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AVOID!!! This review is for Chef and Brewer The Griffin Widnes

This review is for The Griffin WidnesWe arrived at 7.30 pm and we’re seated immediately. Good start and the ambiance of the restaurant was pleasing and the waitress pleasant and attentive. Chose our starters but our main choice (fillet steak) was disappointingly not available so we chose a second dish and dessert but the waitress then returned to the table to tell us that our second choice of main (lamb) was also unavailable. Even though there wasn’t really any other main on the menu that we wanted we compromised and made a third choice . The starter came which we both enjoyed but the main course of pie triple cooked chips and seasonal veg was awful, the pastry was so hard we could only scoop out the middle and the so call triple cooked chips were infact insipid frozen chips which weren’t even cooked properly, the presentation of the dish was very poor the vegetables just being piled over the chips, not in the least appealing. My wife’s plate when taken away was almost as full as it was when served and the waitress did comment and apologised profusely. Dessert was also a disaster three scoops of ice cream which came in a sundae glass completely melted and resembled cream.As if all that wasn’t enough when we asked for and received the bill we had been over charged and it took over 20 minutes for this to be resolvedNeedless to say we will never frequent the Griffin in Bold ever again we are not ones to make a fuss and cause embarrassment at a venue but we thought you ought to know.What astounds us more than anything else is the fact that we regularly call at the Bottle and Glass in Rainford and the standard of the food there is always excellent and consistent as is the presentation something going wrong at The Griffin we just wasted our money.

Date of experience: Aug 22, 2020