The Scran and Scallie

It is nice, but it is expensive. We came here with some friends for a nice meal out. I will say that some of the food was really quite tasty, but for what amounted to burger and chips and a pie (fancy pie, granted, but we'll get into that...) £63 a head was just way more than I felt it was worth. Homemade lemonade / ginger beer, 8/10, very tasty, refreshing with hints of herbs that gave it some beautiful aftertaste. Very nice. Scallops, 8/10, delicious, perfectly tender. Pork scratchings, 6/10, was sort of expecting proper scratchings here, nice juicy layer of fat, crunchy outer layer. Instead we got the pork equivalent of a prawn cracker that could just as easily been bought from a supermarket. If they do indeed make these in-house there was really not a lot to show for it. Burger and chips, 6/10, twas a burger and that's about all I remember. Clearly not a winner. Beef shin and marrow pie, 8/10 for the filling, 5/10 for the pie crust. The slow cooked meat was tender, the richness of the marrow was unctious - if this had been presented as beef stew I would be dinging it's praises. But I feel a ways about pies with no bottom. I was looking forward to the balance between the saucy interior and a doughy flaky buttery crust. Instead no bottom (no bottom!) and the lid on top was this odd wafer thing that jist didn't do it for me. Side of broccoli, 7/10, nice enough, but I remember it being slightly overcooked. Peach frangipane, 6/10. Quite mediocre flavours all around for this one. The peach was sort stewed, no caramelisation. The frangipane itself was fairly basic and nothing stood put. Quite disappointing. In summary, elements of this meal were fantastic but the parts that let it down really did let it down and at this price point that's just not acceptable.