This small indy restaurant has great appeal but has slipped a little in my evaulation as of late.
The very first time we had "the bread" which is the basket of bread bits you get at the start before your starter. The menu says it's served with a bulb of roasted garlic, and sure enough that's what we got. Enough salt to clear a frosted road and enough garlic to keep away your entire family for a month, it was delicious!
Now for some reason they don't do that any more and it's great, great shame. But it's still on the menu... why didn't I get garlic with mine? What do you mean it's not on the menu? It is, give me my menu back.. I'm sure I saw it...
It turns out that some of the menus (I'll talk about those in a sec) have got different wordings for things than the other menus have. So you can never really be sure of the finer points of what you order. Also my menu didn't have one plate on, but my other half's did. So.... anyway...
The menus are printed on brown paper and are printed in Courier New font which is the world's thinnest typerwriter font. Combine this with a piece of paper that is brown, shiny and stripey, it makes the menu incredibly difficult to read for someone (e.g. me) who has trouble with sight as it is. Oh and it's dark inside which disadvantages us bespectacled further.
The staff used to be full of beans but now they're just staff. The food is ... well, the food is pretty good. To be honest I'd forgotten all about my menu-problem by the time our mains arrived and we started, so it's fair to say that the kitchen are making up for the FOH's problems.
Give this place a try if you're in a group or you're a couple, but make sure your menus match (and the garlic bulb is definitely not on the menu!). read more