Coho — Restaurant in Harlow

Saturday night and late booking so we took the 8.45 spot. On first impressions although in openness I have eaten here before it is quite pretentious. There is parking outside and that's a plus but very cramped. We arrived earlier hoping the table would come free sooner as we don't usually eat this late. At 9.20 after sitting in the waiting area for nearly an hour and after asking we were shown to a table that had clearly been empty for a while since no one had left whilst we were there. Sitting in reception we had been given menus and offered drinks. Mine came up wrong simple lemonade and cordial £5 but given soda and cordial which was exchanged. My daughter had small glass of wine.

On the table is bread and butter. Nice touch. Eventually they came to get our order by this point we just had mains. The menu is great by the way but not cheap. Average main is about £23. We saw the waiter give our food to the next table where they tried it before realising that they hadn't ordered the lamb and the waiter took it back to the kitchen. About 2 minutes later or less it miraculously reappeared at our table. To be fair we asked and was told the lamb would be pink it wasn't. It was slightly overcooked and my lamb rump was cold. The lamb cutlets were well done and tough.

Overall presentation great. We were hungry so ate it anyway. It would have been an incredible meal if it was hot and not overcooked.

We didn't have desert as by then it was 10pm and as mentioned before I can't eat really late. On the bill they had overcharged for 2 glasses of wine which was sorted without apology when we challenged it.

Personally I don't think the staff care particularly or maybe they were tired by this point but it was overall a disappointing experience.

As for the restaurant its def not a jeans turn up as you feel type of place. Make an effort. The menu looks good but the food didn't live upto expectations. £75 for two mains...

Great food. Excellent helpful but unobtrusive staff - our wine glasses was topped up just at the right time.

Loved the butter curls that reminded me of my mother as growing up butter was always curled.

We had the set menu of two courses. My partner had a large helping of lovely fresh duck salad with cucumber, orange segments, croutons, redcurrant & orange balsamic dressing followed by an equally large helping of belly pork with crackling mash potatoes with savoy cabbage, bacon and a jus - which I finished for her.

I had Portobello mushroom topped with gruyere cheese & breadcrumbs with red onion marmalade followed by the fish of the day - delicious Sea bass with crisp skin, fresh al dente asparagus and sautéed...

It was good up until the pudding, when I asked for custard instead of ice cream on my sticky toffee pudding. And instead of just doing a straight swap they decided to remove the toffee sauce as well!!!! So pudding was a disaster. The worst thing was, I didn't know whether it was just a poor sticky toffee pudding (which didn't have sauce) or whether they just didn't add the sauce. Either way, they lost a star because of this. Rest of the food was good....oh..except for the fact that they only served SIX(!!) chips with my fillet steak. I was livid (and is why they lost another star). Apart from that, the food was great (as was the...