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Imnotcheap to elaborate, the potatoes were not soft or crispy, they verged on being hard. I didn't eat the 'pig' as it looked barely cooked to me. Others also had Brussels but they must have forgot to add mine.

If more people comment I will add more info.

Lynibis the pig looked suspicious on the photo. I wouldn't want to go there. Bet it wasn't cheap either

Imnotcheap and Leannexxx ok this was a place that does regular dinner parties for over 65s clubs around the area. There were about 200 patrons. We had a sliver of very dry Xmas pud with a drop of custard on a saucer sized plate and I hardly are anything. It cost £20 and all I could think was a Toby carvery is half the price, twice as much and tastes better even though it's not top class eatery. It annoys me that they can serve such a low quality meal to pensioners who won't complain.

Lynibis next time go toby carvery. £20 is far too much for what you got. Hope you at least got a cracker. The joke might have been your dinner

Lynibis £20 for that I would have said something myself

Leannexxx I'd have cried

Leannexxx as a first timer I couldn't really be the only one to complain as they all seemed ok with it. However, there definitely won't be a second time for me!

Lynibis that's not a meal lol

KateGriff169 it made me laugh when the hostess person got us all to applaud the chef and that he was so good not increasing the price with the cost of living. 200 people = £4,000 and even allowing for staff wages there was still profit in it, especially as people bought drinks at the bar.

tumblespots I left most, just ate a bit of meat, 2 of the spuds and half the stuffing and veg! Potatoes were undercooked and it tasted like a cardboard meal from catering packs heated up. What nearly choked me was that they asked for a round of applause for the chef. I would have been embarrassed to serve that free to guests at my home!

Lynibis You were very brave to taste it and I've never heard of a round of applause for the chef, and I wouldn't have done it given the meal! I think I would have asked where he had done his training! He clearly wasn't a chef! I wouldn't serve anything like that to my enemies... (if I had any)

tumblespots I didn't clap lol.

xKJG93 my first thought was hospital/school/old folks home dinners. And they acted as if we were getting a lovely Xmas dinner.

MrsCraig lol, yes it just annoys me that the oldies are charged £20 for that and think it's ok.

martinlufc5637 exactly what I thought, I didn't eat it!

Lynibis I wouldn't have either, £20 wow , you could have gone out and had a carvery for a lot less

jms19 £20

Lynibis If it was less than £7 or £8 it wouldn't be too bad but £20 is an absolute joke. It seems like a lot of eateries these days don't really care about what they sell and if it's decent value for money.

jms19 I roughly counted 200 so it was obviously processed catering stuff heated up and served. No chef worth his salt would have put that out to customers.

Lynibis I agree with you 100%. I have worked as a catering assistant years ago with some so-called chefs who left the cooking and presentation of the various meals to the catering assistant staff. Some of the catering assistants had no previous catering experience and only "followed orders" or some of the trained staff had unbelievable poor chef skills and don't get me started on poor hygiene in the kitchen.

TheChimp I had to try hard not to lol. It was a ticket in advance thing and all the others seemed to be regulars who appeared to like it!

MelissaLee1 I didn't fancy food poisoning so didn't eat that, and only half the rest. Best part was the cranberry sauce!