Rose Revived Inn, Newbridgeback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
The reviews below sound dreadful. Here is what I experienced - two pints of Mauldons (another Suffolk Brewery) with first being served at 10.30am...fair play. Beer garden very nice as were the bar staff pleasant enough tho did feel undercurrent of anti-walker animosity in landlord who patrolled the pub like something out of 30's Germany. 6/10 +1 for serving before 11am.
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This pub is set in a lovely location. It has some great deals (2 meals for �9.95 etc). It can, I we found out today, get rather packed so book a table (do not do I we did and try The Maybush across the bridge because it was truly awful).
The willow trees outside and the ivy covered building are straight off the front of a chocolate box.
The food is usually pretty good but there have been some disappointments.
Breakfast is a completely different matter. They offer a �7.50 buffet and the hot stuff is lovely (scrambled eggs, eggs benedict etc) but twice we have found out of date produce in the cold section (one out of date flapjack and one green and mouldy chocolate muffin). Check your dates folks.
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The place has sold it soul years ago
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It will do my reputation no good at all, voluntarily visiting a Greene King pub. This one, for all its artificial ambience was actually better than expected on Sunday lunchtime. The carvery was served by a young chef who was slow but served decent portions so pick your time to avoid the queue. The beef and the turkey were very tender. The meat was accompanied by a reasonable selection of well cooked vegetables. I am not a fan of Abbot or Speckled Hen but these were also in good condition even if the bar service was a tad slow. The sighting of a water vole running across the patio completed an enjoyable visit.
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Visited this pub/restaurant a couple of times. The first occasion, my lamb was cold in the middle only defosted not acctually cooked??!! This was replaced with a well microwaved one, but my partner had already finished his meal, so the atmospher was lost.
The second time we waited over an hour for our starter and it was only because we approached the waitress about our order (after noting other diners being served before us)that we were served our food I think we would still be waiting now.....Although the food was much better this time and we did receive our starter free of charge when we complained on paying the bill. Not sure whether to give it another try third time lucky?????
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I have known this pretty Thames-side pub for many years. Today, only a few locals remember that The Rose Revived is where the now internationally famous Chef �Raymond Blanc� started his career, initially as a trainee waiter.
Sad to say that today, as a Greene King controlled �Flagship� outlet, The Rose Revived food is at best described only as merely adequate, the atmosphere is plastic and stilted, the Management team seems to me to be made up of career driven and politically correct children. In fact, it is all very sad indeed.
If you like to visit a tourist trap, eat bland and unexciting, common or garden, steak and chips that has been made to sound trendy by the corporate marketing department by the addition of a re-heated �celeriac jus� or similar bollocks, then this place is for you.
Featuring a massive tarmac car park, a few �environmentally friendly� rip off electric punts/boats for hire at 20 quid the hour, ruined by wet behind the ears Corporate Marketing Executives fresh out of University still capable of getting pissed on five wine drops, today this is a tragedy of a formerly famous and still potentially fantastic country inn that stands next to the 2nd oldest bridge across the River Thames.
Oh yes, and the extremely bright floodlight that is intended to light the pretty weeping willow tree is actually an extreme and very real danger to after dark motorists crossing the bridge � it shines right into your eyes and you can see nothing whatsoever.
My advice and heart felt plea to Greene King Breweries is, please, please, and pretty please, sell it on to someone like Raymond Blanc who at least knows and cares how to run a decent quality food led, riverside outlet. This wonderful property The Rose Revived at Newbridge deserves no less than to urgently be entirely revived.
Yours very truly,
Frankie Lee-Darling
anonymous - 30 May 2007 20:11 |
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