Totally agree with the other review on the staff running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It was like they were really confused about everything, even getting a glass of water.
We didn't get offered plates for a shared appetizer, and I know this sounds like I'm just trying to be a dick now, but the napkins just don't work. I know how that sounds, really, but I just .. they're just really ineffectual napkins.
The food is way way way over priced, and just completely unsatisfactory. They are obviously trying to put themselves forward as a trendy sort of hipster-y restaurant, and they've furnished the restaurant and definitely priced the menu accordingly, but forgot you actually have to make reasonable food.
We got the 18 quid menu, which is a starter or dessert and main and drink. That seemed reasonable enough, until we got said meal and drink. The beer smelled funny - like egg-ey - they obviously had not cleaned the tap, or had recently cleaned it and didn't completely finish. All I know is that we got the Meantime lager there, and then at a pub round the corner right after, and the difference was incredible.
The food. From the most to least egregious:
My friend ordered the posh fried chicken sandwich with sweet potato chips. Well, first, the chicken was not fried - it was grilled, and they thought that bathing it in some barbecue sauce made up for it. I asked the waitress about it, and she reacted like I'd kicked a puppy- it made me feel really bad, which is weird, because it's fairly reasonable to ask about why you've been served something you didn't order.
The chips were mediocre.
The hamburger. The quality of the beef burger itself wasn't bad, but it was over cooked. It is supposed to come with salt beef on it, which is what makes it special. I had to hunt for the salt beef - it was a tiny little square - really cheeky of them. I got the normal chips - soggy, sad little strings - this restaurant is where potato's dreams of being great go to die.
The last was the BC super food with chicken, which was the best of the three. It had a variety of vegetables, and the chicken was fine.
Also the desert was tasty - it was a fudge browny, nice and runny, good peanut ice cream. Just because I'm being picky now - served with a fork, which sort of makes no sense.
Just overall, really underwhelming. 18 quid for that should be a really, really good deal - but as a whole, we just really didn't enjoy the food and for some reason the wait staff just made me uneasy. I know, again, I know how that sounds - I can't put my finger on it. It just feels like everyone's confused all the time. read more