The Pump House, Hotwells

WORST NEW YEAR EVER..........DO NOT GO HERE!!!!
We booked the New Years Eve Evening Last Night. It cost �5 per person to enter and the set meal was �25 per person plus a bottle of wine and 2 soft drinks came to �78. Total of �90 Spent for a meal for 2.
The first thing was that our table was next to the door, no other option available, so I spent all night with people knocking my chair every time they passed. Secondly the menu was limited to four options for each course. As a vegetarian I had only one option for the starter and the main.
We persevered and the starter came, My Carrot soup was more like carrot puree and pretty tasteless. No bread roll came with this either. My wife had the chicken ceaser salad which was OK.
The Main course continued on a downward spiral. The Lamb shank that my wife had ordered turned out to be incredibly salty and the tiny amount of mashed potato (looked like Smash) and vegetables that came with it were awful. I had the only choice of a vegetable risotto. This was about the same consistency as the soup. It contained only rice, carrots and a few small pieces of cheese, again very little portion and no taste at all.
The desert didn�t compensate for the disastrous meal either; the chocolate brownie was a dry non chocolate brownie with chocolate sauce on the plate and a small scoop of ice cream. The sticky toffee pudding whilst tasty was smaller than � a chocolate bar.
There was a Jazz band playing which in themselves were talented. However the keyboard player seemed to drown out the singer and the drummer. There was little to no atmosphere created and no attempt at fire works for midnight or and special count down, no TV, no radio nothing! The singer held her own watch to count down to the New Year.
I cannot remember a worst evening out in my life.

1 Jan 2008 14:58