Oakley Grange Farm - Charnwood

Been here a few times and always seem to regret it when the bill comes out. Working farm is a good atmosphere, nice food, OK staff, eye wateringly expensive prices to the point you're better off going somewhere ANYWHERE else. Decided now won't be going back.

Been dropping here a few years now for brunch, what has happened? This time the welcome and service was terrible, the table we were seated at outside had dirty cutlery and serviettes strewn on the floor (this was a Friday circa 10:30 and only one other table of 4 in). One of us asked for a flat white, our head was snapped off with ‘We don’t do that”, another asked for scrambled or poached eggs rather than fried with the small breakfast “will have to see if the chef has time’!!!! The breakfast’s turned up and were nothing like what was described, chipolata sausages, beans that were over cooked, eggs overcooked.

My family and I were on our way to a festival and wanted a nice breakfast for the start of our journey. Car packed, we rang ahead and ordered so we could eat our food and hit the road. The drinks came out after twenty minutes, so we’d finished our drinks before and food had arrived. After an hour, our toast arrived, and then after an hour and 15 minutes our cooked breakfast to accompany the toast arrived. Burnt mushrooms and measly portions, I was pretty annoyed because my husband said the service was rubbish and I said ‘hey, they’ll have surely sorted it by now!’ And it made me look foolish because it hadn’t been sorted at all. Caused a family barney because we were all hangry. Not cool, not cool at all.

I visited Oakley Grange on an extremely hot date, so wanted everything to be perfect. Let me tell you, it was not. Firstly, there is very poor signage on the road. This caused me to have to dangerously swerve onto the lane, almost causing a crash and killing me and my (hot) date. Next we walked in and there was no-one to greet us. We had to wander around looking for a table and I was very worried my date thought I was a submissive idiot. A lady did eventually show up but she looked at us like we were trash, not like the golden god I wanted my date to perceive me as. She sat us down but made it clear that we were not to order anything other than drinks. At this point I was very worried my date would get hungry. I could feel her losing interest by the minute. Eventually the lady came and stood next to our table without saying anything. We took the initiative to order, but she didn't seem happy about it. After another hour the drinks came out. We were enjoying them until the lady slammed a bottle of table cleaner on our table and announced it was time for us to leave. While initially excited by the opportunity to protect my hot date like a man, this did also annoy me a bit. Overall it felt like they didn't want us there and couldn't wait for us to leave. To be honest I couldn't wait to leave either. 3/5 stars.

A friend erecommened we meet here for a casual lunch, never again. it was very basic inside and the quality of the service and food left a lot to be desired