The best restaurants serving Other european-cuisines food in Oakham North East Rutland East Midlands

Refined cuisine and top-notch service in a typical setting.

A lunch outing with family who don’t live in Oakham on Dec 31st was such a disappointment. We arrived on time for our 1:30pm booking, were seated right away, had our orders taken and then we waited 1 hour for our starters to arrive. When we asked why it was taking so long we were told there was only 1 chef in the kitchen. But that wasn’t the only problem. A few of us ordered the vegetable soup as our starter. It was presented in a nice little soup tureen but clearly the kitchen had run out of soup because what we were given resembled pasta sauce or salsa. It was a dish of chopped tomatoes, onion, celery and the odd bit of carrot with absolutely no liquid or flavour. The most complimentary thing I can say bout the main courses was that they were served piping hot. There was a choice of 4 mains and I had what was described as ‘white beef’ (really?!!) with horseradish mash (without any horseradish flavour), root veg and bourguignon sauce. The stew that I received was mostly mushroom, onion and sauce with very little beef and the beef was in tiny pieces, not chunks of beef. My meal was definitely not worth the £27.50 I paid for the 2 courses. Needless to say we didn’t stay for dessert. Would I recommend this restaurant? No. It was a special. Christmas menu with only 4 choices of starter, main and dessert. If a chef can’t manage this limited menu what happens when it’s an a la carte menu ?