The Longstore Lemon Street — Restaurant in England

A very cozy and pleasant restaurant. I had the Padrón Peppers, Davidstow Cheddar & Jalapeño Fritters, Elderflower Cooler, Mac & Cheese Burger with a Blackened Sweet Potato on the side. Others on my table had the seasonal green veg, truffle mac & cheese and fries as their sides.

Portion sizes are smaller for starters and standard for mains. The menu is a little on the pricier side. The Padrón Peppers were mild on the spice scale, and enjoyable with the Romesco served. The fritters however reminded me of Arancini; and its pairing with the hot harissa honey was a most welcome surprise for me. Definitely consider trying the fritters, the peppers are pretty standard and missable, so wouldn’t bother with those again.

However, the burger was incredibly filling (and a bit of a challenge to finish off!) the Mac & cheese “patty” was super crispy on the outside and incredibly cheesy on the inside. I think this burger does need a few pickled veggies on the side, included with the burger and not as an extra purchase, as a palette cleanser. I was a bit underwhelmed to be served just a burger as I usually do expect a small portion of fries or sauces with it.

The blackened sweet potato was delicious; I especially enjoyed the avocado sour cream and crispy onions on top. They balance out the flavours. However I don’t recommend pairing it with the mac & cheese burger as it makes the whole meal much heavier. A lighter side like the seasonal green veg is a better option (although the veg could be steamed for a little longer and seasoned a little more.)

I didn’t taste the truffle mac & cheese as I’m not a fan of truffle– however, others at my table who tried it enjoyed it to the fullest with no negative feedback. So can recommend this if you’re a fan of truffle; but again, bear in mind it is a heavy side and a decent portion.

The elderflower cooler was refreshing, but a lot more sour than expected. With elderflower drinks I expect that concentrated sweetness, but this primarily tasted like lemonade in my humble opinion.

Aside from this, very lovely service and an even more relaxing atmosphere in the restaurant. It’s not an incredibly vegetarian/vegan friendly place, but I would gladly return to try the other options...

We've eaten here loads, and never experienced a bad meal here until this evening - a family meal for my Birthday, ruined!

From start to finish it was a disaster so say the least. The waitress was rude and didn't seem interested or helpful. Starters eventually came out (calamari) was like dried up, chewwy bits of rubber that had been battered and fried. Empty bits of batter too! The price you pay, you'd expect something edible. Once plates removed, we had complained but got nothing but a smug grin and 'okay'!

Asked if we would like another drink, 2 ordered wine, they got slammed down on the table without a word.

Mains took forever to come out, it wasn't overly busy! When they did we had to keep asking for more cutlery. 4 of us had cod - mine came out raw (translucent and resisted flaking). All food served on stone cold plates too.

Chips were tepid - as for triple cooked, they tasted like they'd been fried in dirty oil, and as probably re dunked over and over again (more than triple cooked), were soaked in grease. Better chips in burger King!

By the time I had my meal re cooked, everyone had already finished. Was really bland and a complete rip off for the money paid unlike previous times. The cod still wasn't as hot as a meal should be, and again another freezing cold plate so no wonder!

Birthday cake came with no knife to cut it? Plates followed no cutlery again, followed by spoons? No forks available?

All staff failed to ask how the meal was, even with complaints, probably knew it was such a shambles. No one offered to take any of the food off the bill, and to top it all off when about to leave, we received no thank you or goodbye.

We left a big tip - sort your staff manners out and get a new chef! Bring back how it used to be!

This was a family favourite since you opened..

Now it's absolutely awful and will not...

One of the worst and I mean worst experiences me and my wife have had dining out .. we was shown to our table eventually was served asking would we like a drink ? We ordered a bottle of wine .. then waited and waited and then we were asked would we like to order our food ? Which to our response was yes but can we have our wine we ordered as well ? So the waitress said yes sorry I’ll ask them for it .. then we waited again and waited and waited… my starter came and I asked can we have our wine we ordered ?? . to which she said I’ll check .. we waited again and then I had to get up and go to the bar and ask were is the wine we ordered 20 mins ago ? The waitress asked were are we sitting ? So I explained.. then I sat Down and we waited and waisted yet again my wife then went and asked were is our wine ?? We then had a waitress come over with a bottle of wine apologised and opened it to which it was the wrong wine it was a red wine when we ordered a rose wine and we told her so she went to change it … 10 more minutes later we had to go and ask again because we was forgot about and asked were is our wine ?? Because we’re still waiting .. eventually another waitress came back with a bottle of wine apologising showed us the bottle and yet again was wrong to which she explained we’ve changed our menu so the one we want isn’t available.. so by then we’d had enough so we got up and walked out .. I’m sure they thought we probably was just holiday makers due to our accent. But we’ve lived here 11 years and dine out a lot and thought we’d try this place for my wife’s birthday… well thanks a million you spoiled it totally and I’d recommend giving this place a wide birth due to poor poor poor service I can’t be I’ve had to give it a 1 star to get on here vector...