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| - The food is fairly good, I just wish there were more choices instead of almost everything in a pasty. I wish there was more protein in the dishes (they are very carb heavy).
There is not a lot of the meat in the pasties, it is about 25% meat with the rest potatoes/onions and then the crust on top of that.
They seem to run out of things quickly, they didn't have coffee/tea one evening. Often something is missing off the plate (they run out and just don't say anything?).
The liver pate is good if you like pate but no red onion marmalade was included.
The wine gravy doesn't have that much flavor to it - very close to typical brown gravy taste.
Leek soup actually tastes mostly like a flour potato soup, no real flavor and thick with flour, though when a bite if leek is found it tastes good. Just not what I expected at all.
The Homemade Coleslaw was a nice surprise, it is a red cabbage warm with sweetness from apple vinegar. They say Cornish Style but no description which means for most people they expect something close to typical coleslaw and get surprised (maybe pleasantly or unpleasantly depending on your sense of adventure).
Deserts are probably the best items, though the Banoffee Pie and Sticky Toffee Pudding were very sweet. The chocolate pudding was not sweet at all and the flavor was very nice. They serve a very small amount of fresh cream with some of the desserts (left off of one, maybe ran out that day) plus ice cream, it would be nicer to have more cream instead of non-premium vanilla ice cream.
They seem thrown if you ask for a change to the dish (e.g. could I have some milk for the black tea - isn't that typical British food and this is a British restaurant?, or if you don't want the bread with the soup - huge pieces of fairly nice but standard white fluffy bread). They do the changes it is just they have a strong reaction to you asking as if nobody had ever asked for a change before.
Service is good overall, some servers seem to stand at the table and have long conversations with customers (the first time I thought he was a friend and had some free time so stood there for 10 minutes chatting about all kinds of topics, but I have seen each visit at tables close by, different servers each time).
This is a very casual restaurant, tables are stained and varnished picnic style tables with benches. They are all larger so often you are sharing the table with others at the other end. Whiskey bottles are used for candle stick holders. It can get louder though it was not real loud and there was music in the background at least one visit (it was hard to tell if it was a performer somewhere not visible or CDs playing).
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