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When the festive season comes I hope they put a gigantic Christmas tree festooned with baubles and lights in there and possibly invest in a Labrador or similar to snooze by the fire to complete the ambience.
Def. agree it's straight out of the Ramsay book of how to run a restaurant, but all the better for it given there isnt a similar SG option (unless you conflate it with the GastroPs). Short sharp menu, fresh 'local' produce, changing regularly. My mum went on Thursday, and had the menu Poxy showed, but just under half the items had changed by the time I went with frau mikecabic on saturday.
We were fairly conservative and went for moules marinere and steak and chips. The mussels were fine, nothing mindblowing, but the accompanying homemade soda bread was superb - apparently the chef is Irish. I had steak and chips - nice decent sized portion of chips, and the beef cut was skirt, which i guess is a bit unusual and different to the hanger in poxys photo - it tasted amazing and must keep the price down, but certainly not one for fans of fillet.
Overall i'd definitely reccommend it, and will try and head down once a month or so to try the new stuff. The only dissapointment was the wine we had, not bad for a house white, but the waitress did suggest one of the other options so on our head be it.
@ActionVerb - I was in there, on the table nearest the door with my missus! We had nabbed the last unreserved table, they were expecting two 'huge' groups although they hadn't shown by the time we left at 7.45.
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Would reiterate the other comments about the food being pretty good quality, though the chef failed to make the béarnaise sauce for the steak, strange. And they didn't offer to reduce the price of dish without sauce.
The bread was very good.
Sea bream quite small, but well cooked. Felt like a lunch sized portion.
Lamb cutlets also good, seemed an ample portion.
Steak and chips looked good, chips excellent.
No wine.
Thought service was pretty poor. Had booked a table for 7pm, walked in bang on and the maitre'd gave me a look, looks at the clock on the wall - which is 6 minutes slow, as if to say "but you're early!". Ffs, a 'good evening' would have been nice even if I was early (we weren't)
Waitress was pleasant and seemingly in training which is fine. But maitre'd insisted on shadowing her which felt a bit crowded around our table of 3.
Not deal breakers but didn't make for a
very comfortable evening.
Will go to support a local place, but not able to recommend anyone but locals go.
All in all, delicious food at a very reasonably price. The staff were friendly and I love the decor in there. I will go again, without a doubt.
The food was pretty miserable though. My starter was a poached egg that looked as though it came out of one of those poachers you buy in John Lewis, on beetroot (plain), with 'sorrell' (a couple of leaves, but mostly lettuce). Sort of ok, but pretentious (moi?) and that'll be £5.95 sir. The woodpigeon that followed was so undercooked it bled all over the plate, with an artichoke mix that is still rumbing in my tum as I write this the following morning.
Pudding: we had them all. Sticky toffee pudding was the best, (as others agree, but who needs another place for that), rice pudding was dry and sticky (prepared some time previously?), and the fruit crumble had boiling hot fruit and fairly raw crumble.
The house red was fair, and the water comes in ginger beer-type bottles with wired tops that get in the way when you pour.
Apart from that it was lovely.
Neil Gill, Season Kitchen.