Matt S.
Google
Hm. Im not going to sugar coat it. but very disappointing Sunday roast dinner. im just talking about the roast dinner as everything else was great - service, drinks, starters vibe....
To that roast....
• gravy was totally bland, like im talking salty water at best bland. Seemed that they hadnt skimmed off the fat from it and it had consistency of water-really bad im afraid. Really annoying as imo good gravy is the second most important element on the plate after the meat.
• Roast potatoes were boiled new/baby potatoes seemingly finished off in an oven 5 mins. im sorry but not even close to what a great roast potato should be. This i guess is their style of roast potato....so, subjective maybe.
• Roast beef tough and dry although bone marrow was good
• Lamb shank was good in size cooked okish (not fall off the bone, no nice crispy fatty bits - just chewy fatty bits) - but lacked any flavour - some rosemary, garlic that you would expect with roast lamb.
• Roast beef needs horseradish sauce, lamb: mint sauce, pork apple sauce ect. Very disappointing that they didnt have these especially on the lamb which really needs that acidy vinegar touch to cut through the fatty lamb. I mean its always fun and nice to have sauces - oh well.
• Roast veg bland - at this level i expect some love with the roast veg - maybe honey roasted parsnips, carrots , roasted garlic cloves ects. These were simply Veg roasted in oven with some oil.
• In general nothing had been seasoned but fine maybe thats their thing.
• Yorkshire pudding was ok, i guess - but nothing great as they really should be in a place like this and why is there only 1 on the shared veg platter? weird.
Roast dinner DIY ALWAYS better. that said this one was very surprisingly very very bland. oh well.
I dont agree with some reviews on here about the price or value. for me this is good. What isn't good is the execution. Hopefully they can improve. Of course this is all pretty subjective and just my opinion.
Good things
• overall portion size and value for money gd
• Starters - focaccia, olives, oyster. great - focaccia with the butter was plentiful and maybe the best foccaai iv ever had..ultra soft and light.