The Green Cross Inn, Goudhurst

The pub had been recommended to me as a good place to eat in the area. I drove from London to visit it and then onto Sissinghurst. The menu was tempting though there were too many dishes which should have warned me.
My guest and I ordered potted shrimp to start which were good though the bread was over toasted. Our mains were appalling - the barbeque ribs had no sauce on them (it was on the side and cold) the ribs themselves smelled very odd and were inedible. My steak pie which freshly cooked veg where do I start. The vegs were pre cooked and heated up and very limp no butter on them to help either, the pie was not a pie obviously the meat had been re heated as there was a film over the sauce and the pastry was like nothing I have ever eaten and I would never wish to meet again! It was a hard dark brown three millimetre thin biscuit and impossible to eat.
With great reluctance and worry we returned the dishes to the waitress it was inedible, a minute later a very aggressive man approached us and harangued us causing extreme distress and embarrassment - he insisted he had eaten the food and there was nothing wrong with it. Whatever happened to the maxim the customer is always right. An awful meal an appalling man and a dining experience I never wish to experience again! APPALLING!!

21 May 2011 16:12