The Sussex Brewery - Chichester

Great old pub but terrible food, we left without eating it as it was soggy tinned/frozen veg that were cold along with everything else on the cold plate. Other dinners were also complaining. Even the potato was soggy. Looked disgusting and not fit for consumption.

This was probably the worst Sunday lunch experience ever. I went here with my son and grandson and probably waited 10 minutes to just find out if they had a table for us. That should have been a warning sign as it didn 't look very busy. We were then shown upstairs by a friendly waitress to our table, we then waited another 15 minutes before she came to ask if we wanted drinks, we told her we also wanted to order food at the same time as we had a 2 year old with us. There were 2 other tables with people at them. The drinks arrived and then a while later the food arrived. I couldn 't quite believe what was put in front of me, it was nothing more than a pasta bowl with some obviously frozen veg that looked terribly soggy, this had strangely been arranged around 3 miniscule Yorkshire puddings that were the size of table spoon, on these were bits of potato that were hardly recognisable as roast potatoes and my son said perhaps they bring the potatoes separately I pointed out that the potatoes were already on the plate. The beef looked overcooked and was completely stone cold. The child 's roast for my grandson at £10 was so dreadful that we couldn 't even cut through the chicken as it was so tough. The plates were cold and so was all the food, even if the food had been hot it looked so disgusting I wouldn 't have wanted to eat it. As gravy had come in individual pots, i dipped my finger in to see if that was even hot and it was only tepid, it tasted so strange and nothing like gravy. As my son continued to try cutting his child 's meat, I told him I couldn 't possibly eat this as it was inedible to which he then agreed. The people on the next table overheard us and said theirs was also disgusting with frozen broccoli almost a puree. I 've had better food in hospital and school dinners. I can 't imagine who was in the kitchen but it certainly couldn 't have been a chef. Whoever has provided positive reviews recently can only be friends of the people running this pub now as nobody in their right mind could find anything positive about the food, it truly was disgusting. We told the waitress we were leaving as the food was cold and disgusting, she asked us to pay for the drinks that we hadn 't drunk, we had ordered wine to drink with our meal. It really was a terrible experience. The couple who ran this before the last people were great, the food was exceptional and so was the service, my son said she was French. We will not be stepping foot in The Sussex Brewery again. £17 for a roast that even the dog would have turned his nose up at. A real shame as my son lives just round the corner.

The waitress was very friendly and attentive, however having to wait for an hour for our food is not good. When the food finally arrived it was edible. It was a bit weird to be served pork crackling with beef and beef gravy with chicken. The food itself was bland

Spent a relaxing afternoon in the Snug with friends. The beer and food were excellent. Good luck to the new owners. Thoroughly recommend the meat pie. It was delicious.

Under new management which is an immense improvement on the previous 'team ' who almost ran it into the ground and they 're gradually finding their feet and building local allegiance back up. Back on the menu are the popular sausages although these apparently come from Storrington which is somewhat of a surprise as Emsworth has 2 butchers who both sell/produce great sausages. We tried the pies and I have to say we were a little underwhelmed. Our Chicken, Leek Ham Pies were lacking in flavour, and Leeks, and with a token teaspoon of Mushy Peas`but with a very nice gravy. Our friend 's Steak Ale Pie looked a much better bet. There are much better pies like Turners available.... ....I hope the new team succeed, they 're certainly trying to and as a pub it 's got so much potential, and history.