The Royal Hotel

Value for money: Multiple reviews highlight cost-effectiveness for the services provided.

Ordered a takeaway forgot part of our order had to redeliver. Chicken full of water and tough. Garlic mozzarella bread dry. Felt like the food was rushed and chucked together. Disappointing and will not be reordering again for prices charged.

We booked a table for 7pm and were shown to our table immediately. No problems with the service however my Partners food was very disappointing. He had black pudding as a starter and it really needed more sauce. I tried some and as 'the bombs' were quite big they were very 'claggy'. I had the chicken chaat, which I enjoyed. I had the warm Maroccan salad which had a good flavoured sauce. My Partner had cheese and onion pie - this consisted of a dish of melted cheese and onion with puff pastry on the top. Not enough pastry for the cheese. The worst part were the triple cooked chips and the peas. The chips were soggy and when you cut into them fat just oozed out. It was obvious the oil/fat hadn't been hot enough when the chips had been put in. The peas were very pale and like bullets. How can you get chips and peas wrong? The only thing we complained about were the peas. The waitress returned with our bill and the excuse was the chef was colourblind 🤔 My Partner is colourblind but it doesn't stop him cooking good food! He left a good proportion of his meal, which he never does. He needed to eat again that evening at home which shouldn't happen when you've just paid £77 to eat out. We had 2 drinks each (mine was just coke) We eat out a lot and are happy to pay this amount or more for good food. Very disappointing after we'd been looking forward to dining in the refurbished pub. BTW...The main dining room has a lot more character than it used to have.