Boars Head Hotel

I have actually been to this place 1.5 times…
1^st time I went on a Wednesday — the waiter was attentive when we were having tea in the living room type room with an open fire, and the starter size salad was of good quality — I decided I wanted to go back. prices were ok appart from the tea — it cost me over £12 just for 4 servings of tea.
The 2^nd time I had actually booked a table in the bistro area.
When we arrived we were not greeted — or seated — stood there for ages before the woman from the bar decided to come and see us.
Then we studied the menue — the waiter did not come to take our orders — we waited for over 20 minutes — the people at the bar were very loud and rowdy — we had been given a table directly infront of them — although the restaurant was quite empty.
We eventually got so fed up with waiting that we decided to go somewhere else and left without food.
— we went to Piccolino in Collingham –they were absolutely brilliant.

We dropped by for lunch after pootling around Ripley Castle for the day. Only the bistro was open, which was fine. The bar is long and narrow, with more open seating areas at either end, which made for a cozy little spot.
The meals were actually very good — sausages in gravy on mash was very delicious — and the kid options were pretty reasonable (until one of our lot decided to dump a ton of salt and pepper on his stroganoff. Not that he didn’t end up eating it anyway).
A good place to drop by, I’d say.