The World’s End

After a refurb the place looks lovley with a nice outside area, and good beer. The only thing that let’s the place down the food, since they have gone down the road of gastro pub you would have thought this would be the most important thing, when I got there very plesent staff and very effecient when my «home made» pâté arived I had to point out to the staff that the chef had left some of the packet it came in on… not what you would expect from a gastro pub I wounder what else is brought in do they make there own food to eat that sort of food may aswell go to a 2 for a10 place as you can tell I was not impressed!

never been in there but knows someone who worked on building site doing this place up,.
did anyone know the original walls are made of straw-​mud, oliver cromwell was to do with this place too, so fame at last eh, mind you northamptonshire is steeped in history.
once i go in to this place i’ll give my opinion,
thx,
bodicea
17^th sept 09 8.52am

This pub was refurbished a few years back to an exceptionally high standard with the addition of an annexe housing ’boutique’ bedrooms for those wanting an overnight stay.
The pub area is light and airy, the staff are pretty friendly and the range of drinks is quite large including some of the larger names of real ales. There’s also the option to eat in the bar area or in the huge terrace area at the rear, which has the large European café style of canopies and gas heaters.
Having been to the restaurant at the World’s End around five or six times over the last few years, there’s certainly a small element of hit or miss when it comes to consistency of quality of food leaving the kitchen from time to time.
Sunday lunch there is pretty good value, at under ten Pounds and is fresh and generally tasty. We’ve had a couple of issues where not all of the party’s meals arriving at the same time — but the staff are always polite and resolve to the best of their ability. They even offered to knock one meal off the bill for not getting it out at the same time — but this wasn’t necessary and we paid the value to them as part of the tip for handling the issue so well.
Occasionally the steaks do let this place down. It’s a shame as 90% of the time they’re wonderful, tasty and juicy and not at all overpriced, ranging from around £15 for the rump up to £20 for the fillet. Just paying a little more attention to the consistency in quality of the meat will sort this out, but when it’s right (and it is 90% of the time) they are very very nice indeed.
The grazing boards are excellent for a light informal snack, if a little on the pricy side for what you get.
The home comforts from the menu offer home-​style foods, such as fish and chips (little too bony perhaps) sausage and mash (recommended) and an excellent steak burger which is very good indeed.
On the whole, the atmosphere, service, and food are perhaps an eight out of ten, but a little too often the amount of customers can make the service and food slip to a six.
And if you get a table next to the entrance to the toilets, ask to move! The door bangs shut with an almighty force, which will drive you potty (no pun intended) by the time you leave!
But on the whole, not bad, worth a visit or two.