Food, glorious food. Hard to find in this town!

There are not very many eateries in this burgh, and the ones we have, are not up to much. It is embarrassing when we have friends call unexpectedly, and we want to take them out for a meal.We have two pubs/hotels and three cafes and a deli. One of the cafes is part of a bakery, and is therefore only open for usual business hours. Likewise the new cafe. this last establishment sells beautiful home made fare, but, the prices are sky high.
The other bakery/cafe is open on weekends but by then they sell the left over somewhat stale bakery products. Not my taste at all.
My brother-in-law and his wife are travelling around in their motor home, visiting rellies They arrived on Tuesday night and rang quite late, and asked what time they should call the next day. I was caught on the back foot, so to speak, and did not know what to say. I jokingly said they should come after breakfast. He said he would not be coming before. That attempt at a joke fell flat They arrived about 9.45 am. I knew they would not feel like a cuppa straightaway, as I had rung earlier to say they could come any time, as it was after 8, and we had had breakfast. I was informed they were just having theirs.
I made us a cuppa about 11 am, and close to lunch time it occured to me, to ask what their plans were for the rest of the day, especially lunch. We discussed things and decided to go to one of the pubs. I then realized it was my day for the home help lady to come. The guys had suggested that wwe would go to the farm after lunch. I rang and asked for the office to contact my cleaner, and she rang me and we changed the times. She has a client after me who she also takes shopping. This lady was very pleased with the time change, so it worked out for all concerned. We decided to put off going to the farm until the next day.
Now about the food. The only pub we grace with our presence has had a succession of cooks, and there is little difference between them. None of them would last in a shearing shed, let alone a quality hotel.
The menu choices were not at all enticing. There was rissoles in gravy or mini beef parmegiana. For dessert the choice was between bread and butter pudding or apple crumble.Hubby and I chose apple crumble and our guests the bread and butteer pud.
Hubby said his rissoles were quite nice, but the other things were not to my liking at all. When the desserts were served, I was horrified after taking my first mouthful, to discover the apple crumble was stone cold straight out of the refrigerator!! I ask you. Doesn't anybody know how to serve food properly? The bread and butter pud was no better. It is supposed to have sultananas in it. There was a minute amount of apricot jam way down deep in the bottom of the bowl. It is at times like that I wish we had a Hungry Jack's or some such in this town. At least the food would be the correct temperature, and more appetising.