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| - Had heard good things about Churchill's, but was very disappointed on my first visit.
Went with family to celebrate a birthday dinner, at 3:30 on a Saturday afternoon. There were only two other parties in the place. In spite of the dead slow time, the waitress refused to help us split up a check ("You ordered appetizers, and those are too hard to split." Huh?), and seemed relatively uninterested in us most of the time we were there.
I wasn't super hungry, so asked to get the lunch portion of the Bangers & Mash after she talked about their homemade sausages. She said I couldn't do that on a weekend, but I'd want the dinner portion anyway.
That dinner portion had a pile of fairly tasty homemade potatoes, but only three halves of sausages. Not three sausages, three HALVES cut lengthwise. So 1 1/2 bangers for a dinner portion. That's not banging, that's barely mild thumping! And they were curled up from being overcooked. They seemed like they could have been tasty had they been cooked decent.
Oh, and the dinner special fried chicken? All out for the day. At 3:30? Seems like if you're going to run a dinner special, and have it on your special's board, you should, I dunno, HAVE the special in the kitchen somewhere.
My Guinness was also flat when I got it, and as I think about it... I started this review with two stars but I'm going down to one. An English pub that can't nail a Guinness and Bangers & Mash might want to rethink their priorities. I haven't been this disappointed in a pub in a long time, and I won't be back. Blech.
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