Hedgehog Inn, Copthorne

Visited this pub on 15/01/2010, arriving at 19:45 with two friends. When we arrived the pub was relatively quiet.

Disappointingly I did not read the reviews of this pub that have previously been logged on this website. Even more disappointingly the pub managed to live up to all the reviews that have been posted.

It took twenty minutes from being seated until our order was taken, with two tables that were seated after us having their orders taken before us. We ordered;

Fisherman's Pie - I have yet to meet a fisherman who uses instant mashed potatoes to top their pie, but this hasn't stopped the Hedgehog with this culinary revolution. Clearly hadn't been freshly prepared, and you're likely to find more fish in the rivers around chenobyl than were in this pie - but both had similar, nuclear qualities.

Butternut squash risotto - despite taking 30 minutes to prepare, and even I can knock together a reasonable risotto in 30 minutes, what was served had more in common with rice pudding than risotto.

Gammon: Mediocre, would have made a good frisbee though - if necessary.

Duck (off the specials board): The vegetables served with the duck had been morphed together - quiet an achievement to make a brussel sprout taste like red cabbage. My wife described the duck as average.

Following our main meal it took 20 minutes to clear the dirty crockery, at which point we were given the desserts menu. After waiting 20 minutes for someone to take our dessert order we gave up and left.

Summary - Food is woefully poor but, not to be outdone, the service is shockingly poor.

15 Jan 2011 22:28