This newly opened Italian restaurant was recommended to us by a couple of experienced foodies. At the time they were accompanied by an Italian man who remarked that the dishes were so authentic. So even though Margot is not a Michelin Star restaurant we decided to book, especially as the owners both worked at Scotts restaurant.

 

The restaurant has good décor and sadly that is probably its best feature. We have decided that this restaurant is a hit or miss restaurant on the night. Judging on past reviews, you can be incredibly lucky and have a fantastic meal or like on the night we went, have a very average meal indeed.

 

For the 40 some-things the menu is quite difficult to read in the dim light !! And we have to apologise for the poor quality of our photos due to the fact that we were told that we were not allowed to use our camera flash, even though we were seated in a pretty enclosed booth, so the flash would not affect any other tables. And then we were told we couldn't take photos at all. Also being a group of individuals we asked if the restaurant would split the food bill to the individual diners but they said they weren't able to.

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For starters we had the following dishes:

Venison Ragu Pasta which was on the Specials menu – remarks it was OK but not fantastic and the meat was a bit too lumpy

Gnocchi – remarks it was nice but needed a bit more depth of flavour, it was very one dimensional, the tomato sauce was nice.

Roast Pumpkin Soup – remarks it was nice and you could taste the pumpkin

Beef Carpaccio with Truffle – remarks it was a very forgettable dish, and the truffle flavour was far too strong for the beef.

Burrata Puglia – remarks the variety of Heritage tomatoes were nice, but the basil pesto did not go with the dish, and the Burrata was very average, we have had a lot nicer Burratas.

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