Gastgebruiker
27 februari 2024
Despite being rather empty when we arrived it took a while for someone to come and take us to our table, once sat we were poured a glass of cool and crisp Midas Prosecco and served some Canapés - Olive & Hummus Crostini, Roasted Duck with Pickled Veg & Salmon with Cream Cheese - all tasty enough and a nice touch to have with the Prosecco but the ‘bread’ based items seemed a little stale. To drink my husband ordered a Peroni - after waiting quite some time (we were on to the starters) our drinks hadn’t arrived, it turns out the Peroni tap wasn’t working but it took quite a while to come over and offer an alternative, when the alternative was chosen it took a while to arrive as well, by which time we had nearly finished the starters. In addition to the delay with the Peroni my rose took the same amount of time to arrive and was more on the warm side but had a decent flavour - all in all less than ideal. For starters I had beef tartare, cured egg yolk & sourdough croute, the beef was very tender and tasty but the cured egg yolk was a weird addition as it was very hard, the croute was very brittle and oily too. My husband’s starter of Trout gravlax, cured chalk stream trout, beetroot slaw, basil oil & caviar was very light and fresh, tasty enough but missing a depth of flavour. On to the mains my husband had the Roasted salmon fillet, chive crushed potatoes, tender steam broccoli, cherry tomatoes & dill butter sauce - all very well cooked with flakey fish along with a deliciously flavoured and balanced sauce, the tomatoes could have done with being in the oven longer but that’s all. I decided to go for the ‘Surf & Turf’ - Beef fillet, scallop, king prawns, creamed mash potatoes & red wine jus. It was perfect, well cooked prawns and scallops, spot on rare steak which was soft to cut through and the red wine jus was full of flavour- couldn’t fault this at all other than wishing it was bigger as I could have eaten it all over again. Finally on to desserts… Strawberry and mint chocolate parfait, hazelnut crumb & ganache - it appeared nice on paper but the flavour combination just didn’t work and wasn’t very good on the palate - plus the appearance was awful, it looked messy and unappealing. The Chocolate fondant, clotted cream & raspberries on the other hand was brilliant, just as gooey as you would expect with the right amount of clotted cream and tartness from the fresh raspberries. Despite the 3 courses and canapés we were still hungry upon getting home, which we’ve never experienced before when having a meal out. Overall, as Valentines dinners go and taking everything in to consideration it wasn’t a great experience, it put a bit of a downer on the evening when it should have given that little sparkle - we wouldn’t rush back for dinner based on this experience, which is a shame as we had drinks and platters last summer which were fab. We were expecting far more from The Captains Club.
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