The Woodspeen Restaurant

Food : 5/5 | Service : 5/5 | Atmosphere : 5/5 More
May 3rd, 2023

Beautiful space in lovely surroundings. The service was also excellent. The food wouldve been top notch if it it werent for the fact that nearly every dish had elements that were just far too salty.
Apr 30th, 2023

Really underwhelming experience. I liked the idea of the subtle, unpretentious cooking and flavours on offer here, but sadly this manifested itself as blandness. We ordered off both the set and the a la carte menu. The set menu was really poor and doesn't represent good value at all. Off said set menu was a dish of poached hake with a 'sherry sauce', how very vague, it was a white sauce so fino or Manzanilla I guess, who cares as you wouldn't be able to tell it had sherry in it, just a white wet garlic sauce. Maybe a splash of fino at the end to give that yeasty tang would have helped. Other duds were a pigeon ballotine served cold that was fairly bland and, ermmm, cold - fridge cold pigeon is a strange thing to eat, the accompanying root-ey bits were fine but no more. To finish we shared a chocolate tart, the pastry was too thick and was nor crumbly, nor short. The warm chocolate sauce it had been filled with lacked any real depth and texturally was all too similar to the one you buy from the supermarket for children to squirt over some soft scoop. Balsamic was mentioned and did occur, as a miniscule amount on top of the milk ice cream, easily dispensed of by one small movement of a teaspoon, why bother!? It wasn't all doom and gloom, the lamb rump dish from the a la carte was good - meltingly tender, well rested pink lamb and the agreeable flavours of the accompanying things were nice. And that's the problem here for me, it's all a bit nice and unassuming, but the lack of novelty leaves you with nothing when things don't come together, and that happened in four of five dishes for us. I will say the service is good and the room is nice and tasteful, but maybe, as with the food, some fireworks wouldn't go amiss.
Apr 30th, 2023

Food : 5/5 | Service : 4/5 | Atmosphere : 4/5 More
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