Monday, July 19, 2010

The Park Hotel, 114 Exeter Road, Exmouth, Devon EX8 1QH

I visited this pub 2 weeks ago on a Sunday for a roast dinner.  The pub menu is replaced by a roast dinner menu on Sundays.  I opted for pork.  Beef and Chicken were the other choices on this particular Sunday.

 

A soup is included with the meal which costs £7 in total.  The Mushroom soup was tasty but a little watery.  The pork was perhaps a little thin but there was plenty of it.  There was also a decent amount of crackling.  The potatoes were quite crispy and fluffy in the middle.  They were well above average for a pub.  The roast was served with peas, carrots,  parsnip and swede mash and cabbage.

 

This was a well rounded roast at a good price.  The meat was rather thin and perhaps a little dry.  The vegetables were not overcooked but they were a little plane.  This was a simple but well cooked roast.  I like something a little more imaginative  myself but at the price it’s hard to grumble.  If you like your roasts traditional and quite simple then this could be the roast dinner for you.  I would certainly go to the park hotel for dinner again though I wouldn’t make a special journey to Exmouth for it.

 

I would give it 7 out of 10 because the quality was generally quite high and it was great value for money.  Thicker meat and a little imagination would have really increased the mark here as the roast potatoes were a highlight and roast potatoes are often the most disappointing part of a Sunday roast.

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