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😒 3/5 - Good menu ideas, poor execution
By 👻 @AverageExpectation, 07/03/2021 3:00 am
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The restaurant is quite a quirky one; it has a slightly more industrial interior, which felt clean and modern. No marks lost for this, although as a personal preference I hate cans of napkins and cutlery. It isn’t a very expensive restaurant but isn’t cheap either. I want my cutlery to be placed for me, and the napkins could’ve been better quality.
The small plates provided on the table are mismatched, and again I kind of don’t like this. I think a lot of restaurants try to pass this off as charm and quirkiness, but it’s just an excuse to not have to maintain matching sets of crockery. A bit cheap.
The service wasn’t very attentive, but was friendly and helpful when you needed something. There wasn’t much checking in to make sure everyone was OK, so expect to have to flag someone down if you need something.
The food was a mixed bag, in some respects. We ordered:
Arancini
A ‘nduja slider
Garlic bread
The above three dishes are small plates.
We also ordered a margarita pizza and a chicken dish which comes with a buttery lemon and caper sauce and some kind of greens. We got some fries with Parmesan.
The arancini was nice, along with the accompanying sauce. The cheese wasn’t to my taste, but that was personal preference. It was hot, crispy on the outside and soft and squishy on the inside. A good arancini.
The chicken dish was quite nice, and something different to a lot of the menus around; it’s not a ground breaking dish in terms of its contents but it was a dish done well and was good home comfort food.
The remainder left something to be desired.
The ‘nduja slider was a bit disappointing on three fronts. The patty was not very big, and didn’t cover the surface area of the bun, so it was very bready and overwhelmed by lots of rocket and the pepperonata was slightly drowned out by how much bread there was. The second issue was the patty was only moderately warm; I’m sure it was cooked fresh but it had the temperature of something that was left sitting in a hot cupboard. The third issue was, given the kind of meat it is, it was surprisingly dry. The slider, overall was not good, and quite overpriced.
The garlic bread tasted great, and was a generous portion. Unfortunately it was again not particularly warm, almost like it was sitting too long before being served to us.
The margarita pizza was good. It had a nice base, tomato sauce and mozzarella. It wasn’t as warm as one would hope, but it tasted nice. However, I couldn’t help but notice that Green’s pizza was right beside the restaurant, and for the same price could have had a pizza that was hotter and also maybe tasted nicer still.
The chips were OK. They were seemingly from frozen and I always find this incredibly lazy, particularly when charging £4.50. Some restaurants I’ve been to at least pick a slightly more expensive seeming frozen chip, but some very nice restaurants do very nice hand cut chips which aren’t much different in price.
Overall I don’t doubt that the ideas for the menu are good. However it feels like the execution is slightly off. Overall, my comment would be to say it felt like a bunch of seasoned home cooks got together and tried to run a restaurant and it feels like they need to take a day off and really refine their delivery of the food.
I didn’t dislike the food, but there wasn’t any of the food which I said ‘this is really delicious’ and likewise nothing beside the arancini I found worth the price. I likely won’t return, and I wouldn’t recommend it to a friend.
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