The Kings Arms, Sandford on Thames

One day, the sun decided to come out, and as I'd been to The Kings Arms before for dinner and drinks on a normal weather day, I thought it would be a lovely place to go on a beautiful sunny day as they have an outdoor seating area right next to the river. How wrong I was!
Ok so, as expected, the outdoor area was completely full - I can't argue with that. There was still grass areas where you could sit on the ground so me and my boyfriend decided to get a drink and sit on the grass. As we went to get a drink, we joined a queue which was going from the bar, to OUTSIDE the pub! So, all in all, we had to wait 15-20 minutes, just to get a drink. Surely the owner of any pub knows that when the nice weather comes up, the amount of customers will increase?! Then, we had our drinks and thought it was about time we ordered some food. Again, BACK in the queue. After another 20 minutes waiting in the queue, we got to the front to order food (bear in mind that it's usually waiter service, but I'll let them off as it was a busy day), they said that it'll be an hour and a half wait! Ridiculous!
Also, would like to note that while having drinks, we noticed a lot of the other people around us getting very angry as they hadn't received their food yet.

So basically, it's a really nice place, but they obviously can't handle busy days very well at all. I'll stick to going there on a rainy day when I know I'll get good service!

24 May 2012 11:45