Park View, Brighton

Having passed this pub on Preston Drove and thinking it looked quite nice from the outside with a half decent menu, we looked it up online and read a few reviews here and decided to give it a go last night. First impressions when we walked in weren't too bad but that was the only high out of a lot of lows. We found the surly bar girl a turn off as she could barely raise a smile let alone anything resembling customer service. The tables were dirty and sticky and there was a really mixed clientele including some noisy chavs. Foolishly, we persisted and thought we'd at least try the food. Mistake. We ordered the venison burger thinking it would be difficult to get a fairly basic meal wrong. It turned up burnt in a crap white bun with a token bit of lettuce and tomato and some chips thrown on the plate. Terrible presentation and a less than average taste, A rip off for �8.50! When the stroppy waitress asked if our food was OK we gave her our feedback but clearly she only asked us as she's been told to as she didn't seem to give a toss that we weren't happy. Not wanting to spend any longer in there and certainly not spend any more money we paid (reluctantly) and got out of there never to return.

Nil points.

2 Nov 2008 11:39