Firehouse Rotisserie
BA1 2JL
Snapshot
- Area
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Bath
Bath City Centre - Cuisine
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American
- Price
- £15 - £25
- Tags
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good dessert
six hour lmb
great polenta
Ratings
- Overall
- 3.8 stars
- Food
- 3.8 stars
- Service
- 3.8 stars
- Ambience
- 3.6 stars
Opening hours
- Monday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 6.00pm - 11.00pm
- Tuesday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 6.00pm - 11.00pm
- Wednesday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 6.00pm - 11.00pm
- Thursday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 6.00pm - 11.00pm
- Friday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 6.00pm - 11.00pm
- Saturday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 6.00pm - 11.00pm
- Sunday
- closed
- Alfresco dining
- Child friendly
- Cover charge
- Disable WC
- Disabled access
- Group bookings
- Open bank holidays
- Parking
- Private dining
- Quality wine cellar
- Reservation required
- Smoking area
- Special dietry
- Veggie friendly
- WiFi
Set in the heart of Georgian Bath, Firehouse Rotisserie occupies old wool traders' premises. The downstairs retains all the original features (fireplaces and wooden floors) and is decorated in earthy rustic style. There is room for 42 diners (where they can watch the chefs hard at work at their creative best on the rotisserie grills and brick fired ovens) and for another 20 upstairs.
The cuisine is Californian, laced with Mexican, Creole and Pacific Rim touches. Try the Texas Spice-Rubbed Rotisserie Chicken with Jalapeno Coleslaw or the Pacific Crab Cakes with Avocado Salsa and wash them down with a choice from the range of New World wines. Service is American-style too, efficient but relaxed and children are especially welcome: if a man's gotta eat what a man's gotta eat, then he's gotta eat it at the Firehouse.
Restaurant Reviews
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Very good price-quality
Rating - Overall: 5 Food: 4 Service: 5 Ambience: 5
30 Mar 2009
I realy enjoyed it. Was not expensive at all (2 drinks + 2 starterd + 1 pizza, enough for two) around 25 pounds.
I'll definitely go again if I go back to Bath.
Visited: March 28, 2009
What I ate: Pizza prosciutto, mussels, goat cheese fondueThis review has no responses yet
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Decent food
Rating - Overall: 3 Food: 3 Service: 3 Ambience: 4
26 Mar 2009
A pleasant spacious restaurant with an open kitchen and dining over multiiple floors, the menu is large and there is plenty of choice. The wine lists offers bottles between £13 and £30 and our bottle of Shiraz in the middle of that range was really rather good.
The opening crayfish salad featured plenty of succelent crayfish, was nicely dressed and served with parmesan toasts. The combination worked well but each component was cold, it would have been better had the crayfish or the toasts been served warm to provide a contrast to the cold salad.
A 6 hour baked achiote lamb suggested it was to be deeply flavoured, soft and moist. Although deep in flavour it was a little too dry and there wasn't quite enough of the sauce to balance out the dryness. The side serving of the sage and parmesan fried polenta really was excellent, perfectly balanced flavours with a crisp outer shell and a soft inner. Easily ranks as the best polenta i have tried.
A warm fig and almond tart finished the meal nicely, the pastry was warm and without the soggyness of microwave reheating. Plenty of large sticky figs and lovely creamy ice cream. A great combination!
Service was a little slow with taking first orders and delivery of courses which was to be expected really as were a table of thirteen. Slight slowness aside service was friendly.
Visited: March 25, 2009
What I ate: Crayfish salad, 6 hour baked lamb, fig and almond tartThis review has no responses yet
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tasty
Rating - Overall: 4 Food: 4 Service: 4 Ambience: 3
4 Jan 2009
I have eaten at the Fire House in both Bath & Bristol and have always enjoyed the food. I have either been with my family or as a couple with friends.
The Bristol branch is more contemporary than Bath, and I prefer to be downstairs rather than upstairs in the Bath branch.
My favourite starter is chicken, with finely cut salad with ginger & coriander, very healthy. Yummy yummy it is delicious.
I would like to have taken my family there this Christmas Eve at 6pm but they were not open unfortunately.
Visited: March 24, 2007
What I ate: Chicken for starterThis review has no responses yet
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Pretty good
Rating - Overall: 3 Food: 4 Service: 3 Ambience: 2
2 Jan 2009
This was a special occassion for me, and the food was fantastic, but I have to say that the service and the atmosphere really wasn't quite as good as I had expected or would have liked.
We had a pleasant waiter, but the food and drinks took quite a while to arrive, and we had to remind the waiter for a couple of things we had requested.
The ambience isn't brilliant, there is no cosy welcoming feel to the place. The tables are placed a little too close together, and when combined wiith the wooden floorboards it makes the place quite noisy. In our case it wasn't helped by the fact that we were seated next to a large family group with young children.
Overall I would say it's pretty good, mainly due to the food which was delicious, but the experience as a whole isn't great.
Visited: December 29, 2008
What I ate: Goats cheese fondue starter, rotissery chicken and 6 hour cookedThis review has no responses yet
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Delicious!
Rating - Overall: 4 Food: 4 Service: 4 Ambience: 4
1 Jan 2009
Absolutely delicious! I enjoyed a really good pizza here (it is def. a cut above any other I've tried) where as my dining companion opted for a salad. Both presented well, and tasted great. A really lovely atmosphere and located on one of Bath's prettiest streets. GREAT!
Visited: November 26, 2007
What I ate: Pizza, champagne sorbet.This review has no responses yet
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