To sum this pub up as a short review is easy - don't go there even if you are about to drop dead from hunger.
Ok - Now for the explanation...
My partner and I were staying at a nearby campsite (Three Cliffs - HIGHLY recommended) and decided on our first night to walk to the nearest pub for some dinner after a long drive.
On getting to the pub at 8.40pm the bar manager (I assume as she was barking at all of the other staff) very abruptly told me that I needed to queue for the bar at that I wouldn't be served just walking up to the bar (there were 2girls being served at the time and nobody else in sight!).
I politely smiled and went ans stood behind the girls who spent ages deciding whether or not they wanted a 'white wine or white wine spritser'. After waiting for a good 5min while they decided what they wanted another couple came into the bar, walked stright up and got served by another bar person and were ordered and gone well before I got a look in.
When I finally reached the front of the (oh so massive) 'que' I ordered our drinks (to which I got no acknowledgement at all) and thepicked up the menu.
When the bar manager saw me pick up the menu she very bluntly told me that I was too late for food and that they stopped serving 5min ago (bearing in mind that I had been waiting for well over 5min to be served!)
I got the distinct impression that this lady didn't want me in her pub and so my partner and I, a little dejected) decided to go outside to drink our drink, rather than sit with this lady in sight. As we left the bar manager told another staff member to "tell the girls we're stopping serving food now"
When outside we happened to see a large sign advertising that they served food until 9pm (by now it was 8.55pm) and so we decidedd to go inside and take the matter up with the bar manager. Again she was extremely rude and abrupt and told us that there was "nothing she could do about it" and that 'Technically' they were still serving food as people already eating were being bought their courses.
Not being happy with the response that we got we asked to speak to the manager and were told that she wasn't available until much later (full stop). We informed the lovely manager that we'd wait outside for the manager while we continued to drink our drinks, but shock upon shocks the manager never came.
We did get a rather timid young bar maid come out to us at 9.45pm who told us that the manager had sent her out to say that if we did want to order something we could.
We politely thanked the petrified bar girl and told her that we appreviated that she had been sent out to do the bar managers dirty work but that we'd rather go hungry than spend any more money at their pub.
Now you could put this down to one bad day with one grumpy bar manager, but from talking with other people at the campsite, including the staff there, it seems our experience wasn't an isolated one.
So, my advice - don't go there and instead go for a short drive and head for The King Arthur pub slightly down the road.
