The Mansion

Sarah K. ( 30s, Female )

I had a business meeting in this pub and arrived an hour early to eat dinner before people began to arrive. When I first sat down in the front of the pub I realised there were several very small fruit flies (maybe 10) all fighting to get to my drink before I could so I decided to move to the room the meeting would be in to eat and hopefully avoid the flies. By the time my food arrived I had realised that the whole pub has a terrible fly infestation and after I reported this to several members of staff I realised that this is something they are aware of but have done nothing about. I ate my meal by using only a fork because I had to keep a menu in the other hand to bat away the numerous flies attacking me.

Needless to say I didn't eat it all as it was completely offputting and when asked by the waitress if I'd enjoyed my meal at the end I explained all of this and got a blank expression and she walked away.

The food is, in my opinion, below average (the chips were thin, chewy and dry) and as I'd paid over £10 for fish and chips I began my meeting very stressed and left sharply after it had ended as I couldn't bear the flies anymore.

On the flip side, there was one very pleasant member of staff (australian I think) who was a new female employee behind the bar and seemed to empathise with the fly problem.