Camden Brasserie review by Jeremy Balcombe
We ate here last night - there were 7 of us including 2 children and 3 teenagers. Between us we had 3 starters, 2 main courses, 3 junior meals, 2 starters as mains and 4 desserts. 1 bottle of wine (£24) and 1 brandy. Total bill £175 ie £25 per head. Good money and if the food had lived up to expectations I'd be happy to go back...for a special occasion. Trouble is we had a very inconsistent meal. Steak and sausages were good. Desserts were poor apart from the ice cream. Some disappointment as they had run out of one of the flavours - this at 7.30pm. Still it had been a hot day so a run on white chocolate chip had clearly taken place. Salad dressings were anodyne and too oily. Chips were flaccid though they looked good.
Service was good although one of the main courses was served 5 minutes after the rest as, according to the waitress, the chef had forgotten to do it. We were early and there were only 4/5 other tables occupied at the time so this seemed rather odd.
Portions were generally small.
The junior steak I kid you not was about 12cms by 5 cms (and no I didn't have my ruler with me). It tasted fine but for £8 it damn well ought to. It arrived on a full size plate and looked very small and lonely. It was eaten in 3 mouthfuls by a 9 year old.
Overall nice ambience, clean and bright, airy and not too noisy. However poor value for money and patchy food. For that money and the limited menu you need to be much better to get people coming back.
Unlikely to visit again unless persuaded by locals that we were just unlucky.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Overall rating 
Food 4 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 1
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