Bromsgrove
The Cow On The Hill

The Cow On The Hill

Kidderminster Road, B61 9AB, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom

Cafés • Pizza • Steak • Asiatic


"We visited on 3 July with 2 other couples to celebrate my boyfriends birthday. The waiter dropped a g t over one of the guys we were with, which he just shrugged off, no apology, just asked if he wanted some more serviettes to mop up with. Service was very slow all night, the last couple to arrive were not offered a drink for around 20 minutes even after a drink had been dropped over him. Sourdough bread on the starter menu was not actually sourdough, the shortcrust pie turned out to be puff pastry the creamed spinach was like spinach soaked in milk. I asked one waitress for the bill, another young girl then appeared with the bill in her hand and very rudely said can you have the bill please I need to cash up, to which I replied that I had actually just asked for it. There are better ways she could have asked us if we wanted the bill! She then proceeded to stand over us while we decided how to split the bill etc. The waiter that dropped the drink came over and we asked what was going to be done to compensate, as I would at least expect that drink to be taken off the bill. He just replied , well I made you a fresh one didn’t i!! Wow. We asked to have the service charge removed from the bill as the appalling service didn’t warrant the amount on the bill. This then took nearly 20 minutes for them to figure out how to do it. Food was fine I recommend the sweet potato fries. But I will not be returning."

Bramblings

Bramblings

Hither Green Lane, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom

Steak • Cheese • Coffee • Ice Cream


"We were staying in the Abbey Hotel on a dinner bed and breakfast deal. We were able to choose from a 3 course menu all of which sounded very nice. Starters were OK, I had halloumi and beetroot but it was a little short on beetroot and overly sweet with balsamic. My husband had gravlak which he enjoyed. Both offered bread but had one bite and left it as it was stale. For mains I had chicken and mash with onions and green beans. It needed another veg on the plate and again was overly sweet with another heavy handed addition of balsamic. My husband had 'crispy ' pork belly the majority of the pork was inedible as rather than being crispy it was an un crisped layer of fat and rather unpleasant. For desert my husband had a chocolate tart which was ok. I ordered the special of strudel with ice cream. It was unfortunately not a strudel and not edible. It was a parcel of very hard filo pastry filled with what we suspect was left over tinned fruit from the breakfast buffet, a few currents and a lot of what we think was bread crumbs. It was awful and I left it all. Service was ok except one waitress kept squeezing behind my chair rather than walking round the table next to us. We were not asked how our meals were despite leaving some elements untouched, and weren 't offered a tea or coffee at the end of the meal we aren 't good at complaining and so didn 't raise the issues and regret this. My husband attempted to pay for his wine and the staff seemed unable to work the tills properly. We guess they must be new tills with the refurbishment. All in all we wouldn 't go back. Some elements were Ok but nothing was great and had we paid full price rather than as part of our hotel stay deal we would have been massively dissapointed."