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🤢 2/5 - All at sea, like the herring
By 👻 @Nipnipcrabee, 10/31/2021 3:00 am
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We had dinner here a few years ago and found it just about passable - albeit expensive - as a top end London dining experience, but our second visit with the same group recently was very disappointing. We ended up here as this was one of the few places that had last minute availability but none of us will return. The space is great and you can hear and be heard, but that’s as good as we get. We all agreed at the end that you can get much better value and an altogether nicer experience elsewhere.
Other restaurants have managed to ramp up again, but we did not have that impression here and we found the service awful. From the surly front of house to the very inexperienced table service, it was a real grind.
A few of us ordered the ‘signature’ herring starter, to be told about 10 minutes later that they were out of stock. And that this should have been clear on the updated menu (via a painful QR code that just links to the website, so how?). We’ll never know if it was due to the orca, the humpback whales, the seals, the diving birds, Brexit, the Suez block, submarine sonar, or was simply a sort of hip comment on climate change or fishing stocks, but last time I bought rollmops from the supermarket they were pickled and had a very long shelf life so it seems very curious to end up running out. What next - no Aquavit?
Of the wine we eventually managed to communicate to our waitress - bless her - we were hurriedly informed by the sommelier (once he finally managed to make his way over to our table) that both a white and a red we had chosen was their last bottle and so we would have to switch next. I get it, but not a great impression. And whilst our waitress was clearly struggling, I would expect her to be trained to call over the sommelier straight away rather than have us spell out each bottle we chose. ‘Is it white or red?’, she would ask as we grew more exasperated.
I ordered a special Aquavit cocktail which, the bar tender completely agreed, was very overpowering and unpleasant. So why not just quickly change it, or advise me against ordering it in the first place?
The bread basket came with about 2 pieces too few of each type to be shared out amongst our group. Awkward.
The (substitute) starters were nothing remarkable, but the salad got the biggest laugh of the evening. It’s a tiny colourful smear down one side of a large plate and looks like an unfinished toddler painting. But apparently tasted ok, albeit in an amuse bouche sort of way.
The mains struck us all as just a bit cynical - they were not bad and not great (and while we’re at it, not hot either), but the portions sizes were small to the point that we were all still hungry at the end. Not very hospitable. But perhaps that is the point of this place now: it’s set up for people to sashay through, post a few snaps to prove they’ve
been, and then move on to their next micro influence. No doubt Made in Chelsea will be scouting this place soon as a location, if not
already.
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