ACQ            The Three Wheatsheafs

Beryl and I go to the Pensioners Luncheon Club at the Dinkirk Community Centre most Mondays.  But we were told last week that there was some other activity on at Dunkirk so the volunteers decided to have a lunch at the Three Wheatsheafs in Derby Road.  Local pubs in this part of Nottingham are generally cheap, so I expected similar prices at this pub.. As there was a party of about twenty five of us and we used the bog-standard seating, I expected the cost to be similar to what the Council-subsidised meal normally costs (£2.50 meal and sweet plus a cup of tea or coffee).

There were several choices and Beryl and I had fish and chips.  When I asked the organiser "how much" I was taken aback to be asked for six pounds fifty each.  The food was eatable but poor  Beryl and I decided to have a small sweet sherry each.  When it arrived it was in one of those miniature tumbles with about half an inch of liquid in the bottom.  Another one pound each.

Having has a gammon steak with all the trimmings at the Crown last week, and paying three pounds thirty INCLUDING half a pint of larger, I consider that even with a simple pudding with custard, we were being ripped off.  But one lives and learns   That's one pub that goes to the bottom of my list.  And they don't even have a car park worthy of the name.