点评:I should have guessed from my booking experience that this was not going to go well! I had seen the advert for the Courtyard’s bottomless festive small plates with its accompanying image of a veritable feast and emailed the Courtyard, as it advised. Having had no response I rang and left a voicemail. No one rang me back and eventually I rang again and managed to secure a booking. We were advised to attend at 7pm when food would be served.
We duly arrived at 7, there was only one other table for two apart from ours, and a table laid out for 16. The table of 16 arrived late and therefore food was not brought out until 40 minutes after we had sat down. We were offered a complimentary mulled wine which neither of us wanted and were not offered a non alcoholic alternative (we were driving).
The food was a very odd combination of dishes and of poor quality. The cheese fondue tasted more like a packet cheese sauce and I doubt many of the dishes were homemade. The roast potatoes, with a disgusting vegetarian gravy and topped with grated cheese were a culinary disaster. The ‘hot smoked salmon, celeriac remoulade, rocket’ was inedible and looked like it had been thrown on the plate!
The only item we finished was the bowl of cashew nuts!
Even the ambience of the eating area was all wrong, albeit the two young staff members were charming and did their best!
It was a very disappointing evening. As we left the staff member offered us takeaway boxes so we could take any uneaten food home with us (of which there was a lot!) needless to say we declined!
We will not be returning. The Courtyard is an impressive building in an ideal location for visitors to our city and it is a real shame that it does little to attract people to return in relation to the catering facilities. It was a total waste of £70.
翻译:根据我的预订经验,我应该猜到这不会顺利!我看到了万怡酒店无限量节日小盘的广告,并附有名副其实的盛宴图片,并按照广告上的建议给万怡酒店发了电子邮件。没有得到回应,我打电话并留下了语音信箱。没有人给我回电话,最终我再次打电话并成功预订了房间。我们被建议晚上 7 点参加,那时食物就会供应。
我们7点准时到达,除了我们的桌子外,只有一张两人桌,还有一张16人桌。16人桌迟到了,因此直到我们坐下后40分钟才把食物端上来。他们为我们提供了免费的热红酒,我们都不想要,也没有提供不含酒精的替代品(我们正在开车)。
食物的菜肴组合很奇怪而且质量很差。奶酪火锅的味道更像是一包奶酪酱,我怀疑很多菜肴都是自制的。烤土豆配上恶心的素食肉汁,上面撒上磨碎的奶酪,简直就是一场烹饪灾难。 “热熏三文鱼、块根芹蛋卷、芝麻菜”无法食用,看起来就像是被扔到盘子里一样!
我们唯一完成的就是一碗腰果!
就连就餐区的氛围也不对劲,尽管那两个年轻的工作人员很有魅力,而且尽力了!
这是一个非常令人失望的夜晚。当我们离开时,工作人员为我们提供了外卖盒,这样我们就可以把任何未吃的食物带回家(其中有很多!)不用说我们拒绝了!
我们不会回来。庭院是一座令人印象深刻的建筑,地理位置优越,是来我们城市旅游的游客的理想选择,但遗憾的是,它的餐饮设施并没有吸引人们再次光顾。这总共浪费了 70 英镑。