The Barley Mow - Farnham

This is a traditional pub with traditional food. Loved the beer here, not had that one before. Also loved the steak and onion sandwich with chips! The bar woman was lovely and friendly and this is a dig friendly place. Our dog got a lot of attention I have to say! Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

OMG. Thank you for a wonderful evening. The welcome of the staff and the regulars was amazing. Then the food if you live close by, go and support the pub. Thank you again for making me so welcome. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: £20–30 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Recommended dishes: Amstel

I had gone to the barley mow before never had a problem. When we came in this time we had hair in our food which doesn’t make us feel reassured that their hygiene in the kitchen isn’t great. Price per person: £1–10 Food: 3 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 2

Where to start! Normally, if I have nothing nice to say, I tend to say nothing! However, the waste of money and rude comment at the end of a bad evening in this place, has been playing on my mind, so I am going to be honest and relay our experience as it happened. We were holidaying in the area, spotted this quaint looking pub and decided to go in for dinner. We received a friendly welcome from the lady working behind the bar. We sat out in their nice garden as the weather was fab. The lady came promptly, served our drinks and took our order. We had a busy day exploring and were all starving! Two of us ordered what the menu described as a pasta with prawns and seabass, in a creamy white wine sauce . One ordered battered fish and chips and sausage and chips was ordered for a child. The food was delivered to the table very quickly. Perhaps too quickly for anything to have been freshly cooked. But that could be acceptable. We have all had frozen or pre-prepared food. It 's not the end of the world! and we were all so hungry that we were very open minded. Frozen, packet, even tinned would have done, if it was edible! Unfortunately, the food was awful and would you believe? it was actually inedible! I have never been in that position before. Where every member of our group found the food so disgusting, that none of us could eat it! Imagine! 3 adults and one child, all unable to tolerate the taste. We all tried, because of hunger and well, you just do don 't you! When food is served, even if you don 't find it particularly tasty, you still manage to pick away at it and make a fair impression on the plate. We couldn 't! Seriously it was terrible. The pasta was tasteless, mushy, clacky, the prawns were rubbery and cold. The white wine mentioned on the menu, might have helped to cover the awful taste, but they must have forgotten to add that. The battered fish had a very strange taste and the raw gloopy flour oozing from under the outer coating was simply too off to eat. Even the child 's sausage and chips tasted terrible. Maybe the oil needed changing? I don 't know. But when child wouldn 't eat it and we couldn 't eat ours, we all dived on his chips! Big mistake. They were not good. I actually felt embarrassed when the lady came to the table to do a service check. All the plates were full. So I apologised! I said I was really sorry, but none of us could eat the food as we did not like the taste. I guess what has egged me on to report our experience, was her response. Oh I 'm sorry and off she went! She didn 't care to find out what was wrong, why an entire group of 4, with 3 different dishes, did not eat any of the food. She didn 't make any effort to see if she could rectify the situation, offer a slice of toast, a drink, nothing. That left a bitter taste. We paid the same lady, who made no further apology and we left. Then to add insult to injury, as we were walking to our car, through the hedge we saw and heard a different member of staff, I presume the cook, giving out about the waste of food at our table! She was asking who did we think we were and what did we expect, that it was a f.....g pub! No embarrassment there on her part! Did she think that her customers went away happy with that waste of food? It would have been more palatable if we had heard her cringing at the waste of money for those customers! It 's a poor show when you sit in one establishment for dinner, eat absolutely nothing, pay for it, walk out like it 's our fault! and then have to go and find somewhere else to eat on the way home. So anyway folks, in a nutshell! Zero stars for The Barley Mow if I could. We can all have an off day in the kitchen! But own up to it and don 't blame the customer!

Service: Dine in Meal type: Lunch Price per person: £20–30 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Recommended dishes: Fish and Chips