Breakfast Blues

The Vanguard is a Smith & Jones pub located at 64 West Street Fareham

The outside looks very stylish and up-to-date but unfortunately that’s where

the good points finish, I took my wife in here to have something to eat and on

appearance was expecting something rather nice. My wife found us a table and I

waited at the counter, and waited; and waited. Around twenty minutes later the

only member of staff working the counter served me. I ordered two lattes and

two full breakfasts. I took the drinks and sat down; this is where the problems

started. My latte was luke warm yet drinkable, but my wife’s latte was served

in a dirty glass! It had what I would describe as a tide ring around the

inside. So she went and got it exchanged and was aghast to see that nearly all

the glasses ready to have drinks served in were dirty. We waited for another

twenty minutes for the food to arrive, but that was ok, it gave me time to

clean the sticky table! Well there were only six items on the plate, what could

go wrong.1 Toast – Stone cold! But the butter for it was melted so when you

opened the wrapper the liquid ran everywhere 2 Eggs – These were really under

cooked the whites as well as the yolks and they reminded me of snot!

3 Sausages – These tasted like they were kept in a bains-marie as they were

poached and the skins had started to come off

4 Beans – Oh dear, I like beans but not when you spell beans. . . .B U L L E

T S absolutely awful

5 Bacon – This was also cooked hours before then kept in a bains-marie, it

tasted like rubber

We didn’t even reach the tomato, you never know it may have been brilliant,

but I doubt it

 By the time we had a poke around the

plate commenting to each other how disgusting it looked we had already decided

to leave, my wife asked to speak to the manager so we could complain and was

promptly told ‘he’s unloading a delivery lorry!’ Hmmm hands on role? There only

other positive point being that the young lady was more than happy to give us a

refund, I took a photo so you can see how much food was left

I wouldn’t recommend eating in this place; it’s not somewhere to go for

food. You never know it may be a great pub?