A lot of money for not a lot!

We should have known things were going to well in Nottingham, on our last evening in the city and with a train to catch by 9pm, we decided to follow an Observer recommendation and try Sinatra’s, which has been recommended by the Observer previously winning an award in their yearly Food Awards.

Sinatra’s looked like a large ‘Picher and Piano’ type wine bar bistro, and we were seated at a table laid nicely but with no linen and only paper napkins. We ordered a white wine (I can’t remember the grape) and were offered a jug of tap water (which I always like), so far so good.

However, the dishes we had chosen had all sold out, so emergency rethink was needed.

For starters I ordered the beef carpaccio and hubby ordered the seafood risotto to be served with a poached egg, my beef carpaccio came as two small slices of rare beef that had been seared (as far as I understand it carpaccio is wafer thin raw beef) and at over £7.00 for the dish would have liked to have seen a few more slices, hubby’s risotto was lovely with a nutty bite and a perfectly cooked poached egg.

For mains I had ordered the assiette of seafood, which was a chipolata size piece of cod wrapped in proscuttio, a small sea bass fillet and a spoonful of risotto about the same size hubby had for his starter, for £18.00 not an impressive amount, and the flavours did nothing to make up for the lack of food. Hubby had chosen the duck served with potato puree and a spring roll, he ordered his duck pink, it came well cooked and dry, and the potato puree was great a nice sharp taste to go with his unfortunately tasteless and dry dish, and the spring roll was fantastic stuffed with duck in a filo pastry roll.

The meal came to an astounding £70.00 + for minimal food and effort, we were not happy and left promptly after paying the bill.