05-03-2017, 10:24 AM -
Was at A'chailltainn again as some mates wanted to meet for lunch and booked there. Only one meat dish on the menu, i get that it's a fish restaurant, but it was £19 for a pork tenderloin which was pretty small. Pork tenderloin is a a really nice cut, but it's a fairly cheap cut really. They had some vegetarian spaghetti with pine nuts for £12 and "add fish of the day for market price" i.e. £8. So £20 for the fish and some pretty plain spaghetti. The pork was slightly too well done, but the flavours worked, kind of like the venison I had last time I ate there, slightly overcooked.
They had sold out of that much stuff it was a beamer for the poor waitress who had to come to us at least 5 times to update the "we don't have any more of the..." list. This was at 2pm on sunday BTW. The 'artisan' bread at £5 was made up of a few small brown rolls out the freezer.
I get what they are trying to do and the cooking is pretty good, but all of the above is just shite. Just too overpiced I think. The wife really likes the place and her fish was lovely and she wants to support the whole barras art and design thing but I won't be rushing back to eat there. I don't understand when they only have one meat choice on the entire menu, then charging £19 for it. Trying to claim artisan bread (i.e. fresh from a decent baker) and bringing frozen rolls out and still charging a fiver.
https://baadglasgow.com/assets/SPRING-MENU-2017.pdf
They had sold out of that much stuff it was a beamer for the poor waitress who had to come to us at least 5 times to update the "we don't have any more of the..." list. This was at 2pm on sunday BTW. The 'artisan' bread at £5 was made up of a few small brown rolls out the freezer.
I get what they are trying to do and the cooking is pretty good, but all of the above is just shite. Just too overpiced I think. The wife really likes the place and her fish was lovely and she wants to support the whole barras art and design thing but I won't be rushing back to eat there. I don't understand when they only have one meat choice on the entire menu, then charging £19 for it. Trying to claim artisan bread (i.e. fresh from a decent baker) and bringing frozen rolls out and still charging a fiver.
https://baadglasgow.com/assets/SPRING-MENU-2017.pdf