Review of The Crown Inn 3*

Father's Day — We had previously enjoyed two trips to The Crown Inn, these were sphere of the moment meals, which were thoroughly enjoyable (although over 21 months ago). After trying to book some of our usual pubs for a Father's day meal we were delighted when they could cater for our table of six. When we tried order our main meals at 5.45pm we were bluntly told that the evening menu didn't start until 6pm, we were not expecting our meal to arrive in five minutes, reluctantly the Landlady took our orders, early. When it came to the meal we asked for a highchair for our 16 month old Daughter, to which another blunt reply "we don't have highchairs", we have eaten in many establishments across the UK since having a young child, this is the only time we have ever experienced this! we would have been told this when we booked apparently, although we were not informed. Food time — three of our party (including myself) opted for the carvery, it was at best a 3/10, the beef was incredibly tough, the vegetables were not fresh and we had to endure frozen Yorkshire puddings, the other meals were bland. When it came to paying we (my partner and her brother) had agreed to treat their father, he is an unwell man and it is likely that this will be his last Father's day, the bill came to £90.15, we were told we couldn't split the 5p so we both had to pay £45.10, we wouldn't have left a tip, but had no option. All-in-all we left rather embarrassed that we had recommended this establishment as a great venue for Father's Day, our party travelled an hour and a half to Gayton to be left extremely disappointed, we will not be returning. I feel this once lovely village pub will soon end up as many pubs do, a boarded up shell waiting for property development.