The Wildebeest

I really wanted to like this venue, I am a bit of a food fanatic. We were greeted and sat at our table and it took a very long time before we ordered and longer until food arrived. I had the beef cheeks that really needed the parsnip purée to mask the saltiness of the cheeks. The main was a pleasant chicken dish with vegetables. The dessert was nice but I was left with a sense of disappointment that I didn’t really see bib gourmand quality food. I am reasonably experienced having had food at a total of 135 michelin stars. Staff were more attentive to chatting to eachother at the counter. My mocktail was insipid, it was supposed to have ginger and tonic in it. It was prepared by one of the seemingly junior staff and it was supposed to be carbonated but was flat. When I asked for it to be replaced the more experienced waitress agreed to change it but instructed me that it had been made to a set recipe and it was changed because of my personal taste! No, it was flat AND insipid nothing to do with my personal taste. We had little engagement from staff and were ignored when we left, no passing comments as we left. Shame, the food isn’t bad, main and dessert ok but let down by front of house.