- Overall 3
- Food 5
- Service 1
- Ambience 3
As someone who had visited and loved 12:51, I was really excited to try The Brave to see how the food compared. The great news is that the food is wonderful. Playful, packed full of flavour, beautifully presented and executed - there's very little to fault when it comes to the dishes that came out. Where The Brave falls down is in how long they take to come out and the service generally. What started out as a brilliant experience - I stupidly had booked for the wrong day, the team couldn't have been better in letting us sit in the bar with some bar snacks until the table was ready - quickly went downhill when a table did become available. Over the course of the meal we had to ask for water three times before getting some and then another twice for more, before just having to go to the bar to get some. Plates were sat empty on the table for up to 15-20 mins after each course before they were cleared. The mains were delivered with only one of us having cutlery - cue another wait to be able to eat it. All in all from being sat in the restaurant to leaving, it took over 2.5hrs to have two oysters, two small plates, two larger plates and one pudding. Don't get me wrong, the food is really great, but it's currently as great as the service is miserable. Maybe the team were short-staffed and it was a busy service; hopefully it'll get better. I'll definitely be back to try the food again.
