This review is for the dining room upstairs, not the tapas room downstairs.
Let's begin:
Good food, excessive price tag.
For dinner you pick between 2 - 5 courses and the price is set. It sounds fine so far, doesn't it?
2 courses = £33.00
3 courses = £47.00
4 courses = £57.00
5 courses = I can't remember, my eyes blurred to protect me from fully understanding the hit my purse was about to take.
We'll come back to the prices in just a mere moment. The dining room is nice, not amazing, but decked out nicely...nicely is such an insipid word.
The food was nice...there's that word again...
The Providores seems to add things to the food that are neither here nor there: The sweet potato dumplings were perfect, but the chocolate fondant, for example, already had a different touch by adding chestnut butter to the gooey centre in the middle...why add coconut sambal on top? It neither adds to, nor detracts from the flavour...and it doesn't even add an aesthetic advantage. That being said, minus the addition of the unnecessary, the food provided is...good...I'm mean...nice...
I'm trying to say that the Providores dining room is a good experience, but the feelings dissolved to nice as the price is just too high for what it is. Especially, once you have factored in the 'starter' size portions that are 'designed to allow you to try more food'...ok...great idea...why are you charging me over £10 per course for smaller portions though? My momma didn't raise no fool (well...).
Price: Approx. £145.00 for one 1 x carafe of white wine, 1x 3 courses, 1 x 4 courses and service charge.
Veggie Friendly: 3/5
Food: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Atmosphere: 3/5
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