"Some vegan dishes"   My Rating
1 ishtar	Posted on: Monday, May 25, 2009
	Review: My first visit - and not expecting much from a traditional countryside pub. But pleasantly surprised to find a wide variety of vegetarian dishes - and staff who knew what veganism is! Though only 3 dishes were vegan this gave us enough choice. One dish brought with cheese was immediately replaced with apologies. I don't think we would have found anywhere else in the area would could have given us more than chips and salad. The staff were cheerful and friendly.   Pros: Friendly * Helpful * Knew about veganism Cons: Could have more vegan dishes * *
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"Not very vegie"   My Rating
1 Pippin	Posted on: Friday, December 28, 2007
	Review: Unusually, King Edward IV's menu has a whole page of vegie mains, but aside from a great soup of the day, that's as good as it gets. My vegie main was £12 (compared to £17 for a good steak) and was a *tiny*, flavourless potato-filled pastry- not even a bit of cheese in it to perk up the taste/ingredient cost. Plus, it was clear they'd quickly baked off the vegie dishes and brought them to table without co-ordination with the rest of the kitchen; our plates sat going frigid for another 10 minutes while the grills and pastas were brought out. (and pastry should be oven-hot- an already flavourless dish was overwhelmed by the taste & texture of grease) And the staff- they appeared quite nice but repeatedly ignored questions about the vegie-friendliness of entrees & desserts, and were definitely not pro-active- I'd turned down buying a chocolate ganache because they couldn't work out if it was vegie, so when my second choice of chocolate torte turned out to actually be a mousse which merely reversed the colours of the ganache, they should have picked that up. And despite not eating that second-choice dessert, I was still charged a very hefty £7 for it. (which is fine for a proper dessert, but not when all they've done is taken it out of a packet). Don't go here specifically, and if you get dragged along, stick to the soup (assuming it's vegie!).   Pros: soup du jour * olde worlde pub * Cons: expensive * not vegie-friendly * apathetic staff
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