The Beagle, Ipswich

NICE WAITER SHAME ABOUT THE MANAGER!!!
I was invited to The Beagle on Boxing day by friends for dinner and was really looking forward to it as I had been there many times before and enjoyed good food there.There was some confusion about our booking as we had pre booked and they had no record of it and the restaurant was shutting in an hour and a half ! we promised to eat quickly but the manager was not in the least bit apologetic and made us 'promise' to order quickly ! Thankfully our meal was very nice and we had excellent service to our table particulary by a waiter who has served me on a few occasions whom I find very polite and charming. He at least showed some compassion about us being hurried we had a nice chat with him it turns out he is from Turkey NOT France as we had all thought - a really nice guy and a credit to the pub. We duly paid our bill BUT the manager still came to our table and whined on about 'how he wanted to go home'! like some inpatient kid !!! we complimented our nice friendly waiter but the manager proceeded to whinge on about him which we all thought was highly unprofessional. So no points to the manager who was scruffy, bordering on rude and running down his staff who are a credit to him I found him totally charmless. I will go back to The Beagle I happen to like it there despite the childish manager because the waiting staff are great !

26 Dec 2007 22:09