Noreen's review of Bob Bob Ricard

Gosh – I think the previous review on this restaurant is a little unfair! It's fine not to like a restaurant but I don't think the reviewers criticisms are very constructive…

Anyway, we went for the first time yesterday, we hadn't even heard of the restaurant and just stumbled on it on the Square Meal website.

The decor, the uniforms are all well described by other reviewers I just want to get on to the food!!!

Traditional Sunday roast. How many have you had in the UK that are just awful? In some ways I think it is a very difficult meal for a restaurant to get right. Even if it is cooked well, we all have our quirky ways we like it to be served. I hate to have the food piled on a plate, covered in gravy and a huge Yorkshire pudding on the top. I would rather have two smaller servings – but you can't really ask for that in a restaurant can you? Well yes in BBR you can!

After a plate of beautiful Forman's smoked salmon (the best in the world in my opinion) we both ordered the roast of the day which was beef yesterday but I think it changes. The food is served in what looks like a medium sized frying pan, arranged on it is your beef (cooked how YOU like), caramelised carrots and parsnips, cabbage greens, a yorkshire pudding (huge), roast potatoes, and on the side a dish of horseradish sauce and a jug of gravy. So you can arrange what you want on your plate and then tuck in.

I had asked for my beef to be cut extra thin – which it was, we both have beef cooked differently – which it was, the roast potatoes were absolutely perfect, hot and fluffy on the inside and light and crispy on the outside, all browned beautifully – none of your anaemic roasties here! The Angus beef was so tender you could cut through it with the side of your fork.

We both thoroughly enjoyed our lunch, the service was unhurried which is exactly what we wanted at 2pm on a lazy Sunday afternoon. We took our time and savoured every mouthful, and surprisingly managed to polish every morsel off, along with a bottle of red Rioja.

I wish Square Meal had a Best Sunday Roast category on the site, BBR would definitely be at the top along with the Goring Hotel and Notting Grill, which (and I am constantly looking believe me!), are the only three places in London we have managed to have a great lunch that ticks all the boxes.

The restaurant serves all day, they have a great breakfast menu – but we will have to save that for another day!