The Clarendon

The Clarendon’s ‘Yorkshire pudding wrapped roast dinner’ popped up on my Facebook feed via ‘Cool As Leicester’, I linked my sisters on the post and we decided to go. I didn’t realise this was a sports bar; should have when I made the reservation and the chap I spoke to had to check football wasn’t on as he couldn’t take a booking else…luckily for us it wasn’t.
When we arrived one sister panicked (or had a strop rather) about the sport on tv but there was no sound and some good music was playing so yay.
Three of us ordered the rump steak wrap and one the chicken. Our server was called Charlie and he was a credit to the establishment; charming, attentive, informative but not in your face. Charlie was an excellent server, one of the best I’ve had in a long time. Hats off to the kitchen team too, we all thoroughly enjoyed our meals, quite delicious, the drinks were also served in decent glassware which we sisters appreciated. I enjoyed the visit so much I’m going to take my husband and teen boys at some point.
The one thing I wasn’t sure about was the parking, I didn’t know where to park.

I acknowledge that not a lot of people were in the pub for football today, but as someone who was sitting right in front of the TV screen obviously not watching anything else at that time, I felt beyond offended and disrespected by your staff member switching channels in the middle of a game (half time was not even close) right beside me without any prior warning or any sort of communication. When I went up to the bar and asked the staff over there they simply said that ‘there are more rugby fans coming’.

I understand that not everyone goes to the pub for that particular game and rugby fans bring more profit on this particular day, but I also believe that your staff could have asked. This is a very disappointing visit due to the disgraceful behaviour of your staff and I do not think that I will ever visit the pub again.