The White Horse Inn

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• Expensive and becoming more and more empty

  We popped in the White Horse recently having not been for a while. The place was empty, which for an area like this is strange. However the reason soon became clear when we bought a pint of carling and a white wine and was confronted with a bill of £9. With many pubs in the area cutting costs of drinks to help in the recession, this place seems to have put them up. Just down the road is a gorgeous pub called the Bulls Head in Meriden where we usually go mid week. It’s always busy and you often have to wait to find a seat or table to eat. However a pint of carling there is £2.60, while the White horse is charging £3.10. Which means the wine is about £6 a glass.Unless they do a bit of local re-search and see there are equally nice pubs with an equally lovely ambience just down the road serving drinks at a lot less, and those places are getting busier and busier, the White Horse may be yet another casualty of the credit crunch.

  Gord59
  Review Date: 11/09/2009 Report review
• Lukewarm

  We had been to the White Horse shortly after it had opened and had a reasonable, if not outstanding, meal. So, on Sunday we decided to give it another go. It was, admittedly, the day after Valentine's Day, so expectedly quite. The place itself is spacious and well-presented, but lacks a certain ambience. We were seated in the rear section on our own (the by-product of bringing our three children, I presume). Anyway, the waiting staff were ok, if a little overwhelming - I think, possibly, there were just too many of them looking for something to do. The menu wasn't very adventurous and having eaten at their sister restaurants (Metro etc), I expected more exciting options. We played safe (we thought) and had Sunday lunch and the children had sausage and mash and fishfingers. The childrens' meals were far superior to the adult main courses. Our food was tepid, the gravy like dishwater, and the roast potatoes barely warm. However, it was edible and frankly not worth sending it back when trying to also eat and feed/occupy the boys simultaneously. The vegetables were the best part - sugar snaps, leeks, carrots - very spring-like and crunchy. We ate it in record time before it could get any colder.The boys shared a treacle tart for pudding - and there is only one way a tart gets that hot in the middle and soggy on the outside in the time it took to appear - the microwave oven.Unfortunately, the food just isn't good enough. Firstly, it needs to be hot and secondly, ditch the (all to obvious) usage of the microwave oven. What a pity.

  Aloysius
  Review Date: 11/02/2009 Report review