We decided to pop over to the Sun Inn at Everton for a spot of lunch to celebrate a birthday. Usually we have a 5 star excellent experience there but were somewhat let down today. Normally I focus on my meal when writing a review but on this occasion it will be Mrs Wanderer’s offering that I will concentrate on.
She decided to opt for a well tried, tested and trusted Caesar Salad with the £3 optional chicken. This is normally chargrilled and warm but this time around it was cold. However, it was not just cold but fridge cold. When asked how our meals were she said that she was surprised that the chicken was neither chargrilled nor warm. We were given the answer that too many people had complained about having warm chicken on a cold salad!
As far as I’m concerned this was a wholly unsatisfactory answer. I would even go so far as to say it was a cop-out. There are three reasons for saying this:
Firstly, a chicken Caesar Salad usually has warm, chargrilled chicken, never cold and certainly not just taken out of the fridge prior to service!
Secondly, the chicken in this case is an optional extra at a £3 cost. If people don’t want warm chicken on their salad they can choose not to have it.
Thirdly, it is not beyond the wit of the management to offer the choice of either cold or chargrilled chicken rather than giving no option at all.
This experience has put Mrs W off having the Caesar Salad, at least for the foreseeable future, but she will no doubt return to it (although checking first about how the chicken is offered up).
Finally, as far as my meal was concerned I went for the Camembert Burger with 4oz patty and a huge (and I mean huge) breadcrumbed camembert that was larger than the beef. This was fine if massively filling and cloying but the downside was that the chips were soggy. Given that, at the time of ordering, we were the only ones in the restaurant and the chips were presumably cooked to order there is no excuse for soggy chips!
In conclusion an unsatisfactory experience that made me question whether Darren was still the manager as the food is normally superb under his custodianship.
The Willoughton Wanderer 
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