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People also seemed to enjoy their desserts; [[doop]] was very pleased with his apple and almond tart (£3.50): the tart itself was very good, but its crust was excellent. |
People also seemed to enjoy their desserts; doop was very pleased with his apple and almond tart (£3.50). |
Opened in May 2008, the Yellow House Bar and Kitchen is a sister enterprise to the Yellow House Restaurant down the road. It's located in former pub premises, and some of the fixtures and fittings remain from its previous life.
Kake, doop, Flick, and friends visited on the Sunday lunchtime of a Bank Holiday weekend in May 2008, shortly after the grand opening. A number of service issues were evident - confusion over what people had ordered, bringing the wrong coffee, forgetting to bring the requested tap water - but with any luck these will settle down once the place has been open a bit longer.
The food was pretty good though. Eggs benedict (£6.50) included properly-poached eggs, with a shape clearly indicating that they were poached rather than steamed, and good ham. Flick's scrambled eggs (£7) also looked very good, with plenty of golden egg colour. doop's lentil and herb burger photo (£9 including chips, salad, and avocado salsa) was quite comically mismatched in size with the (home-made) bun, but he seemed to enjoy it. Kake's smoked haddock fishcakes photo (£10.50 including chips and salad) were fine, though a little dry, and the accompanying mayonnaise was a little bland, despite having a colour that suggested it was home-made rather than Heinz. The chips that came with the fishcakes were actually thin fries, and were fine except their pre-salted nature meant that they only added to the saltiness of the fishcakes to make a rather thirst-inducing whole.
People also seemed to enjoy their desserts; doop was very pleased with his apple and almond tart (£3.50).
They are licensed; as well as a wine list I noted they had Leffe on tap.
Kake's verdict: Will happily come back; I'd like to give the eggs a try. (I wouldn't necessarily recommend you cross London to come here, but it's a very short walk away from us.)
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