by celia » Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:00 pm
We went to the Beeches quite recently, mid week early evening, as I really couldn't be bothered cooking our teas that night. OK I wasn't dressed like Lady Docker, we hadn't gone for a night out it was far too early for that, we were casual and presentable, not jeans, but my money is good anywhere.
The food was excellent but alas we had one hell of a wait to get seated even though there weren't so many people in, the service was slow and unfriendly, plates dumped onto the table, rock hard veg but then that appears to be the thing everywhere, they never got around to asking if anyone wanted sauces or whether everything was alright. No bar waiter came to see if we required drinks, we had to get our own from the bar and then to top it all when we were leaving we had to correct them as they hadn't put the drinks onto the bill.
With table staff like that they could go out of business. What a shame the table staff let the place, the owners and the chef down. When corrected and challenged about the service and the undercharging, the reception person apologized for short staffing that night, but if short staffed why were they stood about doing nothing?
