Toby carvery - Worst visit to a restaurant i have ever experienced.

olias

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

Did you really ask 50 people to sniff your gravy boat?

:j:rotfl::jPost of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Money_User

olias wrote: »

:j:rotfl::jPost of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It really makes you wonder what was the worst part of that evening for the Aunt. The one or two mishaps or the embarrasing member of family constantly shouting at the staff and even at one point getting round the resturant and making every person sniff her gravey!

SHIPSHAPE

C_Mababejive wrote: »

There really is nothing worse than some crusty old fooker telling you to cheer up when your fed up. He should have decanted the hot gravy down the front of the coffin dodgers pants as they would,no doubt,have the waistband conveniently located half way up his boney old ribs.

I disagree, there is nothing worse than some miserable, spotty looking teen serving up my culinary choices, it makes me lose my appetite.

Almost as bad as finding a beautiful spot for sunbathing on a lovely beach in Majorca only to later be surrounded by fat, old birds who always seem to come from oop north.

barbiedoll

Our local Toby restaurant used to be ghastly. A friend and I took our mums and assorted family members for a meal a couple of years ago, because it is cheap and cheerful and we had kids with us.

My new potatoes were microwaved for so long that you couldn't get a fork into them. When I told the (very helpful) waitress, she took them off my plate and put them onto a small one and took them back into the kitchen to my pleas of "Don't cook them any more, they'll explode!" I did get another portion, which were cold but at least edible. My friend had a chicken in pastry dish, when she cut into it, the inside of the chicken was pink! :eek: That got changed too. Nearly every dessert that we ordered was "off the menu today" so we all ended up with ice-cream, which I hate (hurts my fillings :rotfl:)
We had grubby cutlery and glasses and my mum had a plate with a big chip out of the side.
To be fair, the staff were fine and the waitress gave us a free bottle of wine to make up for the dessert fiasco, and for the money, we didn't think it was worth making a big fuss, you get what you pay for I guess. We haven't been back there since though!

aheaton46

Up till today I'd have said how my experiences of Toby Carverys were all good.

Went to one today, told there was a 25 minute wait for a table. It looked pretty busy but we agreed to wait. After about 10 minutes when they'd called 3 names to their tables they left the waiting list clipboard on the counter so I took a look. There were 30 groups waiting in front of us. No way on earth were they going to be seated in the next 15 minutes!

Left pretty sharpish, which rather annoyed the chap on the bar who'd started getting our drinks. Still, maybe if they'd been honest in the first place.

Bettie

aheaton46 wrote: »

Up till today I'd have said how my experiences of Toby Carverys were all good.

Went to one today, told there was a 25 minute wait for a table. It looked pretty busy but we agreed to wait. After about 10 minutes when they'd called 3 names to their tables they left the waiting list clipboard on the counter so I took a look. There were 30 groups waiting in front of us. No way on earth were they going to be seated in the next 15 minutes!

Left pretty sharpish, which rather annoyed the chap on the bar who'd started getting our drinks. Still, maybe if they'd been honest in the first place.

Depends on how many guests you had, how many other groups had, whether they can juggle tables, whether other guests had been told they might have a longer wait cause of table size, high chairs etc, if the list contained all fours but they had a two table then a couple would get to the front a lot quicker etc. I see no reason why they should 'lie' except maybe they are like this pub near me that does carvery and they always, always, always make you wait in the bar area, even if they are EMPTY, just to get you to buy more drinks maybe??
I only ever went to a Toby once on a Sunday, it was dearer than mid week and approx 1 hour wait, it was packed out which shows how popular it is but I prefer a quieter time.

C_Mababejive

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

I disagree, there is nothing worse than some miserable, spotty looking teen serving up my culinary choices, it makes me lose my appetite.

Almost as bad as finding a beautiful spot for sunbathing on a lovely beach in Majorca only to later be surrounded by fat, old birds who always seem to come from oop north.

We are in agreement.

All situations you highlight are similarly off-putting and intolerable.

The coffin dodger may have meant well or it could have been one of those smug,veiled put downs which says..hey I'm all right..I'll try and grind you down so that i feel even better.

Still time is a great healer and a great leveller !

noangel666

Yes i did seriously ask them all to sniff it........

I can assure you i am not a troll, Nuts maybe

They all took it very light heartedly actually, I did make an error because i didn't ask the people who were eating in the restaurant as it was dead. I infact went in to the bar and did it LOL

My bad!!!

Oh i and i didn't get a free meal actually it was all paid for except the hairy one. Including the starters we all had to keep us going for the 2 hour wait.

I have seen a few people saying the same about this particular restaurant having gone to the dogs online.

noangel666

ojc77 wrote: »

You don't think that the hair could have fallen from the head of one of the 50 people you made sniff the gravy do you?!

Perhaps your cousin then poured the gravy over her mash and hey presto that's where the hair came from!

Yes i do think it could have quite easily come from a customer........but i also think they should have removed it from the carvery once they realised it had been cross contaminated with human hair.

No one in our group had long blond hair, thankfully. Plus that gravy was not put on anyones plate it stank.

skiddlydiddly

Maybe the waitress is short sighted and actually did serve you up a pot of finest roast Brazillian?I feel sorry for the poor sod who gets a Bisto Latte in the morning.