Firstly we were served the “best bread basket in town” by far. We are not sure whether they bake their bread on site or whether they get it brought in, but all the bread rolls were wonderful. With a selection of: Crispy French baguette, Brioche with garlic and sage which was outstanding, black olive roll, and an wholemeal roll. We all ended up eating far too much bread and not leaving enough room for our meals, but it was worth it !!

As hors d'oeuvre we were served little breadcrumb coated squares of pigs trotter (that looked like a mini fish finger!).

Out of the starters the Duck heart salad was the best served with lentils. This was delicious. And the smallest of criticisms was that the lentils slightly over powered the duck heart flavour, but still very nice.

The soft boiled egg with red wine sauce is a very traditional French dish and was very well cooked. Our guests thought it was a very interesting and different dish.

The leek and potato soup was fine but we wouldn’t order it again, and it was served lukewarm, we would go for the previous two starters instead.

For mains the Roasted Red-leg partridge with savoy cabbage was particularly good and we would definitely order that again. It was served with waffle style crisps which were a nice treat on the side.

The Pan-fried halibut, Madras curry sauce, we had conflicting views about the salt level. One diner said that the veggies were too salty (but then again she does not have salt on her food !). Whilst the other diners said they could have had more salt !! A chef just cant please everyone!!

The Herb crusted lamb rump, chickpea and tomato ragout was actually a French farmhouse rustic style cassoulet , served on a bed of cassoulet chickpeas. Really hearty traditional comforting French style food, excellent for these cold winter nights drawing in.