"Having been to Rigbys before and had excellant food and good portions, despite it being very busy. The only downside was when a couple arrived with a huge rottviler but were shown into another dining area, which allthough i thought was wrong to bring a dog into a resturant i thought ok one room for dogs, but still unhygenic. We booked early because it being a saturday night for my 75th birthday. We arrived at 6.15 to a desserted resturant, not good, we sat in the bar and ordered pre dinner drinks and looked at the menu. Then an elderly couple arrived with a very old lab, having just walked across the car park in the rain it had the smell of old wet dog, get us in the resturant away from this i thought. The waitress then showed us to our table in the lean to attached to the farmhouse, where 4 or 5 tables were set, next to us a table for 2, oh oh were going to get the dog next to us. The elderly couple complete with smelly dog were placed next to us, NOW if you want to eat a £28 steak meal next to a smelly dog then Rigbys is the place for you, but the best is yet to come, get ready. Another couple arrive with a cross poodle, where i am sat in the lean to i have a perfect view of the bar, the waitress then strokes the dog talks to the couple and then strokes the dog again, then goes behind the bar and serves three drinks to the table opposite us, unbelievable, no, because after serving the drinks she then goes back strokes and fusses the dog again then without washing her hands she goes into the kitchen for food and serves it. At this point my wife is begging me not to kick off. The meal arrives via unwashed doggy hands and my pidgeon breast is trying its best to look like a chicken breast, more meat on a butchers pencil springs to mind, the portions were small, after the meal sorry fiasco we were both still hungry. As soon as the meal/fiasco was over we went back into the bar where the wife asked for the bill, £48 was paid and we could not get out of the door quick enough never to return. I now know why it was desserted, it's gone downhill faster than Santa's sleigh."
