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a restauarent attached to a hotel in Great Barr
All the staff are first generation Italian (or at least speak English with very heavy accents),but they serve English food.
For 13 sterlings they served me a huge lump of pate that obviously was from a supermarket (the lump was the shape of the container it had been banged out of, served with three Jacobs cream crackers) to start
Main course was a steak. They didnt ask me how I wanted it and served it very very very well done. No steak knife and I literally couldnt cut it with the normal eating knife. On the side were two inedible onion rings (I didnt try them, you wouldnt have either if youd seen them) and some slightly burned chips. I asked for some sauce with my chips, 5 mins later a plate covered in sachets of sauce was slammed down on my table... the lady at a nearby table asked if she could have some sauce, so the waiter promptly took the plate away from me (before I'd actually taken any sauce of it) and gave it to her.
Table cloth filthy, chairs uncomfortable... staff rude to the point of physical aggression. I really should have refused to pay the bill but after the sauce thing I just left the money on the table and walked out.
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