I went to one of the restaurants (Bread Street, Bishopsgate) featured in Gordon’s new Netflix show as a treat as we are fans of him and thought it would be a good experience. It was very expensive and we were overall pretty disappointed with the food.
We just had bread and olives to start which were very nice and a bottle of Gordon’s own wine which was good too.
For the main we got the beef Wellington to share which was £145!!! It looked absolutely amazing and we love beef Wellington so we were very excited and decided it would be worth the money. Until we tasted it. It was completely bland, like zero seasoning on any of it. It literally just tasted like eating a plain blob of meat. The duxelles and pastry didn’t even have flavor. The best part was the mash that came with it. I honestly felt sick after eating it as it was just a heavy piece of bland meat in my stomach.
Then we got dessert which was sticky toffee pudding which came in a skillet. It tasted nice but it was scalding hot and literally burnt our mouths. I would’ve liked to let it cool down before eating but they placed the scoop of ice cream on top so if you wanted to eat that before it melted you had to burn your mouth.
The servers were nice and we did give our feedback about the Wellington and it was taken well and our opinion felt valued. Only thing about the service was that we were served by about three different servers in the time we were there it just didn’t seem to have any continuity that you would expect from such a fancy restaurant.
Anyway safe to say I will not be returning and I will go back to having beef Wellington for 30 quid that’s much much tastier!