• Good, but no that good

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

  

  Richard4863
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  Member since Jan 10
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  23 Jan 2010

  This was my first visit to The Muset. I was expecting great things, based on their internet site and from what friends had told me. I went along to celebrate a friend's birthday who also happens to be a neighbour.

  First impressions weren't great - a fairly uninspiring part of Bristol which wasn't helped by the wheelie bins outside the restaurant. Once inside, our party of ten was led to what seemed to be a corridor with a dead-end. The tablecloth was made of paper - always a bad sign - and the chairs had an uninviting school-like quality about them. Apparently, it's one of Bristol's first bring-your-own-wine restaurants. Corkage is £2 per bottle of wine which is pretty reasonable.

  The menu was intriguing but nothing really fuelled my tastebuds. I found it hard to get excited about anything.

  The service was efficient and the staff were generally polite and attentive. Sadly the food left no great impression. I had wood pigeon to start, followed by rump of lamb. It was pleasant enough, if a tad over-salted, but it didn't excite me particularly. The vegetables were cooked al dente, which is how I like them, but there weren't enough of them. It felt as if I was eating at the staff canteen - you're allowed so many items but no more.

  My sweet was pleasant enough - winter berries. My share of the bill for a three-course meal without wine was about £40 - steep for what was a distinctly average meal in a distinctly average setting. Will I go back there? Well, if it's on expenses, I might do but I doubt that I'll be setting foot in the place again if I have to cough up myself.

  Visited: January 16, 2010
  What I ate: Wood pigeon lamb rump berries

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