Restaurant at The Falcon Hotel

Janie (10 November 2007)

For me, The Falcon was like an old friend who I hadn't seen for a while, and when I did, found them changed, and not for the better. We've been dining at the Falcon for almost thirty years - it was a favourite place to go for Christmas Day lunch, when I was a child and I spent my wedding night there fifteen years ago. We last visited in 2003 and had a wonderful meal, but our experience last night was not up to the standards I'd come to expect.

Firstly, the cosy cellar bar was mainly empty of bar staff while we waited for our table and although we'd booked for 8 pm, it was after 8.30 pm by the time we were seated. As a party of six with two children, we were seated outside of the main dining area, in splendid isolation. The bubbly ordered by my father as a surprise for my mother was forgotten, but later taken off the bill as a gesture of goodwill.

The service was adequate but impersonal - the special atmosphere of the old Falcon was missing and although the food was acceptable, pub grub is a good description and I would need a lot of persuading to return.

Ted (25 September 2007)

We have stayed and dined at the Falcon on numerous occasions over the last twenty five years and, until our last visit, I have always enjoyed the cuisine. However, we left with the feeling that we were served with bar meals, albeit in the restaurant, at restaurant prices. As bar meals they would have been acceptable. Maybe we have only ourselves to blame as we had been warned by people who live locally, that things had changed. I can only agree with Ian.

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