Tirage

*slight Josy rant alert*
Tirage has shown me why I tend to trust Unilocal over trip advisor! This place has 4.5 stars for trip advisor, with lots and lots of positive reviews… but I’m afraid that our experience did not match up to that at all! We came here for a wedding present. Some of my lovely friends in Canada bought us a «champagne dinner for two» for £80ish, but the voucher mentioned that it should be worth £120…so we were expecting a tasty, slightly posh evening out in the city.
I’ll start with the good bits:
— Our waitress was really nice
— The champagne and wine were both looovely! Seriously, my husband especially loved the wine.
The less good bits:
— There was no loo roll in any of the ladies stalls (!!)
— The seats aren’t very comfy as they are perched up high. We considered staying for an extra glass of wine (as the wine was so good) but the awkward seating persuaded us to go home early.
— Our table was really wobbly.
— The music didn’t really fit the ambience it was more like a try-​hard bar than relaxing dining music
— They have a huge TV screen that was showing photos of London or of Tirage (like an advert, even though we were already there… what is that about!?)
The food just wasn’t very impressive:
— The scallops were quite small, and looked sort of messy (maybe I am too used to Japanese food with amazing scallops?) The flavours of baba ganoush and pomegranate didn’t go very well with the scallops, although all the flavours were tasty separately.
— For mains I had pork ribs while my husband tried the flat iron steak. They were both all right, but it seemed more like slightly up market pub food, rather than fine dining.
— The champagne cheesecake was light and flavourful but the biscuit was really soggy. I wasn’t impressed by the presentation, with blobs of strawberry jam on top. Meh.
This place has sooo many good reviews, that *maybe* we were there on a bad night when the main chef was out?
Anyway…It gave me the impression that the «fine dining» here is designed for people with more money than taste buds.