Cotton Tails Cafe in Hertsmere

I am not happy with my profeterol is been green i didnt eat

I met up with a long lost friend and we ended up looking for an impromptu dinner early evening on a weekday. We walked in without booking and they squeezed us in as they were fully booked. Although almost empty at the time, it filled up before we left. I opted for the calves liver with mash, and my fried ordered the sea bass. Now I never thought that calves liver and onions was an Italian dish but according to many entries on the net it is. Suffice to say the liver placed on the top of seasoned buttery mashed potato, with onion gravy, the depth of flavour was excellent. Maybe a touch better than my Mum used to make and that’s saying something. My friend was extremely happy with their fish dish as well. All in all, an excellent impromptu dinner. If a suburban restaurant is full on a Wednesday night, that says something.

Went for the first time today with a friend for lunch. Not impressed at all. My starter of deep fried brie was supposed to come with a berry coulis except it was aa tomato sauce and garnished with wilting rocket that I would throw out of my fridge. The brie had more coating than brie and I left most of it. The waitress on retrieving the plates did not even bother to ask me why I had left it The main course was tagliatelle with roasted aubergine, yellow peppers and courgettes in a tomato sauce which tasted like the one with the brie. The aubergines were tough and thr courgettes undercooked. The peppers were fine. Again I left half of it and when the waitress came to take away plates, she mumbled "everything alright" and I said no by which time she was gone without listening to my reply. Suffice to say I won't be returning.

Not enough staff and food appalling. My sister and I ordered Tuscan soup to start (which I had ordered before and liked) but it was totally inedible as it tasted sour as if it was off and we had to send it back, so just had bread that came with it. My main was spaghetti bolognaise which has very little sauce and had to ask for more. The dessert I had was chocolate cake with mascapone cream. The cake itself was heavy and there was only a teaspoon of mascapone cream served with it so again had to ask for more. So the starter, main and dessert were all disappointing. They also didn't have any mash which was meant to come with my sister's main.

Really lovely staff Starters were nice but the ravilo and the prawn dish had the same tomato sauce which was overly salty, unfortunately this completely put us off