The Boat Inn, Doncaster

We have visited the pub for meals on numerous occassion & been happy with the food, until last night. We waited about an hour from ordering to having our meal served, our started was the very complicated Mediterranean Bread (3 chunks of bread with olive oil). The next table ordered after us & were enjoying their coffee when our meal arrived. I had to request clean cutlery too as every knife on our table was filthy.
I had the Hunters chicken which was very dry, the cheese had congealed to a solid state again & the bacon was mostly fat, the chicken itself was dry but due to the fact I was hungry by this time I ate it. The peas also were dried up, the whole meal looked as if it had been sat on the warming plate for the hour we waited. My friends meals were not as they expected either, the Pork dry & the steak overcooked.
I complained to the waitress who apologised & offered me a sweet as compensation but I'd seen the dessert menu & found it very limited & not very exciting, so i declined.
To add insult to injury the young barman said "Good night Guys!" as we left, as women in our 40's we didn't appeciate this, surely he knows the difference between men & women at his age.
A real disappointing venue now.

13 Nov 2009 10:42