The Three Horseshoes

We found the experience at the Three Horseshoes a bit of a mixed bag. The setting is gorgeous, I can't really fault it at all. The service was good if a little snooty (we hadn't really dressed up but then this restaurant is in a pub!) and the food came at a not unreasonable time. However, the food itself varied from being cooked to absolute perfection to being shockingly poor. My main was a duck breast with duck liver in a red wine jus, and it was delightful. Cooked to perfection, seasoned well, and what I expected. My partner's main, on the other hand, was not so good. At £22 a t-bone steak should be cooked as though Gordan Ramsay himself was flown down to cook it (yes it was a named breed steak but I have bought organic longhorn steak from a tiny farm for a LOT less than this). So we were expecting something special. My partner ordered it medium rare. One half of the steak was blue and the other incinerated. Now, I understand that having one half of the steak being much thicker than the other due to the bone would make cooking it evenly more challenging, but then this is why we go out to eat rather than eating at home. One expects that a chef in a kitchen whom is being paid to cook can cook better than the paying guests, yet this is apparently not the case.

I will probably go back here again if only to try to soothe my growing fear that there are dwindling numbers of decent eateries in Cambridge. I am sadly afraid, however, that I will fail.
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Kate
Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 4
Tuesday, May 05, 2009