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Originally Posted by tabaluga
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the walton arms in altham is rather yummy!
mmm,mmmm.
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Last year I would have agreed with you. We went 3 times and each time the food and the service were spot on.
But, after eating there yesterday (Sunday evening), I have to report a big dissapointment in both.
When we arrived at 6pm, the "front of house" was clearly having a bad day as earlier customers who were just leaving asked "why he was being so rude".
Ok so you can't please everyone.
We were shown to our table and given our menus, but not asked whether we wanted to order any drinks. Eventually a waitress returned and took our food orders, just mains, no starters (we had already been up to the bar to fetch our own drinks).
By 7pm, there was no sign of our food and we were getting restless, (also our glasses were getting empty). The waitresses were clearly waiting for some action from the kitchen and apologised for our delay and reassured us that our order would be coming shortly.
The food arrived about 15 mins later, but it was not worth the wait. The beef was tough and the small dish of over-cooked veg between 4 people just added insult to injury.
With so many large pub chains offering very average pub food, the Walton Arms used to be a breath of fresh air. Let's hope this was just a "bad day" and not the standard of things to come.
