The Spotted Dog, Penshurst

We visited The Spotted Dog last Sunday and ordered mussels and the Roast Beef - described as Hereford Loin. Mussels were excellent but the beef was a big disappointment - can't think why we did not send it back and change it for something else. We should have done so as the beef was tasteless, the side vegetables had no flavour and the plate was swamped in a heavy, over marmited? flavour. As you can get a quite decent Sunday lunch roast beef at most pubs for �7 we really expected something special for �12. Whate we had was very poor quality. I appreciate that we were late in the day, 3pm, but this was well within their food serving times, if it was too late for good beef we should have been told. Before ordering the lunch we had booked for an evening meal in a couple of weeks time but not sure now whether to risk it. It's not cheap!

25 Jul 2006 15:42