by dksbbs » 13 Jul 2008 23:58
First meal in 2002 was a Turkish Casserole at Richards Place when it was in the old village, it was terrible, really greasy and it took nearly 2 hours to feed us, never went back again.
Since then 99.9% of food has been excellent, one bad experience in 2003 at the former Lion bar when we walked out after 90 minutes, we were the third or fourth table to be seated and never got fed, excuse was they were busy but others were getting fed with a 15-20 minutes of coming in, we put it down to the fact that we had been offered a free bottle of wine and the first round of drinks free (We didn't ask they were offered), I presume they were trying to make up for the freebies hoping we would drink more, we did ask the waiters on a number of occassions and even the PR guy who had tempted us in but still no food, amazingly as soon as we walked out we were caught up by three waiters and the manager saying our meal was ready, they had lost the ticket, didn't persuade us to go back though. Got to Denise Kapiza and the kids were fed in 10 minutes, the adults had lost their hunger.
Dave