Pan Seared Salmon Pan Seared Salmon

Pan-seared salmon fillet, served with seasonal vegetables and a lemon-butter sauce.

Lowndes Bar Kitchen Jumeirah Lowndes

Lowndes Bar Kitchen Jumeirah Lowndes

21 Lowndes Street Jumeirah Lowndes HotelSW1X 9ES, SW1X 9EY, London, United Kingdom

Steak • British • European • Vegetarian


"My wife and I had dinner here using a Groupon voucher £49 for three courses each and a glass of either Prosecco or Aperol Spritz). It was a set menu but still plenty to choose from. Some higher-end dishes attracted a surcharge but this wasn’t excessive. The restaurant itself is pleasant enough. Standard hotel restaurant decor. The staff were extremely welcoming and provided excellent service. The food wasn’t much to write home about though sadly. Lovely hot bread was served with our Prosecco which was in a beautiful glass it must be said). Starters were the best course. I had salt and pepper squid with a chilli jam which was very good and my wife had cauliflower and keens cheddar soup which was served with a big cheesy croutons which she loved. I opted to pay a surcharge for the rib eye steak for main course which I asked for rare. Now I expect rare to be hot and seared on the outside whilst still **** in the middle. What I got was a just about lukewarm grey piece of meat which, the fat of which had not been rendered so was still like jelly. Inside the meat was dry and on the blue side of rare. It wasn’t particularly tasty I don’t think it has been seasoned before cooking) and certainly wasn’t ****. I regularly cook steak at home and sear and seal it on a hot griddle pan so that it has a nice char but it is still juicy inside. It’s easily done. For pudding I had the lemon tart with clotted cream which was average. My wife had date pudding essentially sticky toffee pudding) which was dry but sitting on a pool of sickeningly sweet sauce. Again, average. It was an enjoyable experience in general for the money paid but not somewhere I’d return to in a hurry or pay full price for."

Spikes Bistro At Dudsbury Golf Club

Spikes Bistro At Dudsbury Golf Club

64 Christchurch Road, East Dorset, United Kingdom

Drinks • British • European • Breakfast


"Ordered lamb shepherd's pie from menu and was brought a plate of mince . The menu description said it was lamb mince topped with mashed potato, not a potato in sight when it arrived.! On enquiry with the waiter I was assured this was shepherd's pie. I have made hundreds of shepherd's pies in my 80 years and have never had one without a potato topping, generally browned in the oven on top or put under the grill. To make matters worse the waiters all insisted this was shepherd's pie and on consulting the chef, who never came out to see me, I was told the mashed potato was mixed in with the mince. This is not shepherd's pie, not even the deconstructed ones which still have the potato separate. When I showed one of the waitresses a picture of shepherd's pie she said in a very supercilious tone that the chef certainly knew how to make a shepherd's pie but he clearly did not . If he wanted to change the way it was made , the menu should have said that it was not the usual method. I wouldn't have had it then . I offered to accept it if some chips were served with it but this was completely ignored. The dish was then taken away and after a long wait I was offered an alternative. Note to staff in this situation produce the alternative quickly! I was kept waiting so long that my friend had eaten her meal and her pudding before I got my meal. It was a perfectly good lasagne obviously not made from scratch while I waited. Luckily, the chef stuck to the traditional recipe this time and did not decide to cut up the pasta into small pieces and stir it into the mince!"