Boyd's Bar & Brasserie

Came to try this restaurant with my wife and didn't really like it. It's not that the food is unedible, it's just not all that. The menu wouldn't seem out of place in a standard pub and we both thought it could have been more inventive. For the prices we may as well have gone to the oxo tower across the bridge as a 3 course for 2 came to £120 with wine. I'm not tight when it comes to eating out but for these prices, I would expect a fine gastro experience which this place most definitely isn't. They rely on dimmed lights to set the ambiance and we both chuckled that this seemed more like a airport lounge than a posh brasserie on the strand, what with all the hotel guests walking through the foyer. It totally kills the experience. I don't see this place making it with all the competition there is these days and with all the fantastic chefs there are in the city, I don't think I will be returning to this place to spend my hard earned money.
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Dexter johnson
3 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 0
Friday, January 07, 2011

This is a spacious restaurant at the back of the hotel. It is very nicely decorated and feels good. We have now been there 5 times as a small group because it is normally very quiet and so easy to talk.

No more. Each visit has got worse and worse and it never really started from a great height anyway. Last night the service was embarrassingly slow and the food was a joke.
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2 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, September 29, 2010