Soggy pizza?! That's just wrong.
Waiting for our table peeved me massively at Via Napoli (their excuse for our wait was soooo lame and unprofessional) , the ineptness of our server didn't help but the pizza was on target and the meatball and spaghetti one of us ate inspired another to request this restaurant again. Having torn the staff to fine pieces during 2 after visit surveys I feel my job was done and hope our next visit will allow us to have a full dining experience that allows us to concentrate on the good food.
I'm hoping your Rose and Crown experience was an anomaly because I'm "jonesing" for a true fish and chips meal.
What did you have for dessert?
Yes, it was soggy and we were so sad
I will say, we didn't have to wait at all for a table though. We actually showed up quite a bit earlier than our reservation time and were seated immediately. It's been a few years, and every so often I toy with the idea of booking it again just to see, but I just can't get past the first visit!
As for Rose and Crown, I had the fish and chips for my meal and they were just ok. I love the fish and chips at the QS in the UK though, Yorkshire County Fish Shop.
The dessert I had at R&C was the sticky toffee pudding. Between the four of us, for apps we had a scotch egg, two English pastys, and a crock of leek and potato soup. All of those were good, the scotch egg being the winner. For entrees, two of us had the fish and chips, one had the strip steak with fried fish, and one had the strip steak on its own. The loaded Yorkshire pudding that came with the steak was really, really good. Three of us had the sticky toffee pudding and one had the English trifle. Dessert was my favorite course by far!!
Annnd you only asked about dessert, but I tend to over-explain everything, LOL!!