Harvester The George Inn - Morden

We often go to The George for a catch up between friends. There is a large free car park (register inside the restaurant), the service us usually cheerful and fairly speedy. Tonight's salad bar was a bit disappointing, no beetroot, sweetcorn or potato salad, but I did prefer the bread rolls to the ones that are usually there. My main was chicken breast (slightly overcooked) with jacket potato, ratatouille and peas. Very delicious and filling. For dessert, it was a shame that the mini apple crumble with a drink is no longer on the menu, but now just the brownie or ice cream and a drink instead. A pot of tea, main, salad bar and dessert came to £22, which all said and done is quite reasonable.

The coleslaw was sour, asked for another bowl to refresh my salad, tried a different coleslaw that was sour too, otherwise fine

We arrived at the Harvester (George Inn) and the gentleman at the door checked us in. He passed the menus on a very inexperienced member of staff with maybe a couple of shifts under their belt. He escorted us upstairs, where he didn't know where table 63 was  The area was very stuffy, hot and uncomfortfable, lacking of fresh air and no air conditioning. Twenty minutes or more passed before anyone came to take our order.    The starters arrived before the drinks. We asked for tap water, we never got it, we asked for sparkling water we got still, eventually the wine arrived.  The wine asked for was not available and we got given another one but no glasses which we then had to ask for.  The main course arrived, of which the child's rump steak was a bundle of grizzle, and had to be returned.  We then got given two glasses for the wine and had to ask   for two more.  When they arrived the staff member said (we have only two wine glasses, I have to give you two Gin glasses instead). The salad bar was a bit if a mess and many items empty. The bill took several attempts of back and forth to get it sorted, and ridiculously we got asked if wanted to leave a tip.  Unfortunately we couldn't leave a tip for such an appalling experience. We have used this Harvester (George Inn, Morden) since its first opening 40 years ago and its gradually got worse and worse.  It needs to go back to basics and train the staff properly and hopefully can be pulled back up to the standard it once was.

The food was good value for money. Our waitress was very welcoming and efficient. She made our family meal special.

It was lovely but we was given the bill before we asked so felt rushed to leave