Only had a coffee, but it was really superb.Parking: Parking just across the road, very convenient on what was a very chilly day.
jc_581016
I rarely write bad reviews but sadly on this occasion I wish I'd read the other reviews here first. This "servery" is in a prime position on the Quayside and when visiting last month I walked into town and really fancied a crab sandwich. The lady serving had just returned from the dentist when I arrived so, although I did sympathise as we chatted, I put her lack of engagement and her general attitude down to that, but other reviews now suggest otherwise. Anyway, I can forgive poor customer service - we all have off days - if the food is good. But..... I took the sandwich back to my flat, looking forward to a treat for lunch. So disappointing! Probably the worst crab sandwich I've had. Boring bread and a minimal scraping of crab.....and it cost £6.50! I just won't be returning (and I'm a regular visitor to the town). I am only glad that I decided to buy a pasty from a different outlet on the high street - that really was "truly scrumptious".
Paul Duffett
I was sold a ‘fresh’ crab sandwich for £6 and ate one quarter before noticing that the second quarter had a section of green mould clearly visible on the bread. On returning the remainder of the sandwich the proprietor swiftly took it from me and went away to the screened food preparation area where the mould was removed and I was told that it was never there!The lady claimed it was the seeds in the bread and when I asked where the section she had removed - the evidence - she denied all knowledge of it.My wife and I are adamant that a section of green mould was there - we are not fools - but the woman would have none of it.I was offered a replacement sandwich, but who in their right mind would take tha? No cash refund was offered.I only hope I don’t get ill after this.What got me most was the deliberate attempt at deception, despite numerous requests from me to see the mouldy section she had removed, she consistently denied it was ever there. Quite disgusting customer relations, the place should be shut down.
Lesley Kavi
Persistently rude lady. After several nasty responses we decided not to order. Avoid
CateandMike
This place is just awful. Rude lady serving, and the food is just horrid and a rip off. I can only assume it keeps going because tourists have not heard the rumours of just how terrible it is. Spread the word! Do not waste your money here.
Lesley K
We wanted to buy 2 crab sandwiches. I asked the usual questions you would normally ask when choosing one eg do you have brown bread? does it have mayo? do you take credit cards or prefer cash? Each enquiry was greeted with an extraordinarily and unprovoked rude response. We decided to leave without ordering and explained that we felt unable to proceed with the order due to her rudeness. We found the experience quite upsetting and were not surprised to later read the reviews below.
chuddy w
I ordered 2 crab sandwiches and a cheese and tomato baguette today at lunchtime. The, alleged female, creature running this appalling service vacuum was slow, rude and of repellant aspect. She refused to cut the baguette, in reality a roll, into two pieces due to ‘Trades Description Act’ strictures on describing half a roll as a ‘baguette’. This patent nonsense was followed by providing two crab sandwiches with so little crab in them that it resembled four pieces of bread, marginally spattered with butter and sparsely sprinkled with what looked like dandruff. It would take a burrowing electron microscope to have found anything which could be remotely labelled ‘crab’ on these sandwiches. They were appalling. On challenging this absurd huckster with the evidence of this blatant fraud, in front of a short queue of dead-eyed plebs who ignored my plea to boycott obvious sub-criminal incompetence, it said, ‘Thank you. Goodbye, come back again soon’. My apologies if I have used the wrong pronouns for this indication of the paucity of service in Brexit Britain.
stephen d
The most awful crab sandwich I have ever had. The bread was dry and the crab filling almost non existent. It was more like a mayonnaise sandwich. The lady serving was rude. A poor representative of Lymington. I will never go there again.
Catherine Wilson
Awful. Crab sandwich was dire, I would be embarrassed to have served that to anyone. Incredibly rude lady serving. I’m so cross I spent my money there. Never again.
Awful, expensive, nasty. Smelt the pasties on the way past so stopped. My husband had a regular pasty which was ok ish although expensive. They’d run out of vegetarian although still advertising and only veggie option was a cheese sandwich ( rude owner asked how much of a veggie I was) Sandwich was honestly two slices of cheap sliced brown bread, dry and past its best, thin layer of grated cheese and yet cost an extortionate £5!!!! Disgraceful way to rip people off, we still can’t believe how bad it was!
Joanne Skinner
Incredibly rude woman!Very expensive crab sandwiches/baguettes. No salad although she offered to the couple in front of us but apparently they were offered because they are her friends! Also told you don’t need salad. The crab was so sparse it didn’t even reach every bit of the bread. Very dry and disappointing and yes it really did need salad. Only takes cash and when I went back to complain she’d shut shop.
Kerry James
Lovely prawns but needs more filling baguette and butter terrible. Ham and baguette dry lovely tomatoe and 2 waters needed a mortgage - poor value for money should have gone to greggs
Sue Bryant
Absolutely shocking. Rude owner - I asked where did she source her fish from, and she replied “where do you think?!, I shouldn’t have bothered getting out of bed this morning!! “. Stale thin bread, tasteless sandwich. We wanted to support local businesses, but don’t go to this one!!
Crab sandwich anyone? Cash only, don’t tell HMRC!! ?
Only had a coffee, but it was really superb.Parking: Parking just across the road, very convenient on what was a very chilly day.
I rarely write bad reviews but sadly on this occasion I wish I'd read the other reviews here first. This "servery" is in a prime position on the Quayside and when visiting last month I walked into town and really fancied a crab sandwich. The lady serving had just returned from the dentist when I arrived so, although I did sympathise as we chatted, I put her lack of engagement and her general attitude down to that, but other reviews now suggest otherwise. Anyway, I can forgive poor customer service - we all have off days - if the food is good. But..... I took the sandwich back to my flat, looking forward to a treat for lunch. So disappointing! Probably the worst crab sandwich I've had. Boring bread and a minimal scraping of crab.....and it cost £6.50! I just won't be returning (and I'm a regular visitor to the town). I am only glad that I decided to buy a pasty from a different outlet on the high street - that really was "truly scrumptious".
I was sold a ‘fresh’ crab sandwich for £6 and ate one quarter before noticing that the second quarter had a section of green mould clearly visible on the bread. On returning the remainder of the sandwich the proprietor swiftly took it from me and went away to the screened food preparation area where the mould was removed and I was told that it was never there!The lady claimed it was the seeds in the bread and when I asked where the section she had removed - the evidence - she denied all knowledge of it.My wife and I are adamant that a section of green mould was there - we are not fools - but the woman would have none of it.I was offered a replacement sandwich, but who in their right mind would take tha? No cash refund was offered.I only hope I don’t get ill after this.What got me most was the deliberate attempt at deception, despite numerous requests from me to see the mouldy section she had removed, she consistently denied it was ever there. Quite disgusting customer relations, the place should be shut down.
Persistently rude lady. After several nasty responses we decided not to order. Avoid
This place is just awful. Rude lady serving, and the food is just horrid and a rip off. I can only assume it keeps going because tourists have not heard the rumours of just how terrible it is. Spread the word! Do not waste your money here.
We wanted to buy 2 crab sandwiches. I asked the usual questions you would normally ask when choosing one eg do you have brown bread? does it have mayo? do you take credit cards or prefer cash? Each enquiry was greeted with an extraordinarily and unprovoked rude response. We decided to leave without ordering and explained that we felt unable to proceed with the order due to her rudeness. We found the experience quite upsetting and were not surprised to later read the reviews below.
I ordered 2 crab sandwiches and a cheese and tomato baguette today at lunchtime. The, alleged female, creature running this appalling service vacuum was slow, rude and of repellant aspect. She refused to cut the baguette, in reality a roll, into two pieces due to ‘Trades Description Act’ strictures on describing half a roll as a ‘baguette’. This patent nonsense was followed by providing two crab sandwiches with so little crab in them that it resembled four pieces of bread, marginally spattered with butter and sparsely sprinkled with what looked like dandruff. It would take a burrowing electron microscope to have found anything which could be remotely labelled ‘crab’ on these sandwiches. They were appalling. On challenging this absurd huckster with the evidence of this blatant fraud, in front of a short queue of dead-eyed plebs who ignored my plea to boycott obvious sub-criminal incompetence, it said, ‘Thank you. Goodbye, come back again soon’. My apologies if I have used the wrong pronouns for this indication of the paucity of service in Brexit Britain.
The most awful crab sandwich I have ever had. The bread was dry and the crab filling almost non existent. It was more like a mayonnaise sandwich. The lady serving was rude. A poor representative of Lymington. I will never go there again.
Awful. Crab sandwich was dire, I would be embarrassed to have served that to anyone. Incredibly rude lady serving. I’m so cross I spent my money there. Never again.
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Awful, expensive, nasty. Smelt the pasties on the way past so stopped. My husband had a regular pasty which was ok ish although expensive. They’d run out of vegetarian although still advertising and only veggie option was a cheese sandwich ( rude owner asked how much of a veggie I was) Sandwich was honestly two slices of cheap sliced brown bread, dry and past its best, thin layer of grated cheese and yet cost an extortionate £5!!!! Disgraceful way to rip people off, we still can’t believe how bad it was!
Incredibly rude woman!Very expensive crab sandwiches/baguettes. No salad although she offered to the couple in front of us but apparently they were offered because they are her friends! Also told you don’t need salad. The crab was so sparse it didn’t even reach every bit of the bread. Very dry and disappointing and yes it really did need salad. Only takes cash and when I went back to complain she’d shut shop.
Lovely prawns but needs more filling baguette and butter terrible. Ham and baguette dry lovely tomatoe and 2 waters needed a mortgage - poor value for money should have gone to greggs
Absolutely shocking. Rude owner - I asked where did she source her fish from, and she replied “where do you think?!, I shouldn’t have bothered getting out of bed this morning!! “. Stale thin bread, tasteless sandwich. We wanted to support local businesses, but don’t go to this one!!
Really lovely hot Cornish pasty to take away