We went out with Paul’s old mentor from way back when he was an apprentice. We went here and the food was amazing and I don’t get to say that often. We have been lots of times before as it is the in laws favourite place to eat. I have always found it boring…over priced and over rated, and the food very very average. Last night was the complete opposite. They have a new French chef and he has worked wonders with the place. I had a chicken pate starter which was lovely and fresh tasting, not too smooth not too course, the red onion chutney wasn’t as nice as mine, but hey you can’t have everything. For main course I had fillet steak cooked medium rare with a dolcelatte sauce, it was out of this world…amazing!!! For dessert I had vanilla crème brulée which was good. All in all we had a fantastic meal from the scallops in a pernod sauce that Granddad had to the Italian chicken that two of them had for their mains, right through to Paul’s banoffee pie, which was a light and modern version of a traditionally heavy going pud!
I do remember the service was rubbish though, but seen as we were all too busy talking and catching up it didn’t really matter. Service was also very inconsistent, we order two rounds of coffee, first one arrived in big coffee cups, the second round arrived in big mugs when asked if we could have cups again(some of our party have ideas above their station) they brought tea cups!!!! With a staff of teenagers and a very shouty supervisor what can you expect? Atmosphere was good and they didn’t mind that we sat there for absolutely ages. 
