Angela H certainly knows her stuff and likes to lead from the front. She was on the serving hatch all night this week when we enjoyed excellent if expensive food there on Monday evening. Unfortunately I didn't feel very well the next day and can only hope this had nothing to do with her habit of tasting every dish with a spoon. Now clearly this is great in terms of quality control but tasting EVERY DISH, HERSELF with the SAME SPOON? All I can say is we better hope she hasn't got swine flu or something worse.

So my very respectful tasting tip for Angela would be use lots of spoons or to rinse and dry the single spoon between tastes. This would be better than the current system which seems to involve an occasional wipe of the spoon on the back of her apron.

Apart from this the food and wine were excellent and the service good and I got over my stomach issues within 24 hours.