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2011-12-20
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It's was my first time to try this restaurant out and it turned out to be a fairly happy one.It's a Christmas Celebration so we wanted a British Christmas dinner. So a friend suggested we try here because it should have Roast beef, Turkey etc...I rang to ask if they'd be doing a christmas menu. The lady over the phone said yes,but wouldn't be out until beginning of December. She emailed me the menu when it was finished.I made a reservation for a table of nine. As I've never been before it was ac
It's a Christmas Celebration so we wanted a British Christmas dinner.
So a friend suggested we try here because it should have Roast beef, Turkey etc...
I rang to ask if they'd be doing a christmas menu. The lady over the phone said yes,
but wouldn't be out until beginning of December. She emailed me the menu when it was finished.
I made a reservation for a table of nine.
As I've never been before it was actually very easy to find the restaurant and with it being decorated
all red, looking like a UK telephone box. It was hard to miss. When I got there, I looked around the
premises. It's not as big as it looks in the picture, I was a little worried that we'd be sitting at the bar table,
but luckily there is another floor upstairs. Again it wasn't very big, there were only a few tables set out.
Just enough space really for seating two large tables of ten people. However it was felt quite cosy sitting on
the large red couches. Christmas Music was played in the background, but it was very frustrating as it kept
breaking throughout the tracks.
The service was okay, I wouldn't say it was great. We sat down to look at the menu only to be given the
A la Carte menu. We had to ask for the Christmas Menu to be given to us. After a quick scan of the Christmas
Menu we all decided that there wasn't anything that appealed to us on it, so in the end we ordered from the
A la Carte.
Firstly we ordered some starters. Two portions of Deep fried Camembert with cranberry relish, Two portions of
Calamari. A portion of the deep fried white bait and a beetroot, stilton, apple, walnut and watercress salad.
There were three wedges in the portion, filled with hot melted camembert. As a cheese lover it was divine and
complimented very well with the cranberry relish.
It was a fairly big portion, I haven't really much to say about this one. It was good, but nothing special.
I wasn't too happy about the white bait. I felt it wasn't crispy enough and taste wise kinda so so.
If I was to give a mark for its Appearance. I'd give it a 9 out of 10. However to comment on the taste, it was fairly salty.
After that we ordered our mains. Five of us ordered the Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Gravy and Veg.
Three people ordered the Yorkshire Pudding filled with three types of sausages: pork & veal, Cumberland
and apple & pork with thick gravy and mash and I ordered the braised rosemary lamb shank with creamy mash.
This looked and tasted great. The Roasted potatoes were perfect. The Yorkshire Pudding was chewy which I liked and the onion gravy was top notch.
This dish was to die for. The lamb was so tender and moist, the meat fell straight of the bone when I put a knife to it. The mash tasted marvelous so creamy and buttery. Only downside was that it didn't come with any veg.
I so recommend this to lamb lovers.
The Yorkshire Pudding with three types of sausages weren't too bad either.
We were all stuffed silly, but there's always room for dessert. We didn't fancy a whole portion each, so we just ordered
a couple to share, so we could all finish on a sweet note. We ended up ordering Sticky toffee Pudding and
Apple Crumble with vanilla ice cream. Only for it to end up being Rhubarb Crumble which most of us don't like!
So it was sent back and replaced for the Apple.
The sponge was moist and not sickly sweet it was nice. It was quite a large slice and enough for us all to try it.I would have really like for it to have custard though.
I wasn't too keen on this version of Apple Crumble. Again there wasn't any custard, instead came with cream. I found the crumble was not crumbly enough and there were blueberries in it as well.
Overall the experience was a good one, I would definitely go again.
The total bill came up to $3780. Including 10% service charge and the drinks that we ordered.
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