On Sunday we went for a lovely walk in the most lovely Pentewan valley. What a special place King's Wood is. Afterwards we all went to the Ship Inn in Pentewan for the the Great Restormel Roast Review. We walked in and were not greeted in any sense. Maybe a nod. The service wasn't very friendly throughout the lunch. In all the other Roast reviews we have always been met with a smile, but not here, and it does make a difference. Whatever the attraction of a pub roast, part of it is that homeliness that a good pub can sprinkle on your Sunday. The roasts at The Ship cost £6.95, from a carvery.
We ordered a kids fish a chips and which was tangably minging and took twenty one minutes to come - how anal is that, these reviews have induced me to start timing restaurant meal delivery times. Once the kids' food was there, it was time for the roasting.
Pros
- The Pentewan valley and the village and the beach are lovely.
- Ummm... The roast at £6.95. That's a good price.
- The Beef - This was pale, like an old man's wrist. There was a lot of it, but it wasn't very good - tough like the boots of the aforementioned old man.
- No Greens - Is cabbage a green? It might be, but not when it's been boiled to the point that it has reverted to prime matter. Other than the non-green cabbage, there were no greens. This cannot be!
- Roasties - Dried by the carvery's incandescent sun to form a dessicated fluff, trapped in a leathery carapace.
- Carrots - The warm side of raw.
- Yorkshire Pudding - Bad. A tasteless dough.
- Gravy - Very herby. Very bland.
I don't like giving bad reviews. In fact it's pretty hard to do. But at the end of the day, when it comes to reviewing Sunday roasts, you either keep your integrity or you lose it. I feel a bit sorry for the Ship Inn, Lerryn; they got a really bad review but I got the impression that on another day they could have got much much better. I didn't get this with the Pentewan Ship. The unhappy service, the lazy lasered carvery and the lack of any real thought in the food created an experience that oozed pure under-averageness. A generous five out of ten.
1st The Western Inn, St Austell – 8/10
2nd The Britannia Inn, St Austell – 7/10
3rd The Polgooth Inn, Polgooth – 6/10
4th The Ship Inn, Pentewan - 5/10
5th The Ship Inn, Lerynn – 4/10
3 comments:
I was at The Ship in Pentewan on that same Sunday, but to read your review I would not have thought so. The meals we had were very good - including the roast. The staff were friendly and polite. In fact the only thing that upset our lunchtime were a couple with two or three unruly children in the public bar who shouted and screamed consistently without any attempt being made to control them.
By the way tangibly! - not tangably! - and is the expression "anal" really necessary in an educated review??
Hi Anonymous
Thanks for the comment, that’s great that you had a good roast there – as said in the original review it is not easy to give a bad one. Of course it wasn’t just chance that your roast was better - the clear and immutable fact is that since the original review they have taken criticisms onboard and polished up their act. It can only be that
As for>>> ”and is the expression "anal" really necessary in an educated review??”
Umm… yes why not. Its clearly used in the Freudian sense rather than the “Bubba’s goanna take you down to Brown Town” sense that I suspect your referring to:p
Thanks again for your comment review:)
Mat
Hello again
I did say that I was at the Ship on the same day as you, so they would hardly have had time to "polish up their act" because of your review would they?
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