Food
I knew I was onto a good thing when I tasted the Bread with butter that was laid out for us. Soft and fresh, simple really, but surprising how many people get it wrong. We decided to skip entrees in favour of the yummy sounding desserts. So, for mains, I ordered Saltmarsh lamb cutlets, aubergine puree, slow roast tomato, rosemary mash and port wine sauce (£13.95) 3 pieces of tender, still pink and juicy cutlets, accompanied by aubergine puree, a huge slab of creamy mash. The only letdown was probably a huge flavourless tomato, which was actually cooked very well and just let down by the ingredient. Slokky had the Chargrilled 12 oz aged Scotch Rib of beef cutlet with green peppercorn sauce (£22.95) a huge and generous piece of steak that was scotched at just the right places. The accompanying sauce and huge pile of fantastic, very golden chips made it a struggle to finish. The vegetable salad was fresh but didn’t seem to have been dressed.
Desserts were written up on a blackboard, but for some reason, the blackboard was not correct, and we had to look at the menu instead? Anyway, the menu sounded yummy so we didn’t mind. The Hot chocolate fondant with vanilla ice cream and caramelised bananas (£3.95) – yum. Rich dark chocolate, lovely vanilla bean ice cream….the bananas weren’t that caramalised but were nice anyway. The Valhona Chocolate brownie with orange crème fraiche (£3.95), though, sounded much better than it was. The crème fraiche was a bit boring and the brownie a bit too sweet.
Rating - 7.5
Atmosphere
I love The Prince Albert. Downstairs is a casual and lively bar, with a fantastic but very crowded beer garden. Upstairs, an open dining room with mismatched wooden chairs and table, chandelier, big windows, gold mirrors. The dining room was full on this Thursday night, and no wonder, with these prices I’ll be surprised if they are not packing them in every night.
Rating - 2.5
Service
It’s a bit more casual than a restaurant, but they delivered where it counted. I was made to feel very comfortable, the food arrived in good time (not too fast and not too slow) and the waiter made sure everything was ok, but only did it once and was genuine about it. They did make a mistake on the bill but that was fixed up very quickly.
Rating - 4
C-factor
Even without the 50% off and the free bottle of house wine (worth £13), I would still say it was good value. Our bill for 3 came to £34.61 including service, which was absolutely fantastic.
Rating - 2
Brownie Points - 16
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NW1 0SG
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