Orrery review by medocain
Orrery is an old favourite and I was surprised on visiting last night for a Birthday celebration a deux to find it only half full. The good news was that the food is still well up to Michelin star par. My main course of spiced rabbit with cock's comb and langoustine in particular was unusual , clever and tasty but could have done with some form of vegetable beyond a sliver of foam and slightly less spice so that one could taste the rabbit. Service was , as others report, very friendly for such a classy establishment. If anything rather too much so. The shortage of customers left the sommelier with time on his hands which he used to keep interrupting our conversation.
Other niggles were that with the passage of time, the chairs have lost their stuffing and are now rather uncomfortable. I wouldn't want to suffer for the duration of a tasting menu. Also I have a suspicion ,maybe wrongly, that several of the waiters are Polish but putting on French accents. If so, that's silly. Polish accents are perfectly acceptable. Our main course was very slow in arriving ( apparently because the complexity of the cock's comb dish required more than one attempt in the kitchen) but I couldn't for the life of me understand the waiter's explanation. But they did give my partner a free glass of wine in recompense.
All in all though , if Orrery is to become a top class restaurant where you can always get a table , so much the better. And they did think to stick a candle in the petit fours for my birthday.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Overall rating 
Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
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