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Whytes:
Had a very tasty meal tonight, left dinner very satisfied. The dressings and sauces at Whytes are a cut above.
Grilled potato sourdough, butter.
Good chew, charred with intention and a confident amount of salt, unremarkable butter (15/20)
Fried oysters, buttermilk, grumolo.
3 oysters, excellent creamy dressing on the salad, with good bitter salad leaf (17/20)
Pan roasted scallops, peas, ham.
I’m a big fan of scallops and these scallops were well executed, very delicious and sweet with a lovely crust. Peas and greens in a puddle of butter (or olive oil), which is fair enough if you want the scallops to speak for themselves. (15/20)
Florida smash, prawn cocktail burger sauce, grilled pineapple.
Great burger sauce, and the pineapple was cooked until sweet and caramelised. I thought it was just prawn cocktail sauce and only realised there was prawn in the burger (I think) after eating half the burger. Burger patty itself was not smashed in the way I was expecting. (15/20) Also note we asked the kitchen to cut our burger in half so it doesn’t look as it is regularly served
Pan roasted partridge, marmalade and mustard sauce, bacon, dill (tonight was partridge instead of quail).
That sauce was crack 20/20. Beautifully creamy, sweet, fresh with dill and small bites of savoury lardons. Heavenly sauce. Served with partridge but would have honestly preferred a humble piece of juicy chicken. I could drink the sauce. (16/20 for the sauce and partridge together)
No sweet dessert options on the menu tonight
Very smoky inside the restaurant.. overheard something something the restaurant wasn’t fitted with an expensive ventilator.. perhaps it broke recently.. the previous occupiers didn’t have such extravagant cooking.. I left dinner smelling like I myself had been barbecued
15/01/25 at 7pm for two at the bar. Thank you to the lovely staff and chefs.