We ensured a miserable meal at the Tollemache arms recently.

Our main courses took almost one hour to appear (the restaurant wasn't
even full) and when they arrived it was an insult to cuisine.

The vegetarian dishes was devoid of any taste. The Risotto resembled
Batchelor's savoury rice, but overcooked. Another vegetarian dish
consisted of a soggy upside-down mushroom with a pile of overcooked
mixed vegetables just thrown on top.

The Tollemache knot (a sausage dish) was tough, over cooked and served
with raw red onion gravy and a lumpy mustard mash.

The pheasant was as dry as the sahara desert and showed now cooking
skill whatsoever.

The one hour wait was probably due to the chef extracting any taste
and texture out of the "food" that was presented to us.

If there had been anywhere else in the village that evening we would
have walked out.

Avoid.