How utterly disappointing not to be able to give more than two miserable stars.
Ulrik and I had made a reservation for Ulrik's birthday - and opening night of Retour! We arrived at 7:30 to a half-full restaurant. I think something had gone wrong when they installed the exhaustion as the restaurant was really smoky - almost as if a haze had settled.
The restaurant itself is unfortunately a rather dull room, a bit canteen-like without much joy to it.
We sat down, look through the paper menus and made our order (important note: if you're a vegetarian, then there is absolutely nothing here for you - they take 'steakhouse' quite literally). The service personnel were quite good and attentive, we were assigned our table by a nice hostess and another and equally nice waiter took our order.
And then we waited - and waited - and waited a little longer. And ate the entire bread-basket. Ca 45 later we got our food - I had ordered the burger while Ulrik went for a 400g rib eye Omaha Steak.
My burger was OK - the homemade bun was really good, the steak was OK - except that it was more well done than medium rare - while the cheese and the pickled accessories was nothing remarkable. However, I suppose that MAD, Cocks and Cows, Halifax all have better burgers so the burger shouldn't be why you come here. The stuff that came with the burger were fine, a good ketchup (you can't go wrong with Heinz), homemade jalapenos mayonnaise, and crisp fries.
Ulrik 's steak was cooked perfectly, a good piece of juicy meat. His béarnaise sauce, however, could well do with a bit more flavour - but I'm really also spoiled by Ulrik's amazing bearnaise sauce, so my expectations are high.
All in all I have to say this was a somewhat mixed experience. Perhaps it'll improve once they've had the chance to eliminate some of the beginner flaws. read more