Hungry Horse

Ook_Lil

Me and my friend go out for a meal sometimes and we go to a HH on a Thursday when the offer is a starter or pud included in the price of the main course. We have had the Gammon and the Chicken New Yorker. The food is good considering there isnt much cooking and the meal is hot. They cant do enough for you at the Mundy Arms near Heanor. We also go to other pubs where the prices are more expensive. We had Lasagne and it wasnt right, the chips were awful and we said so at the time buy no amends were made. I wrote a letter and never even got a reply. So we feel that maybe a HH is cheap and cheerful but at least, if the meal isnt quite up to scratch, you havent spent a lot of money. The Chicken New Yorker is a huge portion serving 2 chicken breasts wrapped in bacon with cheese and bq sauce with chips, peas, grilled tomato and onion rings. I cannot eat it all and they are very happy to give me a doggy bag for the second chicken breast to take home.

hgotsparkle

I've been to a few branches of Hungry Horse around Norfolk and Suffolk and I've honestly never had a bad meal there, everytime its been really nice. They change their menus annually so theres always plenty to try.
Whenever we feel like a meal out but don't want to spend loads, we go there. Went with a friend for lunch one weekday and we both had lasagne and a extra portion of chips each, plus 2 cokes and it came to around £16 total as the lasaganes were in the 2 for £8 mains.

Cornucopia

I would say the Rochester HH (The Waterside) was consistently good, and although they could probably do with a couple more staff, they are always friendly and customer-focussed, which is great.

It also has a nice view of the River Medway and the Medway bridges. Pity about the traffic noise, when you are outside, though.

I would guess that it would be easy for a chain like this to vary between locations.

Cyberman60

If my local Hungry Horse ever had any real ale on their Abbots pump I'd go there more often.

I had the Thursday curry at JDWs last week, for 8 quid (incl real ale), supersized, which includes Onion Bargee and vegetable samosa, which I thought was a good deal.

Cornucopia

Sounds okay.

The HH equivalent is £6.99 on a Wednesday, and has poppadom, chutney, rice, chips, naan, bhaji, samosa and spring roll (I think that's it).

Can't fault it for VFM. Never tried it, because I couldn't eat that much.

balletshoes

In our family there are a couple of fussy eaters, so it can be a bit of a mare finding somewhere to suit all of our tastes when we just fancy going out for a meal on the spur of the moment. We have a couple of Hungry Horse chain pub/restaurants near me, and a couple of Brewers Fayres as well. We just went to Hungry Horse earlier this evening, the portions were large, service fast, and it was all hot. My OH had a sirloin steak, he is fussy as to how its cooked, he asked for medium-well, and thats what he got. He polished off the lot.

The nearest chain pub to my sister's house is a Marstons, we have eaten there and its similar but better than either Brewers Fayre or Hungy Horse in my opinion .

Cornucopia

I had lunch there again today.

£4.99 for Burger & Chips & a pint. Simple but very nice.

Imdaewen

Cornucopia wrote: »

I would say the Rochester HH (The Waterside) was consistently good, and although they could probably do with a couple more staff, they are always friendly and customer-focussed, which is great.

It also has a nice view of the River Medway and the Medway bridges. Pity about the traffic noise, when you are outside, though.

I would guess that it would be easy for a chain like this to vary between locations.

Hah thought you was.

I wouldn't go for HH for a meal, especially when you have places like Nazs, Choaladda, Shozna and Grandma Thai over in Rochester.

However HH cakes are a different story (ask for another spoon!)

TBH I find all of the places by Diggerland lacking and disappointing! Even the bowling alley is bloody expensive.

MrChandlerBing

Hungry horse is lovely if you like to eat a pile of cheap, incredibly suspect food whilst surrounded by 50 obese people enjoying the 'big plate specials'.

The screams of hundreds of children provides suitably awful background music.

Cornucopia

Decided to try the Veg Tikka Masala today. Not nearly as good as the Chicken (and not the same sauce at all).