The Coach, Worlds End

Great pub with delicious food. Menu is heavily biased to American style BBQ food with huge Man v Food portions (they provide takeaway boxes for leftovers). The menu has burgers, hotdogs, smoked meats and there is a specials board. The smoked brisket was tasty and there were enough chips to choke a horse. Good selection of beers, has a pool table, beer garden and smoking area. The pub and garden can be hired for BBQs. Staff are friendly and efficient.

Caters for large parties.

11 Jun 2016 16:09

The Talbot, Iwerne Minster

Excellent. Menu was varied and the food was superb. Staff were very friendly and accommodated my daughters picky requests with a smile.

I had home made chicken pie - delicious. My family was so impressed we went again a few days later.

31 Jul 2010 17:47

The Farmers Arms, Frankby

I visited this pub with my parents and my daughter for a holiday treat. I chose it based on the reviews posted, which now appear a little too complimentary. The rose tinted glasses used to describe this pub really misled me. Anyway down to my review based on my recent experience of the food and drinks.

It started badly with a request for some glasses of medium white wine only to be told they only had one wine i.e. a dry white. It was not a great wine and a pub with only one type of wine cannot score over 7/10 in a review. I thought ah well maybe a small problem with a delivery. However, the food was universally dire.

The 'Home Made' burgers sounded nice, but when I ordered them I was told they did not have time today to make them fresh, so they will be frozen. Honesty aside, can a place selling home made food really say they did not have time to make it fresh. The burgers were dry and over done.

My father ordered the fillet medallions in a red wine and onion sauce - oh dear what arrived looked like pedigree chum sitting in a watery brown gravy. Tasteless.

Next up was the chilli con carne that was so dry it was stiff and could be moulded into any shape. The mince was like sand as it had been cooked so much. Disappointing.

Finally was the Farmers Chicken (called Hunters Chicken everywhere else) which was a chicken breast smothered in cheese and BBQ sauce or so the menu stated. What arrived was a solid lump that my daughter peeled and all the cheese and sauce came off! The chicken underneath was so dry it was hard to swallow. Quite an achievement to coat a chicken in BBQ sauce and melted cheese and it is still dryer than sandpaper.

Sorry to go on, but I thought I needed to balance the reviews based on my real experience. I was looking forward to a meal with my family, but this was very poor. The surly barmaid did not help who dealt with my complaint by shrugging her shoulders.

Awful.

31 Jul 2010 17:41