The Crown

Part of the Sizzling Pubs chain, my sister-​in-​law invited a group of us out for a pre-​Christmas dinner here this evening.
A group of 8 of us (all adults) dined here this evening, and it was pretty unsatisfactory.
It started off well, with 2 sharing plates for starters, and everyone enjoyed this. It wasn’t the best food ever, but but it was tasty, hot, and well-​presented. They were a bit slow to arrive but not compared to our mains.
We waited about 45 minutes after finishing before the mains started arriving. 2 mains finally came, and the rest of us waited another 10 or 15 minutes, and the wait wasn’t worth it. Things were missing, the chips were cold and tasted microwaved, and the food just wasn’t good. I had a fish goujon sandwich, and it was 2 tiny pieces between cheap white bread, without a lick of butter or sauce. It was undercooked and cold and just unsatisfactory.
It was really cheap — alas, it tasted and looked like it.
Our main plates were never cleared, even though we sat around for 30 minutes after we finished eating. Definitely they cannot handle a group (or it could be that they couldn’t handle the volume of groups this evening — we saw another 2).