Four of us decided to eat there one Saturday night.
1. We wanted to have a bar meal, but the combination of very noisy TV and screaming kids sent us to the restaurant.
2. For the pre-dinner drinks the gin and tonics were flat with not a single bubble and the dry white wine spritzer had lemonade, not soda water. This was corrected.
3. For the starters, the smoked salmon was off, the melon was a pile of ill-assorted off cuts of melon with a few barely thawed red berries and the soup looked like barrel scrapings.
4. For the main course, the monkfish was actually quite good, but the medium steak looked like a slice of roast beef that had been fried - it may have been medium at some very early stage of its cooking process.
5. We were not offered any wine or further drinks.
6. The staff did not appear to know anything about the dishes on the menu - every question had to be referred to the chef.
7. The chef (looking a bit scruffy) wandered round to a few tables - we expressed our dissatisfaction - he blamed the sous-chef (apparently from Poland) - wrong answer - he is the chef and should carry the responsibility.
8. I tried to pay with a credit card, but was told I would have to go to reception to use it.
9. There was no apology or anything off the bill for our poor meal - it's as if they didn't care in the slightest.
Establishments like this do not deserve to succeed and I feel particularly embarrassed about it being Scottish. Someone else mentioned this place being in a time warp - perhaps Basil Fawlty trained here?
Dreadful restaurant - avoid at all cost!









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