The Tally Ho

Always good food at the Tally Ho along with friendly and efficient service. Good selection of beers, well kept. Added advantage that they allow well behaved dogs in the bar.
Apr 27th, 2023

Freshly made hot good service nice environment decor, polite staff
May 4th, 2023

Nice evening out, good meal, though like most pubs these days, the price of everything is expensive.
May 4th, 2023

I prefer a pub meal at the end of the day, not a designer handbag, but most pubs have gotten like this with their food. The ingredients in a dish don't make any sense with what you order. Example: pork belly: they mix random ingredients like olives and some strange sauce instead of just having nice pork belly and vegetables, etc. The taste of the meal after is a joke. Not a place to spend time in as the drinks and that together between two can cost you a telephone number after. And when you complain about the food, they don't help you by saying you shouldn't pay for it because it's horrible; they make you pay and just say sorry. I used to love visiting the pub, but the value of a meal is too small to end up hungry.
Apr 29th, 2023

Food - Mixed Service - Needs Improvement 11:45am booking on a Sunday (earliest possible). Upon arrival the young barman explained that the kitchen doesnt open until 12pm (quite sharply) but we can sit down anyway. No food menus available as they hadnt been printed yet. There was eventually confusion over the menus as some had printed with Sunday Roast and some hadnt. The lady who was printing them just said its going to be one of those days when questioned if we had the right menus or not. After 5/10 mins of being seated we werent sure whether to order drinks at table or bar? so we flagged someone down. They came to the table & we ordered drinks. Drinks arrived promptly and food orders taken at pretty much 12pm on the dot. We mustve been the 1st/2nd people to order. Starters arrived about 12:10. Starters were fine although way too much sauce on the side for us all (just a heads up to the restaurant for wastage reasons). Starters finished about 12:20. By 13:00pm our empty plates hadnt been cleared and we were still waiting on our mains. Tables around us who arrived significantly after us were being served. By this time we approached a waitress to find out what was happening but she seemed clueless but would check. 5 further minutes passed and she reappeared but only to talk to her colleagues, not to come to our table to explain the reason for the delay. At this point we approached the waitress who was unsure why A) our plates had not been cleared and B) because our plates hadnt been cleared it apparently meant that our mains were not started in the kitchen. We eventually received our meals about 70 minutes after initially ordering. Roast dinners were OK but quite expensive - about 23 each. One vegetarian Wellington that was sadly flavourless and quite dry. The waitress checked with a manager about our food delay (we didnt ask for this). For transparency we were initially offered complimentary deserts but as wed been kept waiting so long this wasnt appropriate. The waitress went and checked again and we were offered for our drinks to be complimentary - the drinks were all soft drinks so hardly a significant gesture. Maybe a more meaningful gesture wouldve been the starters to be complimentary. The manager was also nowhere to be seen - evidently far too busy to come See us. Such a shame as we had a fantastic experience at Xmas 2021 - possibly under new management now? For a Premium pub experience (prices were premium for a pub!) the service and food standard just wasnt there sadly. As a family enjoying a celebratory meal together wed choose elsewhere next time.
Apr 29th, 2023