The Ramblers Rest, Chipstead

Something funny going on here. Used this pub only once, last summer, when treating my wife to lunch. She paid with her debit card. Checking her most recent statement we find a payment of roughly �30 dated March 7th this year. Now we've got to go to all the trouble of checking old statements to see if we've paid twice. Manager says there have been a handful of these all dated March 6th or 7th, and that it relates to a time "at least six months ago" when the tills weren't working properly, but he wasn't there then.

Sadly my recollection of the meal is that it took 45 minutes to deliver my order, at which time it was discovered that my wife's order hadn't been taken up at all. I ate my very indifferent steak while she watched, and 20 minutes later I watched her struggling with a dreadful piece of fish. We naturally decided not to return.

21 Mar 2007 15:18