The Fleur de Lys, Pilley

We visited on the 9th Mar 09 for a Sunday Dinner. In the first instance the pub looked really nice, signs up outside said Good home cooked food at reasonable prices, but very different inside. Once you are sat down we had a menu given for Sunday lunch, �16.95 2 courses and �23 for 3 courses. Not cheap considering choices for the main course are, roast beef, liver and bacon, gammon and eggs !!! So cheap food inflated price. We had 3 children with us knew we couldn�t now afford at these prices to pay for them to so we ordered the soup starters for the children and we just had the main courses. I had the beef, which was tough, and mass produced as the 2 slices I got where perfectly cut and the same thickness throughout so not hand carved, as was every other beef that came out of the kitchen, the potatoes where hard, and the vegetables over cooked and not drained, the Yorkshire pudding cold and stodgy. My husband and friend had a chicken pie, not a real pie but a tiny dish with 2 - 3 mouthfuls of filling and a uniform pie top, again served with watery vegetables. The soup the children ate was Carrot & Coriander, again this was a mass produced effort, insipid and tasteless and served with a cook from frozen roll. Now had I paid �6 for my meal I wouldn�t be upset but I paid �16.95 a huge price tag. When we came to pay the bill it had come to �74.28!!!! For 3 Adults and 3 under 4 year olds? The meals at �16.95 came to �50.85 so a whopping �23.43 was charged for our drinks, incredible considering we had 1 x coke, 2 x orange and lemonade and 3 x fruit shoots for the kids, that was it, no wine or beer, no refills just one drink with an average price of �3.90 So overall I would say be careful about eating here on a Sunday, check the drink prices carefully. I for one would not eat here again on a Sunday or any day for that matter.

9 Mar 2009 11:05