Alice's Reviews

Went there for my special treat from my boyfriend on my birthday. When I heard that he's taking me to a michelin star restaurant I was very excited. And I searched the internet and wanted to pre-decide what I was going to have, but found many bad reviews. Well, different people have different views so I just ignored them.

When we arrived the restaurant, everything seemed fine. There's a very pretty receptionist welcomed us in and showed us the table. Very well positioned table in the middle of the dinning room. They have very good wine list but not the cocktails, a bit average list. Everything went smooth and lovely until a waitress, a manager and another waitress came and introduced us their food and, this was what put me off, telling us how to eat Chinese food. If we were dummies from Big Brother house, it sounds reasonable, but we were clearly CHINESE couple and speak in Chinese in a top end Chinese restaurant. it should told them we were going to be ok with our food and we know how to eat it. But three times telling us how to share the food?

We started ordering, I ordered ‘Chang Sha’ Prawns, the menu says “A tightly kept secret recipe combining 15 ingredients named after the region of Hunan where our Head Chef served his apprenticeship”. I love Hu Nan dishes, they are the most spicy dishes in China. But when the prawns arrived, it looked very well placed, but only 6 prawns. For £22 it seemed bit expensive, but I thought if the taste is good, it worth it. However, not at all, it tasted like Sweet and Sour Prawns, and not spicy at all, it was very sweet. I don't know where were the 15 secret ingredients their Head Chef learnt from, I am sure he learnt it from a Chinese takeaway when he came to the UK years ago. It was a disaster.

And my boyfriend ordered the Ostrich with Spring Onions in Oyster Sauce. It was again very bland. The ostrich meat was very tender, but the sauce was very normal, it was just black bean with oyster sauce that we could get from any Chinese… More