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I went here for lunch as a party of 5 for a birthday celebration, only 3 weeks ago, tasting menu. I have deliberated wether to post this reveiw at all and if it wasn't for the restaurant having just being posted 86th in national restaurant awards i wouldn't have bothered. But I felt if your in the country's top 100 you should be open to feedback. We arrived maybe 10 mins late for our 1200 lunch. We gave our name in and the lady who was there to great us, front of house. She just said your table is round there and pointed, she didnt even smile and didn't come across as very welcoming. She didn't show us to the table. We sat down and each ordered a drink. The same lady came to serve us. A friend asked for a bucks fizz and she. . . I wouldn't say snarl but it was a disapproving gesture and she reply why don't you have this drink instead. Again it didnt feel friendly. After that we were served by two young servants who were friendly and attentive, and also the sommelier Connor who was brilliant! He answered all our wine related questions, he was very knowledgeable did an excellent job. Lots of Hungarian wines that were quite different but superbly well paired. Service went smoothly from there. The tasting menu was decent, there was one dish that wasn't particularly good. It was a scallop dish with a frothy foam sauce. All 5 of us didn't finish this dish and for a couple of us we thought the scallop was over done. It just didn't taste that nice. The rest of the tasting menu was pleasant. Then right at the end we asked the front of house, a lady with glasses on. Could she please book us a taxi. She just replied we just use the app!!. Now I've been to a lot of michelin restaurants here and Europe. All stars, this feedback is just based on other 1 stars.ive been to. Like I said I don't think I would have done the the reveiw if it hadn't come 86th in country. We feel the experience we got doesn't represent that at all. And really it's the interaction with the front of house that really let it down here and that one dish. I gave service a 4 cos conner proped up the rating