bad bad place

It was Mum’s 60th birthday, and we all went to a pub restaurant, the Plough and Harrow in Shentone, Lichfield.  It had a good write-up from a local paper.  An ominous sign was how empty it was at 1pm on Sunday lunchtime, indeed it was empty.  The food that arrived was not bad, N and I had aubergine and mozzarella grilled.  This was served with salad.  But, we had ordered mozzarella and aubergine parcels on a tapenade (spelt tampeanade) with potatoes and vegetables.  The main problem was the speed of service.  We waited almost one hour for our main courses, and bearing in mind it was empty this is way too long.  Even our puddings took 40 minutes, which were mainly ice cream and pie to serve out.  At one point they brought the ice creams for 3 of the 4 children.  S got left out – poor thing.  Anyway, Dad and I complained to the manager, who barely registered the problems.  She gave us £20 off the bill, which I thought was merely a gesture.  I want proper duress, more than obviously never going again.