Ego at The Flying Fox, Woburn

Absolute delicious food, a good price, great service and very importantly, very clean. Friendly staff (thank you Ella,) and a calm, busy gentle atmosphere. We will definitely come back in the week to try other dishes. The image was in the middle of a full Sunday service.

Sadly we won't be returning. 4 of us had booked a table at 1245 for a Sunday lunch. 2 of us had pate for starter. In my entire life as a chef I have never had runny Patè (obviously left under the warm lights too long) and the bread to patè ratio was abysmal as was the presentation. 2 pots and 3 slices of mediocre bread and a knife. Another of us had a Broccoli and Stilton soup which again was mediocre. No sense of presentation like a sprinkle of olive oil and maybe a few chunks of actual Stilton 🤔 The other had kofters which were apparently good (thankfully) Onto the main. We all stuck to the roasts, 2 of us had a trio of meat ( more about that in a bit) 1 had roast chicken the other beef. My "trio" came with a good chunk of chicken, a slice of roast beef (rather grisly) and the smallest piece of what I think was pork (see pic). The other plates of meat were just acceptable but that's where it ended. All our vegetables were just warm as were the "roast potatoes" (as if they saw any roasting) parsnips were cold inside and undercooked as were ther carrots. The red cabbage was disgusting 🫣 and 99.9% sure it was mixed with Chinese 5 spice. No, do NOT do that. It DID NOT taste good. We asked for some extra gravy due each plate only being shown a gravy portion that couldn't cover 2 piece of beef and although a small pot was bought we asked for another which never showed. Wr had also ordered a cauliflower cheese which turned up swimming in whatbwas supposed to be a cheese sauce but was obviously out of a packet. Absolutley disgusting. A young lad came and asked us if everything was OK and obviously we told him the issues. He did apologise and said he'd tell his manager. He came back and said "I know you've basically finished but would you like some hot veg and potatoes?" We politely declined. On top of all of that the epitome of sacrilegious behaviour was the Yorkshire puddings were all burnt and again Luke warm (and I'm being polite). All in all NOT a good experience unfortunately. And no we were not offered any sort of compensation, in fact the manager never even come and spoke with us or the people behind us that were also complaining. And lastly the gentleman in the waistcoat working at the lecturn, maybe smile and make an effort with the customers and if you say you're not serving roast dinners outside then stick to that ruling.

For the third time, my wife and I have left the Flying Fox without service or any recognition of having waited at the bar for a food and beverage order. It is not a lack of staff, as the place was teeming with staff. In fact there were 4 people behind the bar and only us on the customer side. No attempts to serve. Indeed one of the staff was more interested in filling a dog bowl with water despite us having stood waiting for a considerable time. Just deflective glances. This is the third time. Just not good enough at all.