Guest User
December 17, 2021
Took my family and elderly father for Sunday lunch. Arrived for early sitting at 12.15. Restaurant was cold (we all kept our coats on for the meal) and the room smelled strongly of dirty drains. It slowly got warmer and the smell was diluted by the smell of cooking (or maybe we just got used to it). Not a good start. Sadly, things got worse when the food arrived. I had ordered the “British grass fed sirloin of beef 82 day dry aged ex dairy herd” roast at £24.50. It sounded great but was inedible; just raw, sinewy, gristly and chewy, impossible to eat. I explained to the waitress and she said she would have the kitchen prepare another plate of beef which had been cooked a little longer. When it arrived it was the same impossible to eat chewy beef, just cooked a bit longer. The vegetables (carrots, broccoli and cauliflower cheese was all severely undercooked (I like al dente, but this was simply undercooked to the extent my father was unable to cut a carrot in half). To their credit the manager (I think) saw I could not eat the beef and apologised and said I would not be charged for it. Fine, but it doesn’t really help much when you have made such an effort to have a nice meal and it is effectively spoiled for you and your guests because a “professional chef” is incapable of choosing a decent cut of beef and boiling some vegetables. All in all very disappointing.