Guest User
June 16, 2024
I can walk to this hotel/restaurant from home and have been going off and on for years. Usually it is fine although service is never its strong point. Dinner last night was an absolute low. Our restaurant table was not available so we got put in the bar, being pursuaded it would be quieter. The quietest thing was the service. We had to ask at the bar for menus; we had to go to the bar after nobody had taken our order in 40 minutes; we had to go to the bar to ask where our food was; our food took 30 minutes to arrive and then looked as if it had been left in a cupboard for all that time; fondant potatoes aren't fondant potatoes they're a stack; mint puree was DISGUSTING; we had to go to the bar to ask for a pudding menu; we had to go to the bar to ask where our puddings were. And it's not cheap - £23 for my lamb and £8.95 for pudding. The lamb was nice but for those prices I would have expected a dessert fork as well as a spoon and not having my cutlery dumped on the table as an afterthought. Whoever was "in charge" of food and beverage on the night we went needs some serious supervision because they left 5 teenage girls running a busy bar and restaurant. As we waited endlessly for our food/menus/cutlery we watched, across the terrace, as 4 waitresses in the restaurant stood around chatting. The issue, as it often is for The Mill, is that it had a coach party staying and they cannot cope with the hotel, restaurant and bar being busy all at once and residents get priority. So, in short, if you're staying in the hotel risk it but if you want a civilised dinner with friends do, please, go somewhere else. We would not go back for the same sort of event to this venue as it was a distressing waste of money.