Elliston Grill

This is probably more of a 3.5 star review but it nudges towards 4 so here goes.
We were looking for somewhere to host a family birthday dinner and a family member had suggested here. It was my fist visit but apparently the Elliston Grill has been around for years and is popular with locals.
When we phoned to book, we were offered a special menu. At first when we received the menu, we thought it was a typo, but nope it wasn’t. £13.95 for 3 courses with optional charges (around £3 extra) for ordering the steak or cheese board.
The menu was a steal — great food for the price. The goats cheese starter with honey, beetroot and walnuts was lovely. Really good goats cheese — with a good balance of salty and sweet flavours (not too much salt as with some types of goats cheese). I also tried the pâté — this was a very generous portion and it was lovely too! Had a steak, cooked perfectly medium. Was a bit disappointed that the fish with puy lentils was off limits (not gluten free which was surprising) but other dinners who had this option thought it was very good. Very good generous portions so if you come hungry, you won’t be disappointed!
Typical range of desserts — crème brûlée, chocolate cake, cheese board, ice cream which were good — most of us were pretty stuffed by then.
Service was friendly but it was here it was a bit of a let down. The staff are all pretty young and friendly but may lack experience and might need someone with a bit more experience to manage the floor. There were two large tables (including ours) and other smaller ones, but there were times when no members of staff were on the floor and it took awhile for them to appear again. We had to constantly try and grab someone to reorder beers, soft drinks, etc for the non wine drinkers and this took awhile trying to find someone a few times when you would expect every now and again for someone to do a walk past to see if anything drink wise was needing replenished. They might have had an off night or been short staffed, who knows. As we had also been offered a set menu, created by the Elliston Grill, we were given a different one to what we had received (most people by then had already decided what they had wanted off the original menu) so we ended up reading the menu off phones so they could provide a copy of the menu that we had been sent.
So, probably a 3.5 at the moment. If I go back, it would be back with a smaller group as if you are hosting then you are conscious if you have guests lacking drinks and that does affect your enjoyment. But the food is good :-)