Toby Carvery: Bolton Watermillock

Blunt the knives and bend the forks,
Smash the bottles, burn the corks
Chip the glasses, and crack the plates
That’s what bilbo baggins hates!

Oh no! I’ve had to knock a couple of stars off after tonight’s visit!
We walked in the door and a staff member saw us stood at the «wait here to be seated» podium, but didn’t acknowledge us as she then went off to the bar. She returned a little while later to take us to a table and take our drinks order.
After our drinks arrived, we didn’t speak to any other staff until the end of the meal. Nobody came to take our order (so after a while, we just went to the carvery and helped ourselves), nobody asked if everything was okay, nobody asked if we wanted any more drinks, and nobody cleared our plates.
At this point, the staff/​waiting staff were stood around chatting with the chefs, chatting and loudly laughing etc. Only after I managed to catch the eye of the staff member who brought our drinks out did she come and ask if we’d finished so she could take our plates and bring over the bill. At this point she didn’t ask if everything was okay either, and when we put the card in the machine, she wandered over to another table to straighten the cutlery rather than speak to us.
The goodbye we got was half-​hearted too.
A real shame really. The food was still very good, so it keeps three stars, but the service which is usually good was just non existent tonight. Not pleasant :(

After a hard Sunday shift the last thin both me and my beloved felt like slaving over a hot stove, neither did we want to sit in a restaurant for an hour or so. As I was craving a Sunday dinner, Tobey Carvery it was, my other half’s first carvery experience I must add.
We were seated quickly and were told there was no gammon left, the waitress took our drinks order only a diet coke for me (unfortunately no wine as I was on antibiotics) and a Setlla for Ed. We were told we could go up and get our food whenever we were ready. Before I wasted away with starvation we made our way up to the carver, we had to wait about 5 minutes while he finished tidying up but he did apologies.
We were then offered the standard carvery (£9.95) with the option to king-​size (an extra £1.50). WE BOTH KING-​SIZED, I had both beef and turkey while Ed just stuck to beef, we were both given two massive Yorkshire puddings as well as two sausages. At this point I started to think I had bitten off more than I could chew.
Then it was on the veg and potatoes, there was mash roast and new potatoes along with peas, carrots, parsnips (roasted of course), broccoli and cauliflower. Oh and not to forget the stuffing! We piled up our plates and headed to the gravy stand, unfortunately unlike the veg this did not seem fresh.
We went back to our table where our drinks were waiting for us, was we tucked in the meat was juicy and moist, the gravy luke warm, roast potatoes crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside and the veg was all hot and fresh.
To my amazement along with my fiancés I polished off the whole thing, bar one sausage which he happily finished. I then went on to order a honeyc ombe sundae, I was slightly disappointed as it looked nothing like the picture but it sorted out my sweet craving.
Overall I would say for a quick tea it is great, not the sort of place I’d go for a special occasion. No pictures of the food sorry I was that hungry I couldn’t wait to tuck in!