Mill Tavern - Chichester

Vegan roast is just veggie roast with missing items and the same price that is disappointed, but very tasty is updated by previous review on 2021-11-14

We’ve been to The Mill several times and always had reasonably good food there, so took a friend there for dinner on Sat night. There were two issues this visit. Firstly on arrival we could barely get through the door it was rammed around the entrance part of the bar with young drinkers. Apparently a younger crowd who have allegedly been barred from three other pubs in Haslemere are now descending on the Mill at weekends to drink. We thought we’d walked into a private party. No effort seemed to be made to get these groups away from the door. We couldn’t check in at the bar like usual and we’re left hanging around like spare parts until we got someone’s attention. The noise in the main dining room was not conducive to a pleasant meal and conversation. After asking we were moved to the room around the corner. The Mill really needs to tackle this quickly otherwise they are going to lose diners. Secondly food not up to scratch and portion size, specifically of the mussels, was very mean. Some of our food was lukewarm when it turned up. And you are going to sell mussels on the menu as a main course you really need to be serving more than 11 of them I counted. Go back to offering smaller starter and larger main portions £10.95/£17.95 respectively) or move the mussels to starter menu to avoid disappointment. On a positive note, the pie was excellent and the waitress was lovely and did her very best to improve our experience. Hence the two stars. I’m not sure we’ll be back for dinner again, lunch time might be a safer bet.

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