Last year we took a group of eight of us for a birthday dinner and I had the crab pakora to start, the 'claws' were just batter with a strange 'burnt fat' taste and the pink cellophane of the crab was present, so I had peel that away. I had the roast dinner and again the potatoes had a terribly bitter taste of cooking fat and they were solid, another guest felt the same. I mentioned it to the waitress as we had left them uneaten and she apologies (nothing offered in lieu).
We gave it another try a few months later with 2 more friends, my friends enjoyed their wild boar and I had fish and chips, again, this god awful after taste of fat. By this point I said I was never going back, but to be fair, so many people do rave about it that I thought it must be me!
We tried for a 3rd time in January, the vegetable soup was very watery in my opinion and I ordered fish and chips again and suddenly half way through that oily taste was there again and I couldn’t finish it, my husband had the scampi and could taste it also but not as bad as my fish, I actually felt quite nauseous, I can’t put my finger on the taste but it was bitter, left an aftertaste, really strange.
The hosts were lovely, I do get quite anxious when something isn’t right so didn’t complain, it is a busy restaurant but that cooking fat needs to be addressed before I went back.