Very good service and the view near the lake is so good and the waiter Reece was so kind to us and…read moreme giving me things to do very good waiter

There really should be 0 stars for service, totally ignored at the bar by staff, didn't bother to…read morewait for a drink as the guy next to me commented that he thought I was being ignored. Ignorant staff are never a good start. I'll see what the meal has to offer....if I get to the table. I made the table!! Who Hoo!! Tip: Avoid the bar, it's time being ignored you'll never get back!! Steak and Peroni ordered....moving up a couple of stars as the waiter was warm, friendly, came with a smile and was helpful! Waiter fantastic...food fantastic!! Up a star!!

I simply love it here. It's particularly good at Christmas time when you can gaze out of the window…read moreover the frosted lake and the bare trees, but it's all warm and cosy inside. Their Christmas menu is delicious, a real treat. The food is French. It's done well and this is reflected in the prices, the cheapest main course being £12.95. Get yourself a rich boyfriend and you're away! (I sound like my nan now)

This place is a real little gem tucked away in Sutton Park. It's a bugger to find - I recently…read moreattended a civil wedding that was being held there and having asked all the other guests, not one local taxi firm managed to find it first time! Sat Navs were also useless, so it's certainly a private little place. A former hunting lodge apparently formerly used by Henry VIII, it is an beautiful old building right on the lake. The sunsets over the lake are absolutely stunning and it's a cosy, warm little place. The staff are very pleasant and helpful in general except for the odd exception - I'm sure they know who they are!

I was here for a conference and I also stayed at the hotel. It was my first time here and I was…read morepleasantly surprised. The staff was very friendly and helpful and the meeting space was very good, not large, but just right for our conference and meetings. The breakfast buffet was pretty standard fare and the restaurant staff was great. Lunch at the conference was also good. The bartenders were good, but they have a very limited selection of whiskey/whisky, which was surprising. It's also a cashless hotel. There are other shops and restaurants not too far away.

Modern and tastefully-decorated, this place impresses from the moment you set foot on its boundary…read more Glass-fronted and rustic, the mixture of old and new is visible throughout. On the many occasions (probably ten plus) I have been here I have never, ever, had a bad meal. All of them have been exquisite. Prices from £10 to £20 for a non-steak dish and steaks from £12 to £42, there's plenty to choose from including sirloin, fillet, rib eye and the more exclusive Chateubriand to share. Steaks are served with a salad wedge: this is a quarter of a lettuce with your choice of dressing (the garlic and parmesan is awesome). Sides include the "famous" onion loaf (amazing), crushed new potatoes (a fantastic alternative to fries), and tons of sauces including the good-as-it-sounds beef dripping. Drinks aren't too pricey but are a little on the premium side. Cocktails are £7 each (£5 before 7pm), desserts around the £5 mark, and expect a whole meal to cost around £50 per head if you're going to have a good time.

I love any place where a dapper American chap comes over at the start of the meal to introduce you…read moreto the truffle they use. We were at Carters with Edd's parents for a celebratory meal so we went for the 7 course tasting meal with wine pairing. There is also the option to have five courses. Water was topped up throughout the meal and we had a new glass of wine with each course. The wines were amazing and I highly recommend going for the pairing if you can. Expect light, fresh reds, crisp whites and a surprise rose. Plus Nyetimber demi sec. Service was fantastic obviously. They explain each course and each wine in such a relaxed but knowledgeable fashion. I've left food until last. Obviously it's a tasting menu so the courses are small. I loved that I didn't feel stuffed at the end. Food is British in origin and influence. We had several 'snacks' to start. My favourites were the chicken liver cereal and the Tamworth cured ham. My favourite course was the sea trout with vibrantly fresh green peas. I also loved the ewe's yoghurt with fennel and blueberries. This isn't the wackiest or most inventive tasting menu I've had but it's lovingly put together and cooked and was truly delicious! One for a special occasion, needless to say.

Went here for a valentines meal which we booked three months in advance due to its popularity…read more I know a couple of people who had been here and they said it was well worth going, so we was very excited leading up to it. Not long before we got a call to tell us the menu and the price, £85 a head!!!! We debated about weather we should go and actually pay that price and eventually decided to do it. It would be a one off and we really had only read and heard really really good things about the place. I wish we had decided that it was just too much because it was not worth that price. We had seven courses which were very small and oddly served on huge plates which made the portions seem even more ridiculous. I get that for a lot of courses you do not have a lot of food for each one but this really was tiny. I had hoped that for the price I was paying that the meal would be the best I had ever had and sadly it wouldn't even make it in to the top 5 despite having paid about triple the amount. Some dishes were nice but there was no where near as much flavour as I expected or the creativity I had hoped for a Michelin starred restaurant. Some of the dishes were just bad such as the kale grains and seeds. The best one was roast red deer with parsnips and by far the worst was the pudding which was a Yorkshire rhubarb tart. The rhubarb was extremely sour which it shouldn't be and the rest of the dessert consisted of a wafer on top of sorbet. Both were nice but it's not what you expect for the money in the slightest. I left with a sour taste in my mouth (was it the rhubarb or the price?) and wouldn't be going back. People have labelled it as an 'experience' and that its 'fine dining' and people assume that you don't know what you are talking about if you don't enjoy it, you must be in the wrong. I'm not saying I'm an expert on food but I could tell this was not worth the money. It represented the stereotypical nature of Michelin starred restaurants that you assume is a myth e.g big price, pretentious customers and lack of food. I cannot however fault the service. The way we were treated was excellent, they were attentive, constantly were asking us if we needed anything without feeling obtrusive and seemed to have a good knowledge of the food and drink that was served. They are the reason that I felt I couldn't give this a one star. If people were curious to go I would say 100% go for lunch first to get an idea of what it's like without paying such a huge price tag. But don't get your hopes up as the cheapest is still £35 which for lunch is crazy. The tagline on the website is simple, affordable, fun. Don't be fooled.

While the service may be a bit slow from time to time, the staff is very friendly and the food is…read morevery good. Drink menu is wonderful and incredibly varied.

We had a lovely lunch here. There is not a lot of choice in the city centre that is not chains…read more(Nandos, KFC, MacDonalds or pubs), or that is open for lunch. The building looked quite big, but once inside, it is quite a small restaurant for about 20 covers, unless there was another floor. On entering the restaurant there is a small dining area with four tables, and then another leading up from there through to the back, with two tables, then the bar is situated in the third room in the back. It does give quite a cosy feel and it is quite intimate, and relaxing. We were shown into the middle room with the two tables. There's a really good bar menu of soup of the day, sandwiches with hand cut chips and salad, but also salads and full dishes, as well as the à la carte menu of starters, mains and desserts, or the steak menu of four kinds of steak with four kinds of sauces plus side orders, so plenty of choice to suit every taste. I went for the bar food of soup of the day which was a mint pea soup and the full dish of fish and chips with tartar sauce. The soup came with three pieces of warm ciabatta, my favourite! So that pleased me a great deal, as I am not a fan of pea soup, but I was happy to try it, as I really wanted some soup. The pea soup consisted of small chunks of cucumber, small pieces of string beans, peas and watercress, a very green dish and did not taste minty at all, looked good and tasted fine. It looked quite a big dish too until you realise the dish was really shallow, so was just really a bowl size soup in a shallow dish. The fish and chips was a very nicely presented dish on a wooden chopping board. The fish is half the size of what one gets from the chippy. Would have liked a bit more as it was very nice, as the beer batter was very crisp and thin. The little tub of tartar sauce was also good, with small diced pickled gherkins and parsley. It was served on a bed of potato wedges with salad and a little tub of mushy peas as well. My companion chose the 10oz steak from the a la carte menu with peppercorn sauce. This was actually a good size, well cooked with peppercorn sauce that also had a spice kick. I had a taste and it was very nice indeed. The bar served draft beers, and there is live music here on Saturday and Sunday nights. Sunday lunch looks good value at £16 for three courses too. Pity we are not local, but only here for the day. It looks like a fun evening can be had here with good food.

The customer service here is absolutely impeccable. I would highly recommend this place!read more

My ski friends (including fellow Yelper Lesley B from Manchester) and I had a reunion yesterday. We…read morehit the indoor snowdome at near by Tamworth and I was delegated the task of finding somewhere nice for dinner. Now, considering Birmingham is the UK's second largest city, you'd think that it would be full of lovely fine dining experiences. Well, you'd be wrong and I was struggling when the few Michelin starred places were fully booked So what's the next best thing to a Michelin starred restaurant? A restaurant run a chef who used to run a Michelin starred restaurant! The chef-patron Andy Waters won a Michelin star when he ran a restaurant of the same name in Henley-in-Arden. He has upped sticks to open this restaurant in central Birmingham in July last year and the Michelin people have already been expressing an interest in rating his new restaurant The restaurant is quite cozy but beautifully decorated in a modern style with an eye for detail extending from interesting curved light arrangements hanging from the ceiling to flowers in the bathrooms. After an afternoon's exertions on the slopes, we were hungry and opted for the tasting menu, which included 7 courses with coffee and half a bottle of water included in the price. There was a choice offered for 4 courses 1. The amuse bouche was a cup of parsnip and apple soup. My friend summed it up perfectly by saying it was a taste of Christmas in a cup 2. I opted for Cornish crab with crispy king prawn & salmon tartare for my first course. The Cornish crab tasted very fresh and was accented with some caviar. The salmon tartare could have done with a foil, perhaps something with a bit of texture for contrast. The crispy king prawn was so lovely I even ate the deep fried tail, which flummoxed my friends when they found my plate to be bare! My sister said her carpaccio of beef with ricotta & parmesan cheese, rocket leaves & sweetened red pepper married flavours together perfectly 3. While the others enjoyed wonderfully sweet seared scallops with almonds, sultanas & caper butter sauce, I couldn't resist the seared foie gras with poached pear & spiced Muscat sauce. A good choice with decadently rich liver being offset by the sweet pear and sauce. 4. I think the restaurant undersold our universal choice for main course by describing it as "Jimmy Butler's free range pork with apples, calvados & a confit of savoy cabbage". Once the maitre d' had clarified that this was pork prepared in 4 ways - black pudding, slow braised cheek, pan roasted loin and roasted belly, the monkfish alternative was quickly dismissed. My favourite preparation was the braised cheek, which went very well with the black pudding it was sitting on 5. The cheese course was a deep fried ball of goat's cheese with a slice of truffle and honey. I love truffle and I felt it was a bit drowned out by the goat's cheese, so I ate my slice separately! 6. Our pre-dessert of passion fruit jelly was topped with a fruit mixture. Nice palate cleanser 7. The kitchen was unable to offer the desserts on the tasting menu and so we were given free choice of the dessert menu to choose from. We all chose different dishes to be able to share different things. My poached pear was lovely. My sister's tiramisu was a deconstructed version of the Italian classic shaped into a chocolate box. Lesley B's chocolate fondant didn't quite have the molten interior expected while the last dessert was a trio including mango sorbet. Some lovely petit fours accompanied coffee. The ingredients in the dishes included some real treats - caviar and truffle to name 2. The presentation was also top class. A couple of minor technical slips but a most enjoyable meal Service was lovely and we were able to chat quite a lot with the maitre d' to find out a bit more about the restaurant and its history. I await with interest to see if the Michelin guide will reward them in January

I went to the The Yeoman Harvester on St Nicholas Park Drive last week and was amazed. Its a lovely…read morefriendly restaurant, spotless clean, and the food was sooooooooooo good. You can help yourself to as much salad, rolls, butter as you want. We ordered chicken and ribs and was tasty. For Dessert we ordered an ice cream sundae and to our amazement have never seen such a big ice cream sundae. If you have a cold drink, i.e. coke, lemonade you pay for the first one then you can have as many free refills as you like. Great value for money. The restaurant has a private car park with plenty of spaces. The staff are very helpful and friendly.

This is an update. I caved in!…read more Went there about a week ago when there was an offer on, and a new menu. We were seated quite promptly and the server was very friendly. I ordered ribs, and because of my disaster last time, I mentioned that I don't like them blackened - turns out they were so tender, moist and tasty - and not black, perfect. The salad bar was much improved, with new items that were very tasty. If only I went on my own, this would've been 5 stars but alas, I wasn't. The sirloin steak was very tough and gristly and had to be sent back and replaced with gammon (which was nice, by the way). The child's meal was very, very hot but nicely presented, generous and tasty. All in all, we will return but not if we want steak.

This place was absolutely a fabulous hidden gem that doesn't seem to be high on the Yelp radar…read more They won best gastropub in 2023 and we brought a party of 8 and the food was spectacular. Great drinks, great food, fantastic atmosphere, next time I fly across the world this direction we will be back!

What a Gem! so cosy, dog friendly, fantastic drinks and cocktail selection!…read more The food was absolutely beautiful, the staff were so friendly and it just felt like home. Thank you so much.