Colin's Reviews

I have eaten here before a few times and always been happy. Local food, focus on game – cooked well.

I went again yesterday and found the place has moved up many notches – targeting a star maybe? The food presentation was top restaurant class – the food was perfect on every plate.

We had the potted rabbit and the ox tongue to start – the ox tongue i had was the most tender meat and the most tender cooked tongue i have ever eaten. Good depth of flavour and cooked to perfection – melting and falling apart.

For mains i had the belly of pork and my friend had the duck. The belly pork was cooked to perfection – very tender and not at all dry – the most tender pork i have eaten. Depth of flavour was again there – as to the duck this was again the most tender i have eaten – cooked pink but light in colour and the skin not chewy which is the challenge.

We were too full for desserts so i cannot comment other than to say the selection was good. Service was impeccable, attentive, friendly and knowledgeable. we arrived early and that was no problem for them.

If you have been here before but not recently go back you will see a lot of change from what was already good! If you have not been start going!

Price £70 for two with 2 beers and 2 glasses of wine.

It is nice to find a restaurant with well spaced tables and good noise suppression (carpets and textured walls) – makes for pleasant conversation!

The food was wonderful – a twist for each dish in terms of the spices which may not be for all – but we found worked very well.

We shared the starters Langoustine, Fois gras and ravioli – could not fault any of them. This is rich food. The mains were goose and the two course pork, Desserts came in the form of Rice Soufflé, chocolate tart, and parsnip tart. The parsnip cream start by itself was wrong, but when combined with the vanilla ice cream and caramel came together beautifully – was a delight. The pre dessert of granny smith jelly, with chestnut mouse and celeriac mousse was divine. The only thing that we all agreed did not work was one of the sweet treats with the coffee – a smoked fudge – tasted like eating the remnants of a piece of fudge that fell into the ash of a fire – too smokey!

This is a restaurant for meat eaters who like rich food – the focus of the plate is definitely the meat which was generous with very delicate and interesting sauces and artistic accompliments.

The restaurant manager, Azedine was very helpful, very knowledgeable with the wine and always on hand to help without being unobtrusive.

This is three star quality but some of the non standard spicing may just keep those traditional Michelin inspectors from going for the third -I hope not!