Fox Country Inn

Impulse decision by us to try this recently renovated restaurant/​pub/​hotel prompted by lots of local advertising and with a birthday to celebrate. In the end we were glad we did — but it didn’t start too well!
Thinking Saturday night would be busy we took the precaution of booking so, were surprised on arrival, to find only one other table with 4 guests was occupied. Didn’t mind that because it usually means you will get red hot service, not so tonight! After being seated by a very charming young man we were abandoned for ten minutes with no menus to ponder and no drinks to sup. Thinking it might be one of those places where you order drinks and food at the bar I went off to investigate to find the waiter behind the bar who was just coming to serve you sir. Ordered the drinks and he did thankfully, turn up quite quickly and then a while later appeared with the menus.
With a little trepidation we ordered but can only comment that the meal was an excellent surprise. The home made soups were especially nice and lovely steaks were well presented and worthy of the price. Served with chunky style chips that satisfied the hunger pains and followed by excellent sweets of good portions. You really only need one cheese and biscuits between two although all of ours disappeared! The local ice cream wasn’t bad either although have had tastier.
So all in all a very pleasant meal of good standard and worth remembering for a special treat.
On the plus side the food is excellent but they do fall down on the service side and would hate to be there when they were busy! It seemed the staff were rushing around all evening but not sure why as they only visited tables when they had to and never more than a quarter of the tables occupied all evening. Shame because all they need is a genial ‘mine host’to welcome and take care of guests and they could create a really outstanding restaurant experience. We will definitely try it again just in case it was due to staff shortage or something but will go prepared for a wait.
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