The Contented Sole — Restaurant in Scotland

Hi,

This was my second visit to the Sole and it wasn't one I'd like to remember.

I went there for a meal as I had been for one previously, then i would have scored it ten out of ten.

The starter was great value for money as was the main course which was a sirloin steak, that steak was the best I'd ever tasted from any I had ever had before.

That was the main reason I went back again for a meal. Once again the starter was amazing but the main course was a disaster.

Had asked for the steak to be a medium to well done, it came more like medium to rare as it was just pink on the inside.

Mentioned this to the young girl that served the meal, she took it back to the kitchen, ten minutes later it was back again, my steak was like burnt and dried out, my wife's was still the exact same inside... pink.

The veg was stone cold and the only thing that had been changed from the meals that had been returned were the chips, they were freshly cooked and not like the rest which was reheated.

Can't fault the young girl that had served us as she was so apologetic, she never charged us for the main meals which was appreciated if not expected.

I don't know if I will be going back to the Sole again because of this experience, if they had cooked us a fresh meal and not just tried to reheat the original one, then I would have given the sole a five out of five, I only gave them a three out of five because of the amazing starter and because of the lovely service received from the young...

Absolutely abysmal experience. Creaky floorboards and a narrow gloomy staircase leading up to the restaurant. Not to mention the fact that the crappers were right beside the dine in area so the stench of logs was pungent throughout the whole joint, completely ruining the entire atmosphere. Come the drinks, My vodka n' Coke had about 2ml of vodka in it. At first I didn't even think they'd added any in, genuinly just absurdly shocking amounts of vodka being added in. Next, the food, we'd ordered 3 plates which took 53 MINUTES TO ARRIVE and in that time we'd witnessed 5 other tables of people arrive AND recieve their food before us. My eventual steak was cooked medium well even though id asked for RARE!!! which i think was done to hide the fact that it was both frozen and showed signs of rotting as it tasted like meat flavoured sand paper. The caustic meat had riddled me with severe food poisoning which then lead to crohns disease. What I had to accommodate my rotting cow arse was half a bag of brids eye frozen peas dumped on the side coming straight from the microwave with a pool of defrosted ice to go underneath it, 4 frozen garlic mushrooms, 2 half decent onion rings and just to rub salt in the wound, 2 mouldy rings. The chips were okay but all in all, come to Contented Sole if you want to test your immune system against corrosive...

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