The Crab and Lobster, Bembridge

Outside appearance of pub was scruffy, lawn uncut, shabby fence spoiling what should have been beautiful views out to sea. Changed hands? Pub is now pink!

Our party ordered prawn jacket, cheese & coleslaw jacket, crab & prawn salad, ham egg and chips (requested eggs to be broken and cooked well).
Waited approx 40 mins for food to be served. Not offered any dressing for salad, brown and red sauce along with dirty cutlery already on table in a container.
Eggs were runny, not cooked as requested. Chips greasy - undercooked over fried.
Jackets OK but way too much greenery. Menu should have read "SALAD and Jacket".
Crab & prawn salad (�17-95) was terrible. Sauce for prawns arrived in paper cup, over enthusiastic green salad badly needed dressing, unripe tomatoes. Red crab meat was mushy, unseasoned. White crab meat contained plenty of shell. Supposed to be served with bread, came with 4 small rings of baguette with DIY portions of semi melted butter. Has put me off eating seafood for a long time to come. Not at all good value for money, AVOID!!

16 May 2011 21:25