Monday, I did not make Philly’s Coffee & Sandwiches, try again today.
Two bus journeys, I was in time, a short wait, only one tiny tiny tiny problem, no Bus Pass and I was not paying for a bus when can travel for free.
Walk through Farnborough town centre, or what masquerades as a town centre, in reality a glorified shopping precinct on a sink social housing estate.
The coffee shop I thought closed, I find open, smokers sat outside. Maybe closes early or maybe not open on a a Monday. It does of course help to display opening hours.
Stomach churning stench from a couple of stalls, aka a tacky Christmas market. Do people really eat this crap? Passing numerous disgusting junk food outlets, I guess yes.
Then a huge mistake, lunch at Tilly Shilling, a J D Wetherspoon pub, the pits. The most disgusting steak I have ever been served, steak and chips. It used to be served with peas, tomato, mushroom and onion rings, but not anymore. If you wish for what used to be included, have to order gourmet steak. Gourmet is a much abused and maligned word, but this takes gourmet to a new low.
The streak must have been the cheapest cut of meat, without sourcing horse meat Wetherspoon could find. Sinews running through the steak, so tough even a steak knife could not cut it. The chips equally disgusting. Steak grilled straight from a fridge as could be seen by the striations, not allowed to reach room temperature.
No self-respecting chef serves this crap, no self-respecting chef would accept such poor quality meat.
Covid-biosecurity no existent: No hand sanitiser as walked in nor on the tables, tables not cleaned, beer rings on the table, staff not wearing masks.
It was then head west down a busy polluted road, ten minutes walk in the cold, to find Philly’s Coffee & Sandwiches closed, or at least it said closed in the window. Door was open. I asked could I have a coffee, otherwise not only a wasted journey, an entirely wasted afternoon.
No window, rotted and being replaced, freezing cold, but at least I had a coffee.
The only place in Farnborough serving drinkable coffee.
It then chucked it down with rain , I stayed chatting. Long past closing time, but until window finisheed, could not close.
Cold walk back, down a busy polluted road.
Popped in Sainsbury’s, more to get warm than I needed anything. The service in this store has always been bad, but it has gotten worse, only one till open. Where once a little cafe, boarded off.
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