ASHLEY'S, GOODWOOD

Date:  2 February 2010
Hosts:  Lisa & Schalk
Group:  12 ppl

So...do I start with the food or the restaurant?

Lets do food first.  They have specials on every day of the week - everything from Seafood to Livers &; Mash.  Tuesdays specials are 500g ribs with chips and the liver with mash - GREAT value for money however I still can't get myself to like the idea of eating livers. Starters were good, although a shrimp cocktail is just not the same when there's no avo (did i not see tons of avocado's in the shops?), the snails looked lovely and I was very happy when I saw that they actually give 2 skewers for the mushroom starter :-D Mains were big portions and only half of us actually managed to finish our food - very uncommon for our group.  Fillet Royale - Delicious! but also very rich so be prepared.  They didn't have any pork schnitzel available, but the veal schnitzel was good.  Pasta's were lovely. (sorry guys no pics of the food this time round as we all managed to forget our cameras at home - the exception being Rita who only 'discovered' her camera while we were having after dinner drinks lol)

Then I suppose we're onto the Restaurant then...
It's a typical family restaurant.  They seated us at tables of 4 next to each other - we couldn't push the tables and benches together as no one would have been able to get out unless the whole row gets up.  This was therefor not a very social dinner as you could only really speak to the 3 other people at your table.  Being a dinner club - we like to be social and catch up on what everyone's been up to over the last month. This is also why I can't really comment on everyone's food, as I had no idea what food was ordered by the table on the other end.
Their ladies toilets were definitely not cleaned regularly (I'm not even calling it a restroom)- both basins were blocked and half full with dirty water, the towel roll to dry our hands was also sopping wet - needless to say, we were not impressed.

The overall service was good except for 1 or 2 problems with orders that came out wrong. 
Ashleys is what it is - a family restaurant with great daily specials.