Food was decent. Nothing exceptional about it. Atmosphere is great, location is unbeatable, Christmas decorations are lovely.

And that’s really it. Service made it impossible to repeat. 1) I love that it’s giving opportunities to all, but does it have to be a (lovely) non English speaking waitress? I had to settle for “just red wine” as “can I get a wine menu” or “what reds do you have by the glass” was met with “sorry I don’t speak english”. I am also not a native English speaker, I wouldn’t have dreamt of starting off as a waitress. 2) Premise being we were a large group so may not be your issue if you are planning on being 6 or less. We were 20ppl. On a u shaped table. They serve all the food on A.Single.Wooden.Tray… that is literally their whole thing. Said tray then has to be passed around. It is ridiculously heavy, so of course it almost dropped. As a result of this single tray for 20ppl we all ate at different times as we waited for sets of 6 to serve themselves and then pass it. no space to act like it was a buffet. To make matters worse we had to preorder the food weeks in advance, so understandably most had forgotten what they had ordered, it was all on a single tray, what do you even get. Which single tray so no way to assess how many portions were there. Manager claimed there were 14 of the appetisers, but it was the same tray that all other tables got, so not sure how 6ppl had same tray as 20ppl. Also you couldn’t count 14 prosciutto slices, but you could count 30 chillies. So this meant there wasn’t enough to go around. When asked if they could just being the orders individually I was met with “just have all those that ordered the same thing sit close”. I tried to explain that at a restaurant it is the food that needs to be moved to meet the customers and not the customers that need to make it convenient for the food. Also keep in mind that because of the single wooden tray principle: all allergies, vegetarian meals, etc were all served on same tray. Which is absolutely unacceptable. Desserts were “chef’s choice”, and were random broken off pieces of left over cakes and pies. Reminded me of my college days!

This joke of a dinner ended up costing us over £65 per person. Less than half drank (each couple had a designated driver), most left hungry. The tray idea is simply a way for the restaurant to avoid serving actual portions of the food and instead getting loads of fillers to make it look “rich”. Felt taken advantage of. Rude manager. Ridiculous pricing. Avoid.