The Village Inn

We visited The Village Inn, Liddington on a Thursday lunchtime. It's an Arkells pub that advertises Locally sourced, genuine home-cooked pub food. There were four of us and we ordered steak & ale pie with mash and veg, 6oz rump steak with chips and peas, and two Plato de Gambos. Service was prompt and polite.
The meals arrived in a reasonable timeframe. Three of the meals deserve mention and unfortunatley not positive. The steak was rare as ordered but burnt on the outside, the chips were cooked from frozen. The Plato de Gambas was advertised as crayfish tails, prawns, squid and white fish in a tomato and basil sauce, served with rice what arrived was something that looked like overcooked ratatouile on a bed of rice. Further investigation of my portion revealed a small amount of prawns, a crayfish tail, a couple of pieces of squid ring and a small piece of white fish. The other plate had slightly more squid and several pieces of meat, possibly chicken! The vegetables were mushy and tasteless, the squid like rubber and the prawns like bullets. We returned these meals to the bar as they were inedible and was asked to return to our table. A member of staff came over and offered us alternative meals, we opted for cheese and biscuits. The cheese was good and came a selection of crackers and butter.
Sometime after leaving the pub, the two diners who had the returned meals got upset tummies. We reported this to the pub, so they could address any issues. We were informed that these meals had been bought in and were frozen!