I’d recommend hiring someone to fix the broken tap too. Three cubicles, one with masses of water on the floor, one with a broken toilet seat and overflowing sanitation bin and the third, least offensive had no toilet roll holder. Whatever you do, do not use their toilets. They were kind enough to knock off the price of the coffee when we paid the bill and mentioned this. I had to use a napkin to wrap around the glass to drink the coffee. The latte I ordered came in a normal cold drink glass… no handle… on a saucer that it didn’t fit on so slid about precariously. The food was Luke warm/cold when it arrived, it tasted ok though.
We were given a bottle of water with mould/dirt on the inside. But the place was dirty and unhygienic in my opinion.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t appreciate the aesthetic they were going for. On the flip side, I also realise hospitality is brutal but if you can’t hide your resentment for people do something else. I’m very sympathetic to struggling hospitality venues but felt a bit done by this place and its price-gouging nonetheless.Īs an aside I want people to be tipped for good service and I’m sure this place’s owners, City Pub Group, scalp their staff’s tips but I want the opportunity to add it, nor for it to be on the bill automatically. What’s all this got to do with the cost of living crisis? It looked like the menu was done on the cheap and the staff are bargain basement to save cost all round, while the cost of the meal was clearly pumped by inflation. £8 to add a desiccated bit of sea bass to soggy pumpkin salad? FIVE POUNDS for a Virgin Mary? It’s not that it’s unaffordable to pay £95 for lunch for two but the quality didn’t justify the cost. Two other staff members who attended our table were clearly ambivalent too.Ī long wait for service of a menu that looked good but didn’t fail to disappoint: the burrata was okay but the smoked salmon tasted like Tesco’s value and a kebab which sounded very appealing amounted to a dollop of lukewarm shredded chicken on a flatbread with some incongruous balsamic glaze and a slice of massive soggy tomato. The venue is attractive enough but on arrival we were shown to our table by a guy who clearly didn’t want to be. I think this is a venue struggling with the cost of living crisis: lacklustre food and utterly uninterested staff on the whole.
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