The Red Lion, Thurgarton

Eat here at your peril, the pub sells itself on 16th century charm but is nothing more than an outdated Berni inn serving simple pub food that is simply rubbish. We ate here on Wednesday 28th May 2008 and found the food overpriced and simply a combination of content from the freezer, deep fat fryer and the packet, there was no welcome and very little thank you. I had a starter of supossed butterflied prawn which turned out to be nothing short of 4, yes 4 minute deep frid prawns, I am not sure if the chef ??? would know a butterflied prawn if it bit him. This was followed by fillet steak which was the only fresh cooked item on the plate.

My partner took the tempting mushrooms with refreshing garlic dip !!!!!, the mushroons were simply deep fried frozen rubbish with half a jar of cheap tacky garlic sauce followed by a supposed steak and ale pie topped with cheese ( strange, I know), this turned out to be just a pre prepped microwaved dish of slop with cheddar cheese again just microwaved to puree on top thus swimming in grease from the cheese which was a complete overkill.

All accompanying veg, fries, onion rings etc were simply rubbish deep fried frozen junk. The final insult was asking for a pepper sauce to acompany my beef and was told it may well take a while to make which I accepted, however, it came in a flash and yet again was simply packeted powder mix which has probably never seen a black peppercorn it its life and they had the ordasity to charge an extra �2.75 for it.

No atmosphere, no smiles, not character, NO GOOD.

30 May 2008 18:29