An enjoyable experience at the Horns Inn Garstang last night. A very pleasant looking pub that was immaculate. The food was good, portions large and therefore great value. Lots of promotions running.
Pauline
This restaurant pub serves Foie Gras so I will not be patronising them again. Have they no idea of the cruelty involved in producing Foie Gras????
Michael Dearnley
My wife and I had been at a garden centre and decided to have a late Saturday lunch. We might ordinarily have gone to the Punchbowl but decided to try the Horns Inn as we hadn't been for years. What a mistake! The staff had suspended the normal Saturday lunch menu and had a shorter but far more expensive menu from which to choose - not for what we wanted but I guess as there was a festival going on in the village they had seen the chance to make a few pounds extra by getting additional punters to buy into a menu different from that advertised on the website. Nothing went well, my wife's risotto was heavy and accompanied by what looked like slabs of Tesco Value garlic bread and which tasted like cardboard. The taste of my sausage and mash was OK but it was just a taste as portions were awful and not even enlivened by a vegetable. Paying over the top for substandard fare isn't the way forward. However, I certainly won't be going back there so problem solved. Oh! When staff training comes around ensure that you don't only tell your staff to ask if the meal is alright on a regular basis but tell them that they should actually want to hear the answer and when they do hear that people haven't had a great dining experience to do something more constructive than 'Oh, sorry to hear that!'
Mandy
After a lovely weekend away with my friend we stopped on the way home for our evening meal , as it had been some time since my last visit I was excited to see the new refurbishments.The decor 'Beautiful and inspiring, with gentle, calming music and atmosphere, Food disappointingly and embarrassingly terrible....with high expectations reflected in prices I didn't know where to look when my friends 12oz Gammon steak with trimmings arrived ! Pinapple- tinned, Egg-uncooked, Chips-Scrag ends all of different colours which tells you only one thing ! there's none left !! Peas-frozen, portion sized in a butter dish ! Gammon- Fatty and tough.I brought my concerns to the young, student type waitress who simply said 'sorry' who then sent another waitress to tell us that she was replacing the chips with a large portion of skinny fries, as predicted ! they had RUN......out of CHIPS !!!! to our disbelief when the new offering arrived they had simply taken half of the scrag end away and placed a Few !!!! skinny chips on top !!!!!OMG !!!! Thankfully my prawn cocktail was simply just OK , but then again where can this go wrong !!!P.S Dont have the onion rings-oozing grease !Sorry 'Horns Inn' you've a long way to go !!
Frank Mc Dermott
Went with 2 friends this week; we all had excellent food; Too bad there was a power outage in mid-afternnon inwhich no one could get coffee or anything hot for that matter!! This will certainly not detract us from returning real soon'FRANK
Pb
Visited the new refurbished pub today for lunch, using 25 off voucher from the Facebook page. Lovely pub, decor smart nd modern with a country feel. Glasses weren't sparkling clean which is odd for this type of place. Food was delicious we had black pudding and pâté starters, chicken stuffed with salmon and fish n chips, followed by STP. With drinks £36 before voucher discount. Staff good but the processes are letting them down, a lot of food wandering around looking for its owners. This kind of place and these prices should be table service. We had good service when all around we're suffering poor service and long waits for meals. We'll go back , was glad we went early. Don't be put off try for yourselves.
Ellyl
We visited this lovely village pub for a Sunday evening meal after driving down the Blackpool Illuminations.
We were made to feel very welcome by the staff and were greeted not only by warmth and atmosphere but also smiles :)
I started my meal with the Chilli and BBQ Chicken wings which I can say were a brilliant twist to the regular BBQ Wings found in most other pubs, there were 6 large wings with plenty of meat on them and dressed with a fresh and crisp salad garnish. My husband started with the Homemade Garlic Mushrooms - again excellent presentation and very tasty indeed (i did pinch a few!)
For our main meals I chose the Traditional Sunday Roast Pork served with a huge bowl of fresh vegetables cooked perfectly (not soggy!), 3 massive roast potatoes, new potatoes and a yorkshire pudding, not forgetting the obviously homemade rich gravy. My husband opted for a "Laurel and Hardy" or to others a 10oz rib -eye steak topped with lamb chops and 2 fried eggs served with chips and salad garnish... The fact that there was not a smidgen left speaks for its self, eggs cooked perfectly, steak full of flavour and cooked to his request, the lamb chops were meaty and juicy.
Unfortunately we couldn't manage a pudding after such generous portions but have to say the puddings we saw coming out to other tables looked beautiful.
We will definitely be stopping off again and have been telling our friends all week about "The Horns Inn" Garstang.
10 out of 10
Jess
Teamed with good background music, great food and enthusiastic staff, Horns Inn offers a relaxed atmosphere and is therefore a pub which I find my family and I often return to. They offer a wide variety of food including a daily specials board. I would definitely recommend it.
Centrehalf
My wife and I recently had lunch in the Horn Inn in Churchtown. We did not want a full meal so decided on soup and a sandwich.
£3.95 for a plate of tasteless lukewarm minestrone with a piece of crusty bread and butter and £5.45 for a single stringy roast beef sandwich with a small pot of watery coleslaw and some greenery. Terrible value, the worst I've had for a long time, it's going to be the New Holly or Punchbowl in future!
Samantha
21st March 09 - Chicken Liver Pate had mould underneath the butter - was told by chef that the mould was just green pate from the parsley in the butter sat on top of the pate (there was no parsley). Was then given another mouldy pate as a replacement, sent back again. Then I was informed that all the pates had been thrown in the bin. Asked for a refund and got a refund for the pate only. Terrible.