No. Just no. Before it was the Midas Touch this establishment used to be called the Huntsman’s Hall and had quite a reputation. I never visited the Huntsman and never planned to. The pub was closed for a good while before it had a huge refurb and became the Midas Touch, turning a grubby pub into a decent and clean bar/lounge. A few friends of mine had popped in and said it certainly had a better atmosphere and wasn’t bad for a drink. This may be the case but I made the major error of trying it out for lunch. Disgusting. The menu sounded fairly nice, I went for the fishcakes while my friend went for the burger. She asked for her burger rare, after a brief stint in the kitchen the waitress returned and informed us the burger would be well done as that’s all they served. After scouring the menu for something else and drawing a blank my friend agreed and asked jokingly to do it on the rarer side of well done. She went back to the kitchen and seriously reported back that he couldn’t do it on the rarer side of well done — it would be cooked well done and that was that. Fair enough but cheer up, it was just a joke! Out came one burnt to a crisp burger, two ridiculously overdone fishcakes with no flavour whatsoever and a pile of soggy, disgustingly greasy fries. Add to that a billion mums with screaming babies and toddlers running about, a waitress with no sense of humour and a chef coming out the kitchen while you eat purely to scowl at you and you have the Midas Touch. Good job it was cheap as I could barely stomach it! Fail.
