Juliet

A birthday meal treat. Great quality food, sharing menu. They recommend six small dishes to share between two “ medium hungry” people. We had five savoury dishes plus bread, and two desserts between the two of us, and were full.

What a jolly nice place & Staff….. Dogs allowed, but might be a bit tight for you and the four legged one. Park at Waitrose (2 hour max) or the Pay and Display next door (3 mins walk to Juliet’s ) Pay and display Parking was free after 2pm on the Thursday, but not sure if that is every day of the week ? Not sure I would want to stay in Stroud overnight 🤔 Would probably go to Painswick (The Painswick Hotel) or Tetbury (The Royal Oak) eat at Lola’s or the Pub in Tetbury So get to Juliet’s and support this funky fun business and the people who run the show

Great new restaurant in Stroud. Seasonal ingredients treated with respect - beautiful pasta, mackerel and lamb. A small but perfectly curated and well priced wine list too. Don’t skip dessert 👀 We hired the piano room for a large group and were very well looked after. Left completely satisfied and stunned at the value of the set menu! Will be back soon.

A disappointing dinner - or never trust food critics (again) Juliet has received at least two rave reviews from national food critics. Expectations were high. The concept is small plates, and that's where the first problem occurs. A table for two isn't big enough for the plates, wine, water and bread. The waitress moved the bread to the banquette seat, and the wine and water on top of the partition separating us from another part of the restaurant and an adjoining table. Worried that someone accidentally banging the partition might send liquid flying in all directions we put it on the bench seating that later would be used by other guests. Not great. But to turning to better things and the wine - the list is to be commended. Good wines at a fair price. The food ranges from good to bad. Sadly one of the bad is the most expensive dish. Salami was good but then the kitchen only had to slice it I assume. The chicken parfait looked very lonely as a slab on the plate and after five minutes we had to ask for bread to accompany it. Still it was well made (both the bread and parfair). Beef tartare was a high point. The Calcots were more than grilled as described by the waitress. They were burnt to a cinder in places. That might be intended but it meant I had to cut away and discard a third of the dish. The Ragu was given a tick by the ravenous 21 year old sitting opposite me but my pigeon with Tokyo turnips, a hefty sprinkling of nuts and a broth that defied description received a big thumbs down. To explain: - the dish came out tepid. The broth was served with a spoon and eating cold broth that was separating on the plate was not nice. I sent it back. I was happy to wait. When the dish was returned I was told the chef said it should not be served 'piping hot.' I said I didn't ask for it to be piping hot, just hot like the side dishes. - the broth and the turnips did not work. Ok that's my personal observation but putting my Japanese hat on Tokyo turnips are rarely served as what I assumed were steamed lumps. They naturally have no flavour. So they're served either raw in a salad with a sharp dressing, pickled or part of a big steaming shabu shabu style dish. When the waitress later asked me about the dish I explained this. They're not Tokyo turnips, she said, they're Italian turnips. But it says they're Tokyo turnips on the menu. And this was the classic response…'we don't have control over the printing of the menu.' 'But they're Tokyo turnips,' I said. 'The menu is correct.' No apparently they weren't. Anything else? Well when the plate was returned some of the pigeon had mysteriously disappeared. There were far too many nuts that in terms of texture and taste were at odds with the dish, and the broth did not work. Maybe the kitchen did know they were Tokyo turnips and was attempting some form of shabu shabu. I don't know. The dish was edible but not enjoyable. We had been told that the tarte tatin was excellent. Ours came out with the pastry underdone with a layer of uncooked dough. Even the 21 year old said it was doughy and a disappointment. A soggy bottom as they say. I'm throwing out one other point. Friends had gone last week, and one had ordered quail. She had found that her's was in parts undercooked. (Others in the group had quail that was better cooked.) Does the kitchen know how to cook game? I sent the friend a text. She was in London watching Tom Hiddleston in Much Ado About Nothing. The response I later received was a curt 'we talked about not having game there!!…you should have stayed at home and watched Celtic.' So the bill came to £182 for two. If I total up the food that was missing the mark for us (incl. service) I'd spent £64 on it. Frankly a waste. Still, look at the photos and draw your own conclusions. (When Google has finished uploading I'll add explanatory captions.)

Outstanding restaurant. There is (free in the evening) parking close by. The staff here are excellent, attentive, but too much, getting the balance just right. Strongly suggest booking especially for the weekend as this place is justifiably popular. It is a small plates (tapas style), and between the six of us we had the overwhelming majority of the dishes. Almost all of them were standout excellent, the others just very good! We really had a fabulous meal here and can unreservedly recommend this place. On the way out a couple also dining there asked if we thought it sperb as they did. Brilliant.

Delicious, skillful cooking with high-quality, carefully-sourced ingredients. A thoughtful drinks list with very generous pricing. My favourite kind of service - relaxed, understated, attentive but not intrusive. A dude playing banger after banger on a piano! ON A MONDAY!!!! Stroud, you dunno how good you've got it!!!

Fantastic experience, booked for a 2.30 lunch slot on a Monday, perfect timing in my opinion. Not sure why everyone in the comments is saying this place is a tapas bar…it’s a French inspired bistro. The space is calm, clean and welcoming. The food was quick to come out and absolutely delicious, every dish was faultless really, plus there’s an extensive and pretty perfect wine list, also the service was on point. Thanks everyone

28/12/2024:- Visited this new Tapas restaurant in town (on the London Road in Stroud - on the site of the former Corner House) for lunch with friends. It was recommended and we were told the proprietor chef had been head chef at the renowned Woolpack in Slad. The menu is extremely well thought out for a kitchen to deliver skilfully. Every dish was delicious and presented to perfection ...but (of course!) food of this quality doesn't come cheap. There was a certain lack of thought by the servers, ie not enough spoons to dish out the different dishes, not asking if we'd like freshly ground pepper, having to ask to settle our bill twice, and, altho' we were happy with our main waitress, the others need more training for a 12.5% service charge. Also, we were sat where there were underseat heaters, absolutely scorching and even unnecessary on a chilly day. We did complain but one couldn't be switched off! 🥵 There's only one loo for maybe 30 seated customers. One last criticism - the tapas are aimed at 2 people sharing and if the party is 4+ you need to double...treble up, eg 2 lamb cutlets for £22 and, therefore, we paid £44 for one each!