Jenkins & Sons

Booked our New Years evening here! We paid £69 which included a 5 course menu and a glass of champagne. I was expecting really good food as some of the Unilocal reviews had given Jenkins and sons 5 stars! The food was very disappointing overall. First course was mixture of potted pork belly which was ok, grissini that was stale, buffala cheese with tomatoes. Hardly ground breaking chefy stuff which I wouldn’t have minded if it was done well! Glass of champagne was warm! A cucumber sorbet palate cleanser sounded promising however the pastry chef must have got involved on this one as it was loaded with sugar. Everyone had sirloin steak. Fair play they can cook a steak to order however more potato and veg would have been appreciated. No cheese course instead four desserts. Everything was far too sweet. One of the dessert looked like custard and berries but tasted of condensed milk!
Table service was ok for a busy night.

Food is always awesome in here. Atmosphere is really good and staff are attentive.
Definitely have the burger… And the pulled pork sandwich… And and and

Please don’t come here. It’s hard enough getting a table as it is. Awesome place. Great food, great staff and fab bar. Best place for miles.

Went for the Annual Xmas meal with Friends here over the weekend and it was quite disappointing. Have been in for drinks before and some bar food and has been good but this was our first meal.
When we were seated the presentation of the table was great, crackers and all! However we had to wait 20 mins for someone to come and take our orders (we were not aloud to pre-​order). Starters were good but we were kept waiting almost an hour between courses and actually had to go up and chase the manager (No apology, just told it will be out soon). Staff & Management presence on the floor was sporadic (Despite there being more than enough for the covers they had in) with the waiters either congregating at the pass chatting or reluctantly clearing tables. Our second drinks order was forgotten and had to be chased up and re-​ordered, These finally arrived just before our desserts.
The food was very good, its just a shame the customer service was lacking and at no point was our table touched by a manager to see how our meal was.
As I said above, this is a great place for the bar, Cocktails and the great range of craft and obscure beers. It just needs someone to implement some steps of service and some service flair that would match the rest of the business so well.