Visit: 5 December 2021
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Website: https://www.upstairs.restaurant/
The Review:
Tom Shepherd’s new restaurant Upstairs continues to attract great reviews. We first visited in October when it opened, and you can find my review here. Sunday lunch was just as good as we expected.
Starters included chicken liver parfait, pollock served with a Vin Jaune sauce, or coddled hens’ egg.
Mains included a superb beef sirloin, served with a Yorkshire pudding with braised pulled beef inside, or Creedy Carver chicken served with a very good stuffing, whole roasted plaice served with shrimp, capers and a beurre noisette, or a vegetarian mushroom wellington. All the mains were served with very good crispy roast potatoes and a creamed cabbage.
Desserts were bread and butter pudding, sticky toffee pudding or chocolate with pecan and Pedro Ximenez.
The food was excellent. The wine service and food service are not quite in sync yet, probably because we drink more quickly than most other tables! Value for money is excellent. The cost of the lunch was only £35 per head, which is remarkable for this quality and level of service.
The Menu
My wife and I had lunch Upstairs when you were there! It was our 3rd visit and our view is that Tom and his team continue to improve as time goes by. Highest quality ingredients in dishes designed by an awarded expert and all cooked to perfection by a kitchen team that knows what it’s doing. And the setting is good too!
Hi Richard. Thanks for your comment. I totally agree. Tom and his team are superb and getting better. I think this could be the first Michelin Star restaurant in the area. Regards, Stuart.