The Spotted Dog, Penshurst

The food here has been a little inconsistent this year, I understand because of staff changes. However, a new chef was installed in August and I am pleased to comment that having eaten there 3 times in the last 3 weeks the food is back to where it was, consistently good. The Halibut with the King Prawn sauce was superb. The last meal was on Friday when myself and my guests had the misfortune to be sitting near a table where one particular individual had clearly had a bad day and having eaten a full meal called the manager over to remonstrate, about the service, (to the severe embarrassment of his guests who kept looking into there laps and other diners trying to look away). He then proceeded to almost knock the managers glasses off with an over enthusiastic demonstration of the alleged service. This is a pub, not Claridge�s and the service on Friday was polite and timely. My self and diners at other tables thought the manager had handled this matter very well and this individual was unreasonable.

17 Sep 2008 09:10