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| - I have spent some time in Cornwall and have eaten my fair share of pasties. So I was excited to try this place out. Right off the bat though, I love that they have so many vegetarian and vegan options. That's really nice.
I tried the balsamic portobello mushroom pasty, the chips, and the chocolate bread and butter pudding. Overall, it was good. I would say that, aside from the chips, it's not as authentic as I would have hoped for. The pasty itself was a bit more "posh" than what you'd normally find. To be fair, I didn't do a direct comparison. In Cornwall, I had previously eaten the more traditional pasties like cheese and onion, pork and apple, etc. But I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth, as I said, I was very happy to have so many veggie options. But the pasty did seem more posh in term of the pastry being more refined than what you'd normally see. I mean, basically, the pasties they serve are actually probably better made and prepared than real pasties... the pastry is crisper but also a little tougher. Overall, I like my pasty though.
The chocolate bread and butter pudding though, I'm afraid, was really not what I was expecting. Real bread and butter pudding is made with chunks of bread and, you guessed it, soaked in butter (among other things). What I was served was something more like a sponge cake soaked with brandy and comes with a little pot of creme anglaise (which I don't think I was ever served at any time in the UK, but hey ho!). The sponge cake has more of a consistency of treacle tart/pudding. Minus the treacle, of course. And again, it tasted really nice and was a lovely dessert in it's own right, it was just not bread and butter pudding. It looked like a striped cube, by the way.
So I guess for the food that's my review, that the food was very good in it's own right, and possibly is a posh version of those foods, but I didn't get that authentic homey feel from it like I hoped because it wasn't the real thing.
I would definitely go there again though. The service was really good. I liked the vibe of the place and the decor is cool. And the food was tasty overall. It's a nice, casual, fun restaurant.
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