The Powder Mills - Rother

Most of the breakfast dishes were gluten-free, except for the sausages. They did not have gluten-free cereals but did provide gluten-free bread. In general, I felt that they made a good attempt.

Food was ok. Deep fried Camembert was delicious but to only get 5 pieces of calamari for £12 was deeply disappointing. Will take me a long time to get over that.

We really enjoyed our dinner with 6 friends on Saturday night. Our waitress Patricia was excellent, friendly and professional. There was a good selection of dishes and vegetarian in our group could also choose what they wanted. Wine list had good options from less expensive wines for £26 going up. My burger was very tasty with good quality meat!

Here is an example of a dining room punching well above its weight and with charges to match £55 for 3 course meal . The basic food choice on the menu is good and varied 3 meats, 2 fish and a couple of vegetarian dishes but the subtext reveals it is to be doctored with other incongruous ingredients by a clever chef perhaps to justify its boast of fine dining to the highest standard or its 2 rosettes. English good quality food, well prepared should not need to be embellished or enhanced . Service was slow. Delivered almost entirely by a young waitress who could only manage one speed, a Caesar salad took over an hour to serve. She had not been taught table service and admitted knowing nothing of wine. Earlier promise by Ray or Roy to host our experience evaporated, he was seen only fleetingly. Had he been more in evidence things might have been better. And, to add to the dismal experience 12.5% was added to the bill for service? Breakfast was good and nicely presented except that the fruit salad on the menu was absent. Although the ingredients were all there on the buffet, it seems no-one had been bothered to prepare it. So, if you go here to eat, I wish you a better experience. I shall not return.

A really good varied menu and everything we had was excellent especially the desserts which were amazing.