Greets Inn, Warnham

We have been to this pub to eat a couple of times. On the last occasion it was for Valentine's night. We saw that it was a fixed menu but liked the look of it and booked. On arrival, both chefs were outside smoking-not a good advertisement!
The welcome was nice & friendly. We were shown to our seats & although there were 2 open fires burning, it was very draughty although I don't think it would have mattered where we sat unless it was in front of the fire & then we'd be too hot!
We both chose the salmon & crab cakes with chilli to start-very small cakes & lacked in flavour but served piping hot.
For the main we had fillet steak with langoustine tails, hand cut chips & tomatoes-the steak was so small, a mere sliver on top of chips with a few cherry tomatoes. It tasted very nice but there was not enough of it. People arriving later were served much larger portions. Another couple also complained about portion sizes.
Dessert-Toffee apple pie with vanilla pod ice cream & chocolate cup with clotted cream. The toffee apple pie was basically an apple crumble inside a shortcrust pastry case. The chocolate cup was a tea cup with a tiny portion of chocolate inside & it did not look like clotted cream.
All in all it was very poor value for money. We did tell the landlord that we were unhappy with the portion size but he just shrugged it off with a sorry. Needless to say we didn't leave a tip.
Perhaps being a bit nit picky is the speed of the courses-no time between courses, so much so that we were there an hour and a half tops.
I think that they were economising with portion size should they be packed to capacity-tables were reserved but remained empty. We won't be returning for a third time.

15 Feb 2011 20:05