"Can’t understand why our experience was so bad? We came as a foursome to celebrate our friend’s birthday, restaurant fairly quiet, bar filling up as it was a Friday night. Evening started poorly when the bottle of Prosecco we ordered came in an ice bucket, yet the bottle was room temperature. We ordered food, which then took 40 mins to arrive, not an excessive wait if the restaurant had been busy, but there were very few other diners. Of the 4 meals, not one was up to scratch. Florentine Salmon, so overpowered with chilli there was no other taste to it; Tuscan chicken, garlic, garlic, and yet more garlic; Cheese burger, the recipient wasn’t impressed with the overall greasiness of the meat; fish pie, a tiny portion, no veg, and a singular prawn. The young waitress enquired how our meals were, and perhaps I was too honest when I replied “please tell the chef this is terrible”, this gained an awkward giggle as a response, but that was the only response we got. Perhaps there were staffing issues in the kitchen, who knows, but for £120 bill, this definitely felt more poacher than gamekeeper."
