Gavin W.
Yelp
A rather swish new Galician restaurant...no, they weren't pals with the Romulans in Star Trek, it's actually an area of Spain...has materialised into existence on Miller St. It's part of the Rusk and Rusk group which includes Hutcheson's and the Butchershop, so you would expect standards to be high, the service to be good, and the interior to be beautiful. And for the latter two it is true, but what about the food.
Seared hand-dived Orkney scallop, with 5J pork cheek, red pepper soup, morcilla and fried egg. Sounds like a very tasty meal doesn't it. Well no, that was just my £11 starter. I was surprised to see that it was indeed a single scallop, though to give it its dues a very large one, sitting on a black pudding (morcilla). 5J apparently refers to the finest Spanish piggery out there, and the pork cheek was consequently very soft and tasty. The whole thing in fact was quite different and neither the pork nor the scallop was overwhelmed by the "soup" or egg.
We had ordered the bone in prime rib (grade 9 apparently, meaning extreme marbling) of 12-14 years old Galician blond cow - though I assured my partner I would have been quite happy with raven-haired if they'd offered the choice. We were there for lunch so we thought the 800g bit would suffice! You have a choice of 800 or 900g, confusingly expressed in the menu as 8/100g ie. 0.08g, a not inconsiderable difference. Why the hell do that? We have enough to ask about on the menu without them trying to change numerical convention too. I just wish I'd asked the price though, the whole lunch came in at more than £100.
The beef was certainly very nice, a little bit fatty In places as you would expect from the description, I normally shun fat but it wasn't a problem, and the meat was very soft and loose-textured, it was accompanied by truffle fries and a sauce of our choice. All very good, I really liked the fries, they had a good kick about them, and the tasty sauce was just the right consistency to coat the meat. There was a fresh, herbaceous taste to the dish and although I was toying with four stars because of the price, it has just got to be five.