Visited the bugle in brading for a carvery today 29th july with my wife and our kids, as regular carvery diners at various establishments in and around sandown thought we would try somewhere new. Wish we hadn't bothered quite possibly the worst meal i have ever had the misofrtune to have to pay for! Attitude of staff stunk, had to queue for over half an hour (could of made a roast at home myself), although they were generous enough with the postions the beef was obviosuly bought in as ready sliced frozen beef as it had that incepid grey tinge to it, veg was finely chopped carrots and finely chopped swede - thats it!! then covered in a gravy that was extreemly salty (presumably to encourage diners to order more drinks from the overstretched bar staff), all in all a disgrace. I accept that at £8 each you are never going to get gordon ramsey cooking for you but there are limits to what can realistically be called food. When ordering at the bar i did actaully overhear another diner complain about the salty gravy before being rudely shot down by the staff!!! The restaraunt was extreemly packed with dozens of screaming kids not being looked after by their parents. People kept turning up who had booked tables only to discover there was no room at the inn - and then decided to hang around waiting. This meant that as well as having a terrible dinner we had an audience of a dozen or so people stood drinking within about 2ft of our table, four times my wife was nearly knocked out of her chair!! Don't get me wrong i like a bit of atmosphere but there is a difference between that and a 20 stone northern woman standing at your shoulder screaming 'chelsea, bianca - stop throwing suace at each other!!!'
To anyone else who enjoys the easy sunday dinner of popping to a local pub for a carvery my honest advice would be don't bother - there are loads of places in and around sandown that offer a really nice freshly cooked sunday roast in nice surroundings - i would tell you where they are but then i probably won't be able to get a table next week!!!

On the final day of our holiday last week, before joining an endless queue of traffic for the 17.30 ferry at E. Cowes, we dined at the Bugle. We felt the menu was generally limited in terms of content. Nothing particularly tickled my fancy, so coming from Birmingham and being accustomed to the culinary delights of the Balti belt etc, I decided to try the chicken tikka massala. It was advertised as home made, which I now assume simply means prepared on the premises - using something like a Home Pride cook-in sauce. I am no great cook, but could easily have produced a more authentic dish. I would refer the chef to the BBC Good Food website for some easy recipes! Yes, I realise that if I'd wanted curry I should have gone to an Asian restaurant, but this home made offering was truly awful. Wouldn't bother going again and glad we were well away from the ball pit area, which stank.