In recent months I've often walked past the former Slug and Lettuce and wondered what this Bills place is all about. The leather chairs, moody colours and lighting, not to mention the thumping music of a weekend evening has been replaced with shelves of colourful jars of condiments and big yellow tins of olive oil. The music is still here, though in family friendly form. Oh and you can eat here too, which She and I do tonight.
A look at the menu with none of the starters catching my eye, means that main followed by dessert is the order of the day. She has a lamb hotpot and I have grilled sea bream. The fish came in a wide pasta bowl is moist and nicely cooked, though it is quite obvious that the sliced fennel in the dish was dry and cut some time previously. The lamb came in a little bowl on a board with a smaller bowl with red pickled cabbage. The flavours of this were fine though the hotpot, once the sliced potato covering had been peeled back, revealed itself to be disappointingly watery.
Dessert was the far better course. She had a beautifully moist, sweet but not sickly, sticky toffee pudding which just pipped my baked vanilla cheesecake to the best of the dishes we had.
So to summarise: A nice relaxed atmosphere, friendly staff and though the mains are nothing to write home about, the desserts are definitely worth a try.
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