I had never been out for Valentines Day before, so I was a little dubious about spending an evening surrounded by other couples. People always say that first impressions mean a lot and Galvin most definitely made a good one. We were warmly greeted as we entered and were quickly shown to our table and of course it is hard not love the breath taking the views.

We were told that we would have one waiter assigned to us for the evening and he was introduced to us, however this was clearly not the case as we were served by a variety of people and I quickly forgot who had been assigned to us in the first place. Though this was not as irritating as it may sound, as all the waiting staff were friendly and polite, but not in a formal and stiff way.

All of the food was absolutely sensational and I honestly cannot think of any way to fault it. We had a ham hock with carrot foam Amuse Bouche; I was blown away by how they had managed to capture such a strong carrot flavour in the foam. I then had goat’s cheese curd, with baby vegetables, which was beautifully presented like a vegetable patch and almost looked too good to eat.

The Foie Gras was surprisingly unrich, which meant that I was able to eat a lot more than I normally would, which as far as I am concerned is never a bad thing. The main was a small piece of fillet steak, served on beef cheek, which left me feeling utterly spoilt and just to top it off there was the most delicious reduction and perfect creamed potato. This was all accompanied by a wonderful bottle of Alamos, an Argentinean, Cabernet Sauvignon.

In between courses I paid a visit to the loos, which turned out to be the only disappointment of the evening, as there was toilet roll all over the floor and with only two loos in there one hoped that one of them would be nice and clean, but this was not the case. As I returned to the table the dessert arrived, which was a heart shaped chocolate mousse covered in gold leaf and I thought that maybe they had taken Valentine’s… More