The Halfway House, Box

I visited the Halfway House last Sunday, with friends - 4 adults and 3 children under 3 years of age. It took a while to be seated and then to order as the staff seemed to disappear upstairs and when ordering I specifically asked whether the childrens meals could possibly be hurried upa a little as they were v hungry and getting fractious. The young waiter said, " I'll see what I can do".
An hour later, food still hadnt appeared and by now we were almost beyond hunger. When the food did eventually arrive, only the adults meals were served and we had to chase them for the childrens meals!
Another gripe was the apparent serving of the roast dinners , which were from a trolley which was forever going up and down in the lift and one of the staff told me that this was a problem for them in serving food promptly..
All in all I was disapppointed with our visit, the food was good but took far too long to arrive and the staff, whilst friendly, seemed to be wandering around aimlessly with clearly no strong leadership!! I won't be rushing back.

16 Nov 2010 15:19

The Lamb Inn, Nomansland

Terrible service, very rude landlord, will not be visiting again, ever.
We arrived with young chidren, our friends ordered food and were told we had 10 minutes to order before service closed. We went to order within the 10 minutes only for the landlord to shout at us in a loud tone, " I'm not serving you, these people can have their food but not you!" Truly unbelievable.
I've been meaning to post this comment since this experience last summer and I'm pleased that I have done so at last.
If you have children, do not use this pub, they do not deserve your custom.
We had been on a camping weekend at the Red Shoot Camping park in Linwood the weekend we visited the Lamb, and I strongly advise anyone reading this to visit the Red Shoot Pub which is only a 10 minute drive from Nomansland, where you will find all the staff extremely welcoming, home brewed beer , great service, good food and all served with a smile! What a contrast.
I feel so much better for righting this review, I do hope it is published.

16 Jul 2010 15:58