9.5/10. An excellent performance from The New Inn. The meal was extremely good, a very healthily sized plate where all ingredients were inside a huge Yorkshire pudding. Meat was good, roasts were up there with the best and a generous helping of veg. Gravy amounts were about right and all in all a brilliant dinner! Service was top quality, the best we have had so far in fact! We thought this might have been because they had cottoned on to what we are doing, impressive if so! The ambiance was exactly what you look for in a pub too, not too loud but enough people to make an atmosphere. Also, everyone there really looked like they were thoroughly enjoying themselves and could stay there for the whole day! (the guy who was asleep at a table especially!) One downside was that they didn't have enough roasts for everyone. X-factor contestant: Wagner, everyone loves it!Jim Gardner
Score 9.5. Hindsight is normally a virtue in these sorts of situations, but in this case, foresight is the real winner here. A good experience was expected and all was delivered at The New Inn. Any pub playing a football match filled with, well, just one fanatical fan, screaming at every goal and general chanting and shouting could have been annoying, but sort of worked this time. Incredibly attentive staff, with fast service and great banter made you feel at home (one guy felt so much at home he fell asleep, and then woke up, coughed and went back to sleep again. Where else can you find that level of comfort). The food, all 3 courses of it, was top dollar. The roast itself: roast half a chicken. Huge portions, but not in an intimidating way. The chicken was truly roasted (or grilled, or barbequed, but def not microwaved, it looked proper). The pile of potatoes and giant yorkshire just sealed the deal. My meal was perfect. Being picky, as always, there were too many peas, but enough plate to scrape them away onto, and there weren't actually enough roasts to go around, but seeing as I got mine I couldn't care less. Music was good, food was great, atmospehere perfect. No jokes this week. It doesn't deserve mockery. The New Inn, I salute you. Matt Small
8 and a half- Such a chilled atmosphere, punters obviously felt very 'at home' there, one even demonstrated this by having a little nap.
Points were going to be deducted for incorrect information given by chelsea fan on next table with regards to soup variety. However he provided so much entertainment, and the grease platter which we both had instead of soup was bloody good, so going to let this slide.
They ran out of veg and claimed they had run out of roast dinners, good customer service for not just giving veg-less dinners? Or simply not good enough that they ran out?
Excellent service, the young barman was very accommodating (this possibly may have been because he knew we were part of Lesbioke). Also he didn’t seem the sharpest knife in the draw, seeing as he could have given us a roast with peas! (which was actually about the only veg jack seemed to get)
Great value dinner,both of us loved the yorkshire pud, the ample number of peas, and the sausages and mash were very nice. However we both felt there was just not enough gravy for our liking, we are gravy fans.
When it came to pudding Emma was happy to just have half a portion of custard as this was all they had, however when it came the chef had aparently 'watered it down so that there was more'. Even as a skimmed milk girl I don't find this very logical.
Overall excellent food, great customer service, good value for money, nicely decorated pub. Emily Waterfall & Emma Steele
Incredible, to say the least. A sublime setting: comfortable, spacious seating with contemporary decor. The atmosphere was great - enhanced in particular by a singular football fan shouting at the telly and another guy just having a nap. How many pubs would let you sleep on the premises?! The staff were excellent - very friendly - great banter. Had a soup for starters which came in generous portion with warm bread. The roast dinner itself was served in a massive Yorkshire pudding, which wasn't soggy unlike some of the others we've experienced like this. Veg was plentiful and varied. Amount of Gravy was - dare I say it - spot on, and the potatoes were great. Very little room for improvement to be honest. Top notch. 9.7 Michael Blades
Atmosphere in the New Inn was charming, it wasn't intimidatingly posh, but it had a sense of class about it that other pubs on the Otley Run universally lack. So far, it's looking good. The barman couldn't understand me, and he used a joke from Lost in Translation about how I spoke too quietly. It wasn't funny when Scarlet Johanson said it, and it wasn't when he said it. Minus points...
The food arrives, and I have to say, the starter sharer platter, kicked ass. The actual roast dinner itself was pretty good. Giant Yorkshire that was better than Oak makes up for the bad jokes served at the bar. The veg was pretty standard, but it went down fine. I'm still waiting to see some good roast potatos in our ongoing mission, but at least they weren't soggy. The beef was probably the best I've tried so far, so this is obviously a strong contender for me.
If it wasn't for the bar man, we'd be talking 9.5. As Sammy J says in Pulp Fiction: 'say what again mother fucker, I dare you, I double dare you.' 8.5. Jack Madden
9.5/10. An excellent performance from The New Inn. The meal was extremely good, a very healthily sized plate where all ingredients were inside a huge Yorkshire pudding. Meat was good, roasts were up there with the best and a generous helping of veg. Gravy amounts were about right and all in all a brilliant dinner! Service was top quality, the best we have had so far in fact! We thought this might have been because they had cottoned on to what we are doing, impressive if so! The ambiance was exactly what you look for in a pub too, not too loud but enough people to make an atmosphere. Also, everyone there really looked like they were thoroughly enjoying themselves and could stay there for the whole day! (the guy who was asleep at a table especially!) One downside was that they didn't have enough roasts for everyone. X-factor contestant: Wagner, everyone loves it! Jim Gardner
Score 9.5. Hindsight is normally a virtue in these sorts of situations, but in this case, foresight is the real winner here. A good experience was expected and all was delivered at The New Inn. Any pub playing a football match filled with, well, just one fanatical fan, screaming at every goal and general chanting and shouting could have been annoying, but sort of worked this time. Incredibly attentive staff, with fast service and great banter made you feel at home (one guy felt so much at home he fell asleep, and then woke up, coughed and went back to sleep again. Where else can you find that level of comfort). The food, all 3 courses of it, was top dollar. The roast itself: roast half a chicken. Huge portions, but not in an intimidating way. The chicken was truly roasted (or grilled, or barbequed, but def not microwaved, it looked proper). The pile of potatoes and giant yorkshire just sealed the deal. My meal was perfect. Being picky, as always, there were too many peas, but enough plate to scrape them away onto, and there weren't actually enough roasts to go around, but seeing as I got mine I couldn't care less. Music was good, food was great, atmospehere perfect. No jokes this week. It doesn't deserve mockery. The New Inn, I salute you.
Matt Small
8 and a half- Such a chilled atmosphere, punters obviously felt very 'at home' there, one even demonstrated this by having a little nap. Points were going to be deducted for incorrect information given by chelsea fan on next table with regards to soup variety. However he provided so much entertainment, and the grease platter which we both had instead of soup was bloody good, so going to let this slide. They ran out of veg and claimed they had run out of roast dinners, good customer service for not just giving veg-less dinners? Or simply not good enough that they ran out? Excellent service, the young barman was very accommodating (this possibly may have been because he knew we were part of Lesbioke). Also he didn’t seem the sharpest knife in the draw, seeing as he could have given us a roast with peas! (which was actually about the only veg jack seemed to get) Great value dinner,both of us loved the yorkshire pud, the ample number of peas, and the sausages and mash were very nice. However we both felt there was just not enough gravy for our liking, we are gravy fans. When it came to pudding Emma was happy to just have half a portion of custard as this was all they had, however when it came the chef had aparently 'watered it down so that there was more'. Even as a skimmed milk girl I don't find this very logical. Overall excellent food, great customer service, good value for money, nicely decorated pub.
Emily Waterfall & Emma Steele
Incredible, to say the least. A sublime setting: comfortable, spacious seating with contemporary decor. The atmosphere was great - enhanced in particular by a singular football fan shouting at the telly and another guy just having a nap. How many pubs would let you sleep on the premises?! The staff were excellent - very friendly - great banter. Had a soup for starters which came in generous portion with warm bread. The roast dinner itself was served in a massive Yorkshire pudding, which wasn't soggy unlike some of the others we've experienced like this. Veg was plentiful and varied. Amount of Gravy was - dare I say it - spot on, and the potatoes were great. Very little room for improvement to be honest. Top notch. 9.7
Michael Blades
Atmosphere in the New Inn was charming, it wasn't intimidatingly posh, but it had a sense of class about it that other pubs on the Otley Run universally lack. So far, it's looking good. The barman couldn't understand me, and he used a joke from Lost in Translation about how I spoke too quietly. It wasn't funny when Scarlet Johanson said it, and it wasn't when he said it. Minus points...
The food arrives, and I have to say, the starter sharer platter, kicked ass. The actual roast dinner itself was pretty good. Giant Yorkshire that was better than Oak makes up for the bad jokes served at the bar. The veg was pretty standard, but it went down fine. I'm still waiting to see some good roast potatos in our ongoing mission, but at least they weren't soggy. The beef was probably the best I've tried so far, so this is obviously a strong contender for me.
If it wasn't for the bar man, we'd be talking 9.5. As Sammy J says in Pulp Fiction: 'say what again mother fucker, I dare you, I double dare you.' 8.5.
Jack Madden