达了那天。
遗憾的是,这一天变成了一场闹剧,这个原本田园诗般的地方提供的服务和价值都出奇地差。我们到达时被领到离窗户两排远的一号桌,排队等候的门不断被其他赛马观众打开,却没有关上,结果呢?我们穿着外套,整个用餐过程都很冷。由于离厨房最远,我们的桌子似乎是每道菜最后上桌的;记住,这是一顿“特别”的庆祝午餐……我们多次要面包、面包卷,最后终于端上了非常硬的、不能吃的面包卷;大约 30 分钟后,我们的第一道菜上来了……比赛正在进行,门开了又关不上,我们四人越来越冷。我们的主菜在开胃菜之后 80 分钟才上,我们是倒数第二桌的客人......约克郡布丁硬得像石头一样,蔬菜几乎没煮熟,整顿饭变得更糟了......最糟糕的是,冰冷的、无法食用的碎屑甜点结束了我们吃过的最糟糕的一顿饭。
公平地说,管家尽了最大的努力来弥补,免除了一瓶葡萄酒和两瓶啤酒的费用。但这应该是一场特殊的活动,在一个优质的场所,在一个不能重复的场合。我们的女服务员索菲尽了最大的努力来处理这种情况,但很明显,厨房要么不堪重负,要么乐于提供低于标准的服务和食品质量,我们永远不会知道;我们肯定不会再来了。