What Restaurant did you eat at last night?

Went to chicken cottage in south woodford, essex, last night.

Had a chicken burger and chips with wings on the side. And a can of 7up.

Was very tasty and satisfied my beer fuelled hunger, a little spice on the wings was a lovely addition. The service was brilliant, the guy in there is always up for a bit of banter and bargaining.

Overall experience, 8/10.
 
Went to Cambridge last weekend and ate at The Snug for lunch on the Sunday. Had a nice bacon cheeseburger with chunky chips and a 'yogi bear' smoothie. The place was quiet but had a good ambience and friendly staff. On the subject of Gourmet Burger Kitchen I can confirm the one in Cambridge is dire too, ate there a few months ago and the food wasn't that tasty and I felt hungry afterwards.
 
Lamora, in Glasgow.
Me and the lady went out for dinner. Just wanted a no nonsense but nice Italian.
The food was pretty good, I had Carpaccio followed by Veal wrapped in Parma Ham and then a Tiramisu for desert. She had Goats Cheese, then a Pasta thingy and had some of my pudding. Decent portions, and tasty. The service however, was somewhat lacking.
Two waitresses, and one Italian bloke - A kind of maître d'.
One of the waitresses was quite brash, didn't offer to take our coats when we arrived and was slow to offer us a drink. Weren't asked how our meal was when eating or asked if we wanted more drinks.
The Italian bloke was fine, stereotypical Italian bloke really. Rushing around and chatting to people.
Another contentious issue was that the bread basket and oils cost £3.

It was a nice meal, and she enjoyed it but I feel the service was lacking. Wouldn't go back.
Ended up £70 for 2 starters, two mains, one pudding, one coffee, one G&T, one bottle of wine and 2 glasses of wine.
 
Sagalout said:
Went to Le Manoir at the weekend. Absolutely stunning in every way (no doubt helped by the weather). Had the 5 course menu - would have gone for the tasting menu but my wife can't eat fish.

The service and food was unbelievable to be honest - totally spoilt us for going anywhere else in a while!

http://www.manoir.com/web/olem/le_manoir.jsp
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Brilliant isn't it. Have been to eat a couple of times and stayed last year, which was amazing (was a treat for the wife as first weekend away following having a baby).

On Friday I had lunch at the waterside inn - had the taster menu. I think it was probably the best food experience I've had. Loved every minute and the service staff were brilliant. Totally faultless.

http://www.waterside-inn.co.uk/
 
I had a slightly drunken night in Marco Pierre White's Steak and Alehouse over the weekend. Must say that when comparing this to other steak houses within London - both individual and chain steak restaurants - I'd have to say that this place was pretty disappointing (and as such, comparatively expensive).

- The starters were certainly the saving grace, and the selection was quite broad.

- The four of us shared two chateaubriand. Not impressed, and would prefer to have the same meal at somewhere like Chez Gerard!

- Wine. We stupidly went expensive, but you know what you're getting when that happens.

Overall a 5/10. Unimpressed.
 
xarr said:
Yup no surprise there, GBK is terrible. The North is missing the best burger joint in the UK; Byron. From the horses mouth, every bit is true.
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I visited a GBK for the first last month when I was in Leeds for work. I thought my Pestorello burger was very good and really enjoyed the fresh banana milkshake.

As a seperate review...

Six of us visited HOST in Liverpool for some post Grand National food. My starter was ribs which were very sticky and excellent. Main was the pork penang curry with sweet potato, mangetout and jasmine rice - very, very tasty and spot on for portion size. Sorbet to finish and that went down a treat as well.

Everyone enjoyed the food and beers, so 9/10. One point lost for the waiter trying to remove empty dishes from the main course before we'd all finished (it's a bit of pet hate of hours).
 
My girlfriend and I went to Kai in Mayfair a couple of weeks ago.

Food was excellent and the restaurant certainly deserves it's Michelin star. It's not your average Chinese restaurant, but the menu does have some of the 'take-away classics' with their own twist on them. The service was very quick and professional, as you would expect from a restaurant of this quality.

To start we had aromatic crispy beancurd and the oriental mushroom salad. For mains we had the 'spice route chai' and 'chang sah chai' which were both amazing and with them we had steamed rice and egg noodles.

For dessert, we had a mandarin chocolate fondant and 'sunshine dumplings', both of which were simply superb. Too often you find restaurants that slack a bit on their desserts and put all the focus into the mains, however this wasn't the case with Kai. Never have I had such a superb dessert!

The wine list was extensive and really spoils you for choice with it's great vintages and varieties which shows it has been very carefully put together. It has a very good selection of wines by the glass which makes it much easier selecting a different wine for each course for a small party.

With the starter and main course we had glasses of a 2007 German Riesling (my favourite white and vintage), a glass of sweet French Petit Manseng with dessert and I had a digestif of Remy Martin VSOP.

We paid £150 in total including a 12.5% service charge. It was certainly worth every penny and it's definitely a restaurant we will be returning to. I rate it 10/10, couldn't fault it.
 
I went to the Bel Sit an Italian restaurant in Woodford. Great place with a great vibe.

Went with my girlfriend, we had some garlic bread to share then a main course and desert each with a bottle of red. Only came to £48.
 
Went back to parents and had a steak at a local pub(the pear tree) which recently changed hands :eek: omg it was good.
Triple cooked chips
Biggest onion rings you have ever seen
And proper 28day hung Aberdeen Angus rib eye steak, with a chef who new how to cook it.

Pure sex on a plate.
 
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Went to The Star Inn at Harome Nr Helmsley in North Yorkshire last weekend. Setting was lovely, food was...... average, which i wasnt expecting from a Michelin Star restaurant and Gastropub of the year.

The starter i had of Black Pudding and Foie Gras with Vanilla and Apple chutney was nice except i found the foie gras slightly under cooked. We moved onto the main course, i had a Vension loin served on garlic mash with a small vension cottage pie on the side, overall quite nice though the cottage pie overshadowed the loin with it's rich flavours. Overall i liked my main course.

We had 2 women in our party who had Pork Belly (they asked before ordering and were told it was a nice crispy cut), to be quite frank, if they had labelled it Pork Fat it would have been a better decription, i know my cuts and the part of the belly they used was the bit that is mainly fat with some thin slivers of meat running through it. It was undercooked to the point that the fat was 'wet', they would have been far better using a slightly leaner piece of belly and slicing it thinner (the piece was about 2 inches thick). Considering we paid close to £400 for 6 people including two bottles of wine, i didnt consider this acceptable so i mentioned it to the waitress. She went back into the kitchen and returned with the comment from the chef "That's how pork belly is, fatty, and to be honest it's something i would expect a bloke to order not a woman and blokes dont complain about fat!!"..............

Needless to say we wont be going back there!
 
Went to Pollen Street Social last night.

Overall, it was a bit hit and miss. The first thing that surprised me was that the menu seemed very much a standard 3 course type affair. I noticed there was a note at the bottom saying you could make a tasting menu from the starters if you liked, but there wasn't that many that stood out on the menu compared to the mains.

I ended up going with the quail with chicken liver which was excellent, followed by a main course of ox cheek & tonuge. The ox cheek was rather dissapointing - it was incredibly tender but it didn't have a great deal of flavour. The cote de boeuf that 2 of my friends shared was more impressive and I quite enjoyed the pork & beetroot dish my other friend had.

For desserts we were offered to sit at the dessert bar, but given there were 4 of us we couldn't really see it working very well given we'd have to sit in a row, so instead had them at the table. The tiramisu was nice, but the berry cheesecake was a little dissapointing - I found the ginger a bit overpowering.

What did annoy me though was when we had finished our mains, a couple came and sat at the next table and upon delivering the menu, the waiter explained that you could have half portions of the main courses for half price etc. and create a tasting menu this way. We weren't told anything like this - the menu was just given to us with no explanation, and they didn't exactly make it clear on there what the situation was. It's a shame as I certainly would have liked to have tried some of the other main courses.

I'm sure I'll give it another go at some point, it's an interesting concept, but it's still a bit rough around the edges
 
Went to Jamie's Italian (Jamie Oliver's chain) in Glasgow this evening.

Was in town, wanted something to eat and it was close by and neither of us had been. Went in, got a table straight away, it was busyish (especially for a Monday at 6) and was pretty busy an hour later.

We only had a main and a desert. I went for the lamb, was on a skewer: shoulder, leg, kidney, liver and heart on top of crushed Jersey spuds. The meat was good, but overall it was a little dry. Needed some sort of sauce. Other diner had the sea bass and thought it was pretty good.
Desert, shared a chocolate and espresso tart with glazed figs and orange crème freche. It was lovely, much better than it looked.

So the food. Certainily OK but nothing great. I wouldn't rush to go back, and I wouldn't go back if I wanted to go out for a nice meal. To pick something up whilst in town or something like that it is totally find.

The service however was terrible. I was left waiting for ages trying to order another glass of wine and when I did, he forgot to bring it over. I saw it sitting at the bar and it took a while to get someone to bring it over. The 'server' took ages to come and ask for our order. Spent at least 10 minutes trying to get the bill. Terrible. Didn't leave a tip.

Overall - Mixed feelings. I think ensuring customers always have a drink and being attentive is very very important and this just wasn't the case. Food was alright and reasonably priced for what it was.
 
Skidder said:
On Friday I had lunch at the waterside inn - had the taster menu. I think it was probably the best food experience I've had. Loved every minute and the service staff were brilliant. Totally faultless.

http://www.waterside-inn.co.uk/
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We're off to the Waterside Inn for the weekend in July which I can't wait for. The following week we're at The Ledbury which will be another gastronomic experience I hope! :D
Last week we went to the first Food and Wine evening at Launceston Place in Kensington. Head chef Tristan Welch served us a stunning 5 course taster meal, and the accompanying Domenico Clerico wines were fantastic. The highlight of the meal was the home cured bacon which was just beautiful.
 
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