Has anyone been here recently? If not, don't!

I went there on Friday night and it was absolutely shocking. We placed an order for food to be told it would take an hour, foolishly we accepted and waited. We onions rings + mushrooms and garlic bresd starter to see us through.

The starters arrived, garlic bread was nice but the mushrooms and 3 onion rings we foul and swimming in fat; such much so that the bottom onion ring was just a soggy ring of batter.

An hour passed and I asked for an update on our order, note: They didnt come to our table to inform us and apologise. The waitress, who was a repulsive, mardy cow informed me it would be another 15 mins. I sat down and waited some more.

The waitress wanders over again and I asked why it was taking so long, another 10mins having passed. She had the audacity to laugh and say,

"Its always busy on Friday",

"Oh well, I guess that makes it ok then...." I was ushered to say in that polite British way. "My F@*!&ng arse!"

We launched into a tirade: "Stop laughing right now, it isn't funny!" and "find out where the food is" (it STILL wasn't even on the grill!!) and "thats it, we want our money back". At this point I also shouted over to two other tables who were keenly eavesdropping:

"Don't order food here, you'll be sorry and you'll wait all night"

to which both tables got up and left, hehe, excellent. Serves them right! They lost custom from us 4, a table of 5 and another couple.

What really annoyed me was the way they expected us to sit there and wait; the looks on their face when we walked to the till for a refund were priceless.

Has anyone experienced this wonderful pub?

Only been once and asked for salad instead of pea's as was not allowed!
I was expecting the food to be pretty crap and was not disapointed but matched with the poor service and lack of the most basic flexibility I don't intend to ever go back.
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There's actually a simple way of avoiding pubs like this. Each one has a sign on the outside which says something like 'Buy one meal, get the second for half price', or 'Two meals for £5', words to that extent.

Such places are notorious for slap-dash anything-will-do meals, where kids run riot and the attitude of the 'staff' is based solely around an 'Am I boverred' approach.

Having said all this, with two young daughters I have eaten at Aunt Sally and found that both times the food was very good. We simply arrived early (noon on the Sunday, 5 on the previous occasion, a Friday evening).

But the best fun was watching the other families gearing themselves up in preparation to literally dive into our seats once we'd finished our meal. As soon as I'd wiped my mouth with the napkin I promise you twenty people made a bee line for our table. Man, I so nearly decided to order a sweet just to keep the crowds at bay (and of course, p155 them off somewhat).

The good lady and i used to frequent the Aunt Sally for a half-decent meal out a few years back. Hardly top-quality food, but good value and a pleasant enough environment.
Then there was a change in manager and they replaced the real ale with creamflow rubbish - as i always find that pubs which don't offer decent beer don't tend to offer decent food either, we haven't been back since.

Having said that, who on earth decides it would be a good idea to go out for a meal late on a friday night?

I went to Aunt Sally's years ago and it was great - really nice food and good value. Went back last year however on a Sunday and experienced the opposite problem to the OP - I placed an order for two meals, stopped to pick up two cokes from the bar en route and the food beat me back to the table!!

No kidding, it was there in two minutes flat and was not only a re-hashed mocrowave jobbie but was also cold and completely tasteless. Worse than a school dinner.

Aunt Sally in 4 words: cold bland microwaved food.

Actually I was there last night. We've been there quite a few times since we moved to Sheffield six months ago and always found it quite reasonable (for what it is - cheap and cheerful pub grub).

However, after my mushroom stroganoff last night I experienced very bad stomach pains and was vomiting and having diarrhoea from 11pm until half past six this morning. The d&v has stopped now but am still feeling crap.

Not 100% sure the two are linked but didn't eat anything else much yesterday as was at work all day.

I've been in a few times, not too bad price wise for meals, 2 for £7 I think, but like a lot of Pubs, they don't listen when you ask for "Scampi and chips, NO peas please", and the flipping plate comes back full of peas! :rant:

Sounds a wonderful place. lol

i went along time ago - probably 10 years and got food poisoning from the scampi - that put me off going again

It's absolute dross in every respect. You can guess what it's going to be like just from looking at the sign.

But it's so close to the Hallamshire Hospital it can serve up any old rubbish and still make money as there are loads of potential customers passing nearby. So if they have a bad experience and never visit again it's not much of a problem.

[QUOTE=Ousetunes]There's actually a simple way of avoiding pubs like this. Each one has a sign on the outside which says something like 'Buy one meal, get the second for half price', or 'Two meals for £5', words to that extent.

agreed - avoid all two for a fiver or bogof meal places - if they can do the food that cheap it must be low grade, frozen, microwaved and revolting.

[QUOTE=Ousetunes]There's actually a simple way of avoiding pubs like this. Each one has a sign on the outside which says something like 'Buy one meal, get the second for half price', or 'Two meals for £5', words to that extent.

agreed - avoid all two for a fiver or bogof meal places - if they can do the food that cheap it must be low grade, frozen, microwaved and revolting.
I agree too! Aunt Sally is just another of the 'plastic pubs' with a false atmosphere and crap food.

Yes, and bad service ... it's a shame - I remember it used to (years ago) be quite a nice place to go on a summer weekend afternoon. There are hardly any decent pubs that do decent REAL food any more. They're all Ember Inn types with the same food in every one - microwaved horrible stuff. Grrrrrr :rant:

don't know if it still does but noahs ark in crookes used to do fantanstic homemade food that was dirt cheap.

i think it was something like 2 meals for a fiver but you chose the accompanyments and all side orders were a quid.

I will certainly be giving Aunt Sallys a wide berth - shame really as it looks a decent enough pub

I don't know why I do it to myself. It's next door to work so we frequent it quite often, mainly for a quick drink but occasionally for food. If you arrive after 12.30 at lunchtime in the week, forget being served in less than an hour. Don't ever go there if you're on a time limit.

A few weeks ago, boyf and a friend and I, plus friend's little one, went for tea. Waited best part of an hour, although we weren't in any rush and were busy chatting. However, I had to return 2 of my drinks (vodka and diet coke) as it was actually pernod and diet coke. Bizarrely, it came out of a Smirnoff bottle.

Today, the boyf and I went out for lunch. Off the top of my head and because it's not far, I suggested it. Stupid, I know. We were told 30-minute wait, so set ourselves up for at least an hour. Again, in no rush so not overly concerned. The bay-windowed area filled up around us so we all ordered at roughly the same time. We waited just about an hour. Only one woman was running around like a nutter apologising and giving out complimentary drinks. By the time we left, in fairness after a good hot meal, they were advising people that it was up to a 90-minute wait for food before they even ordered.

It's not brain surgery, they just don't have enough staff at peak times which, for a pub that serves all day, is all the time :rant:

Aunt Sally's is a total and utter "hole".

I have been there three times, and each time the food and service was awful.

I have refused to go back to that place since the dreadful meal my ex and I had in there, back in October 2004.

The meal was dire, and took forever to arrive.

My ex asked for the steak in his mixed grill "rare". It, like the rest of the charred remains that passed for food there, could not have been more "cremated" if it had been under a nuclear bomb blast.

My Granddaughter's meal was "chicken" :roll: "nuggets":roll: with chips and spaghetti. when it came, the "chicken" "nuggets" were so hard, (presumably they'd been microwaved for a couple of ours before our visit...?) that my ex could not cut into them with his steak-knife.

As the veggy selection was so poor, I had ordered fish, reluctantly, for my main course. When it arrived, it, too was burnt to a crisp.

Out of the kite-shaped piece of "fish" in batter, there was a small section of the "fish" flesh, which was "almost" edible, measuring about an inch in width, by about 2 inches in length, the rest of it was burnt, to a glassy clear rock-hard consistency.

When we pointed out the non-edible state of our food to a staff member, the response we got from him was a shrug, and a mumbled "Yeah ...?...and......???"

This was a Sunday, so we phoned the parent company immediately we could, the next morning, and complained.

The woman in Stoke who took the call was absolutely flabbergasted that the staff had been as bad as they had been. "You mean they didn't offer you a refund???? or even a complimentary dessert? Good grief! that's appalling!"

We recieved a few days later, a voucher for a free meal. Unfortunately, it was for use at Aunt Sally's. :roll: :roll: so I telephoned the company again, explaining that there was no way on earth we'd go back there, ever after our experience.

We arranged that we would send that voucher back by return of post, and they'd send us another voucher to the same value, to be used at Chequers, at Coal Aston. (Another gastropub in the 2-4-1 chain) A place where we had eaten in the past, and had been subjected to much better food and staff attitudes.