The Noahs Ark Inn, Lurgashall

I read the rave reviews of this pub so decided to look for myself. Well what a diasppointment! Yes the village is very idilic, but it is spoiled by the cars parked allround the front of the pub - if your idea of a nice summer beer outside involves looking at a huge number of cars and the related "no parking here" ( cause you are ruining the place) signs, then you will have a great time. The rest of us who actually want to get away from that - well this is a real dissapointment.

I was equally disappointed when I got inside, and got some food. It is lack lustre and expensive. Almost �40 for two glasses of wine and two burgers and the burgers were not exceptional. Pretty poor actually wtih a handful of what looked like fat frozen chips.

Despite having a small toddler less than 2 yrs old, we were not offerd a high chair - I didn't see any in the place at all.

Staff were OK, not particularily friendly, landlord & land lady pretty stand off-ish.

Next time I tried to get in, they had a function. So much for being a local village pub, forget it - this is an up-its-self restaurant. there is not even a dart board!

Very disappointed indeed.

22 May 2010 18:58