Bathpool Inn, Taunton Review

We visited the Bathpool Inn on Saturday 19th June 2010...for my Father-in-laws birthday treat (party of four).... we had been turned away from two pubs this evening already one due to just having a coach load party of people (The Monkton) saying they had done their 'covers' for the day and the other (Maypole) having no tables left at 7:30pm... so went in search of another place...The Bathpool what a mistake !

We really wish we hadn't bothered... when we arrived, we asked if they were still serving food (it was about eight pm)... Finally ordered after at least a 15min wait, placing starters, mains and our drinks order as well... but these took a further 15 mins, the starter took at least another 15 mins to get to us...!!! Then we were told that the main course Lamb wasn't available... so two of us had to re-order their mains...

You can see where all this is going... yes yet another 45 min wait for all the meals to arrive at the table only to find that the so called cod was like iron, the replacement steaks where anything but medium rare... all of us were pretty disappointed... even my father-in-law spoke up at his disgust... which is unusual for him... it spoilt what should have been a nice summers evening supposedly celebrating his birthday.... After trying to speak with the manager, who kept disappearing off, she asked what could they do for us well, we certainly didn't want anything else from the menu so reluctantly she took off the cost of two mains but even so, the final price was still pretty steep for the quality of food we had then only really good thing we can all say is that none of us went down with anything the young girl that served us really tried her best too !