I had a great experience with the tasting menu here a few years ago. Unfortunately the food and service have now really dropped below what you'd expect for a £75 tasting menu.

The food was the kind of competent I'd be happy with at a upper mid-range restaurant, but wasn't the level I'd expect from a tasting menu at this price. The dishes didn't come together very well, and flavours and ingredients just didn't have any wow factor.

Similarly the service was fine for a normal restaurant but not for this price point. It took 2.5 hours to get through the tasting menu (with no extra dishes), and we weren't eating slowly. After the first two courses came out promptly, we had half an hour waits between courses. Even the desserts which have minimal preparation time (and by that time the restaurant was half empty) took 15-20 minutes. This really killed the enjoyment of the food. We had four different servers across the evening, which doesn't build the attentive and personal service you'd expect from this kind of experience, and might explain why no one seemed to notice how long we were waiting throughout the evening. Drinks were also slow to be served, and a glass of wine was served with cork in it. That was resolved quickly once pointed out, but shouldn't happen for a £20 glass of wine served by a wine specialist. Everyone was polite but it just didn't feel like staff were invested, so I would guess at this being a pay / training / management problem. Unfortunately we didn't have a chance to feed any of this back as no one asked us how everything was while paying the bill.

This is more personal preference, but we also found the restaurant very loud and playing bassy electronic music wasn't the best atmosphere to be able to appreciate good food.

It's a nice space with a lot of potential but sadly just doesn't feel like it's being run with the passion and heart of a lot of other places that do tasting menus for less.