• Decent food

  Rating - Overall: 3  Food: 3  Service: 3  Ambience: 4

  

  iainpb
  Gastronome
  Member since Sep 08
  Rating: 3

  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 tart

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