The Park Lodge Hotel, Teddington

Visited the Restaurant a few months ago and apart from the vaguely unattentive waiting staff, was pleasantly surprised by the food and wine quality and the elegance of the room itself.
For this reason, when friends from out of the area visited this Sunday I recommended that we lunch at the attached bar.
Embarassingly rude and unattentive bar staff (when they were in evidence at all!), bland, tasteless and quite expensive food (especially the '�10.50 for one' large overcooked prawn) from the bar menu (and half an hour after deciding not to finish our meals we had to move to another table to get away from the congealing food still left sitting in front of us. This was on a very quiet Sunday afternoon, so one has to wonder what it would have been like at a more busy time.
Take my advice, walk 5 mins in almost any direction and you shall find much better fare and service.

26 Apr 2007 11:25