The George in Daventry

I know this is now owned by Blue Diamond and not Dobbies but what an awful experience. All self service unlike Beckworth and had to queue for ages to order. Food came out first with no sign of drinks I asked the waitress if she could check on them and she never returned. After going to counter and chasing them up was told ticket machine was down and they didn’t know what drinks had been ordered. No apology so I had to reorder all the drinks and by time got back to my food it was cold. Waitress literally shuffed the drinks on the table eventually but by that time we had all finished the awful food. Chips were overcooked and fish in fish sandwich was dripping with grease. Found attitude of staff very poor. When one waitress cleared table she did ask if everything was ok I said well actually it wasn’t. She said sorry about that and walked off!! We won’t be returning. I know this is has only been opened a couple of weeks but they seriously need some staff training on customer service

Unbelievable rude staff pretending to be connaisseur. They clearly never been in a country where they know what ☕️is. Staff member gave rude and not customer friendly comments. Shocked by the attitude.

A promotion leaflet received by post offering 30% off mains at Middlemore Farm was too good an opportunity, particularly when Tom Shepherd’s ‘best ever pub pie’ was the marketing headline. Whilst knowing Daventry town we had not heard of this pub, an attractively converted farmhouse set in a relatively new-build area north of the town. Our evening begins - despite promoting the bar as ‘the heart of the pub’ under the heading ‘whatever your tipple, we’ve got a drink waiting for you’ I was surprised when asking what draught ales were available to be told that there was a choice of one, namely, Pedigree, as all the other beers were bottled; a glass of chardonnay was also not available, only by the bottle – so a poor start to our evening. My wife ordered the pan-fried sea bass and prawns, but was told there were no prawns available, being substituted with fried scampi in a small separate bowl. The two pieces of sea bass were delicious but the accompaniment of a large quality of fried potatoes and the unwelcome scampi substitute just didn’t go well with the sea bass, so were left. My ‘best’ pie was very tasty with the delicious red wine sauce and the excellent accompaniments of soft mashed potato, green beans, carrots and peas, however, the pie was spoilt by the tough pastry, a softer pastry would have made the ‘best’ title, allowing the pie to fall apart without effort for the excellent ingredients to spill out. I am sure Tom Shepherd’s expert creation wasn’t made with too much flour making the pastry hard so the fault must lie with the preparation/cooking, being left just too long in the oven to over-harden the pastry. An excellent pie unfortunately spoiled by the cooking – Tom Shepherd take note, created right by you, cooked wrong by others. A visit to their kitchen by Tom Shepherd would be useful, but a return visit to Middlemore Farm will not be in our diary.

This was my first visit and I had a lovely breakfast. I had the Smoked Salmon Eggs Royale and my friend had the breakfast sandwich. There was a generous amount of salmon, the sauce was lovely and the poached eggs were perfectly cooked. I really enjoyed it. I also had a pot of tea which gave me about 3 cups worth, and was served with milk, sugar, and a lotus biscoff biscuit. My total bill was £16.30 which I thought was reasonable. My friend's sandwich was huge for the £8 price and she said everything in it was great. Will definitely be back for breakfast and perhaps also to try their main dinner menu

Fantastic food in a lovely old pub.