It’s the “interesting and atmospheric” setting – “one of the oldest dining rooms in England” – that makes this city-centre operation of note; fans insist the “traditional” British is “well-prepared” too, but there were also a couple of very ‘down’ reports this year.
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The critic has a “bizarre” lunch at the self-proclaimed “oldest dining room in Britain”. The food is “good, solid and hearty” and “well executed”, but everything else – from the dated décor to the “hellish”, loud folk-rock music – “stinks of cheap”.