The Blue Ball, Walton On The Hill

Food was o.k. (certainly couldn't complain about the portion sizes).
�90.00 for a meal for 5 inc drinks is about the right level for a food serving pub. What, however, was not acceptable was the insidious practice of assuming that we would leave a tip. Having paid �100 for a �90 bill we were expecting to get �10 change (which I would then have left as a tip). Since I had to prompt one of the serving staff for the change, rather than leave it a s a tip I took great pleasure in putting it the RNLI collection box on the bar while the staff looked on.

10 Sep 2007 07:26

The Woodman, Woodmansterne

The Woodman, part of the Mitchells and Butlers group, is a pub with massive potential but desparately fails to meet the mark. Recent changes seem only to have made matters worse and have pushed it into a league below a "Little Chef". Come M&B you can do better than this.

29 Aug 2007 05:50