Review of 'The Bonnie Prince'

The Bonnie Prince

166 Swarkeston Road
Chellaston
Derbyover cooked and had dried out somewhat.
DE75 5UE

 

 

 

We met friends here last week as it was midway between where we both live. We chose it because of its location and the fact that it has a soft play area as we were both with children.

It's part of the 'Hungry Horse' chain and has a large menu of 'pub classics'.

The children's menu is good and allows you to 'pick 'n' mix' different mains and sides.

 

Our children chose burgers with mash, salad and chips, one also had pasta with tomato sauce.

All of these seemed to be of a fair quality and size and were quickly 'wolfed down'.

The adults meals were a bit more hit and miss. My partner ordered beer battered fish and chips which looked good served on 'fake' newspaper with peas and tartare sauce, but the fish was overcooked and had dried out.

 

I went for a burger (pictured below) - it was a 'Jumpin' Jack Jalapeno Burger.

The bun was quite a soft brioche style one filled with a beefburger, chicken breast, cheese, onion rings and their own 'Jalapeno Inferno' sauce. It was all very tasty although the amount of chips on both meals was rather meagre -I think the children's meals had a similar amount!

 

The problem with the meal was the sauce, I like spicy food (that's why I'd ordered it?!) but it was ridiculously hot and ended up killing the rest of the taste of the meal, which was a shame.

The one problem on the day we visited was the service, things seemed quite muddled, after ordering ice creams for the children they seemed to 'loose' the order for quite some time and then did the same when we came to order the adult sweets. (which were quite poor- for the price). 

 

The other issue we had was with the soft play as even though there were nine of us paying for our dinner and drinks we still had to pay extra for it. the cost was £2.50 which is not too bad but it was just for one hour which seems a bit steep really

 

All in all it was ok for a snack or a drink but not somewhere I'd make a habit of visiting for food.