Salut

"Watch out for the exclamation mark! It is a precursor to what follows. Starters these days tend to start in double digits and for these sort of prices you would expect something special. When a plate of essentially cold veg can outshine a very delicate crab dish then you know you are in for a rollercoaster of a ride. Crab and avocado under seasoned and not a hint of chilli on the sparse chilli croutons, the only thing being that the dish looked pretty. Charred Turnip and salted hazelnuts were the star of the other starter yet for a hefty £11 did not deliver much in value terms. Things were greatly improved when a bottle of Puglian Sud Del Sud arrived. This rich dark red cracker of a wine went with everything we had. Well what can we say about the mains! Yes that exclamation mark again. Pretty much forgettable in that the cockles with wild cod were more empty cockle shells with cod. The parsley crust looked like the 18th green at Wentworth with next to zero flavour of parsley. I wonder what happened. The unexpected highlight was a generous bowl of roast potatoes at £5 to you geezer thank you very much. Cold desserts left us with the cheese as our only option. And this was probably the highlight of the whole evening. If it wasn’t for the Eat Out campaign then this whole experience would have been too overpriced. In the end it was just !!!!!"