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| - I want to love Ceili Cottage. It has a lot of things to recommend it:
- atmosphere is good, it's a nice conversion from a garage
- good beer on tap
- delicious and fresh pub food, including an excellent sticky toffee pudding
- it's in my neighbourhood
I've been there several times and had fun. Service is often good, and occasionally bad. When it's bad, servers are indifferent, hard to find and even rude.
A surly waiter isn't enough to turn me off. I can turn a blind eye and tip less, but they are also very strict about whether you can sit at a table, and that makes me feel unwelcome.
If you're not eating a meal, they send you to the bar. Once, my husband and I were sent to the bar on a slow Saturday afternoon, with only a handful of customers in the place. The worst experience I had was with a large group of friends. We'd had drinks and a full dinner, when a waiter decided we'd been there long enough and took one of our tables away. While we were still sitting there. Maybe we wanted another drink? Go to the bar! we were told.
I want to love Ceili Cottage. I want it to be my local pub, but it's not relaxed and friendly like a pub. It's more like an uptight restaurant.
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