Now perhaps it’s abuse of position to use this blog to slate a pub, but since it’s my blog I reckon I’m allowed.
We ventured up to St Albans to visit a couple of friends and their delightful two year old daughter. They called the pub and advised at the time of booking that they were bringing a toddler. All fine, say the pub.
So imagine the consternation on arrival that a) there are no high chairs (anyone who’s ever tried to eat a meal with a two year old will understand the key nature of such an item) and b) the pub’s staff seemed to be as far removed from ‘child-friendly’ as it’s possible to be. Our party was eventually told that ‘we can’t have children running about’ and made to feel so unwelcome that we left 3/4 of the way through our meal.
Now it’s entirely up to the landlord whether they want to have children or not, but clearly if you’re not a child-friendly pub, it’s useful to make that clear to those who book and mention that they are bringing a child. Add to that the extraordinarily rude manner in which all of this was handled and you have a pretty shoddy experience. Oh, and the food was pretty mediocre, too. 0/10. Don’t bother.