Drake's

This restaurant is outstanding. Hugely inventive and precise cooking, relaxed atmosphere and clever design. If it was in central London the awards would be flooding in. Go!
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9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Monday, February 28, 2011

Someone in the restaurant really didn't want to share the food, although I can understand why. I called up to book a table three times being told that they were completely booked. On the off-chance I called again on the day and was delighted to find they could squeeze me and my friend in. You can imagine my surprise to find that there were only 5 tables seated throughout the night!

What a delightful meal, though. To start, lobster ravioli that melted in the mouth and fois gras that made had my mouth watering.

With such a fantastic entrance into our meal, the main courses had alot to live up to and certainly didn't disappoint. I confess that I couldn't make up my mind about what to have so we ordered three mains between the two of us. A classic venison dish was the thing that will stick in my memory - all the rustic, earthy, sweet flavours you would expect, that had that deer almost dancing in my mouth.

Pudding was a little more creative. Figs and tea. Not an unpleasant combination but I'm still trying to work out whether the peculiar fig jelly-pop should have ever been put on my table. It's not often that the most intellectual stimulation I get from a meal is working out whether the person who put that fig jelly-pop in front of me was extremely clever or completely insane.

Finally a piece of advice I have to pass on when eating a Drakes is to ensure that you leave room for the petite fours.
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Kirstine
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Monday, October 26, 2009