Hello.
It's been a while since my last visit, but I've been off getting married and have had lots going on at home and at work since then.
The other night, my wife and I decided to go out for a meal. Nowhere in particular, we just decided to go for a drive and stop somewhere that looked nice.
We eventually ended up at the Castle Eden inn, which you get to by coming off the A19 Southbound at the A181 and then following the road through Castle Eden village.
The place looked nice from the outside, but that's where the niceities stopped!
It took the waitress 20 minutes to come to the table to take our order, it then took another 25 minutes for the starter to arrive. I had the salmon and prawns - which was OK ,but I've had better.
We were waiting a full 40 minutes fot the main course to arrive. When my steak arrived, I found out why - the thing must have been cooking for at least that amount of time. I'd asked for it medium, but it was burned to a crisp!
My wife told me to complain, but there was no way I was going to wait another 40 minutes for another one.
I got a half hearted apology from the miserable waitress on the way out saying that one of the staff had phoned in sick. That didn't wash with me though, because it wasn't exactly busy and she was really miserable all night.
Not as miserable as me when I paid the ?37.50 bill though!
So to summarise, it wasn't a good experience for me and has put me off the Castle Eden Inn completely!
Has anyone else been there? What did you think?
