One night during our exam period my best friend and I decided to go out for a drive and try to find some food that would be "safe" for me. We ended up at Basset's Pole pub/restaurant in Sutton Coldfield.
I asked the lady at the bar what on their menu would be suitable for coeliacs. She understood what coeliacs was (good start!) and then started looking through the menu. After discovering that the chips probably weren't gluten free (they weren't entirely sure) we decided on a curry which I was assured was gluten free.
We then chose a table and sat down. While at the table I picked up the full menu (apparently the one at the bar just contained titles and not descriptions of the food.) I quickly realised that the curry was served with naan bread. I immediately returned to the bar and talked to one of the waiters and asked them to omit the naan. He took my table number and assured me the meal would be gluten free.
Nearly an hour later, when our food eventually arrived (don't get me started on that!) my curry arrived with naan! The naan was on top of half of the rice. I removed the naan and that half of the rice (the other half was the other side of the curry dish) and ate what was left. I should probably have sent it back but having already waited an hour I just decided to eat what I could.
When the waitress came round to ask if everything was ok I complained but she didn't seem particularly interested and nothing was done about it. I was far too stressed with exams to start an argument so we just paid and left.
The food was poor, the service was poor and they couldn't do a simple thing like leave a naan off an order. What more can I say?!
Apologies for the lack of pictures and links in this post but there was nothing picture or link worthy! I don't recommend you look it up!
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
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