Last night I went to The Refinery - Kitchen, Bar with Holly. It's on the corner of Hope Street & Myrtle Street in town opposite the Philharmonic Hall. A nice little place that serves food, cocktails & live music. They do breakfast, lunch & dinner. They're part of Bistro Jacques, The Hub Alehouse & Kitchen on Hanover Street & others around the city. People were dressed both casual & dressed up for a night out. It was nice & cosy since we were in there for hours.
I haven't seen Holly since my belated birthday meal at the end of August, as she's left me for Nottingham again. It was really lovely to catch up as I probably won't see her now till next month when we finally see Bastille!
We got the pre-theatre offer - 1 small plate & 1 big plate £13.50
I got the Beef short rib, fennel seed BBQ sauce & crispy onion rings.
Superfood salad: Baby spinach, edamame beans, cherry vine tomatoes, tendertem broccoli, avocado, toasted pumpkin seeds, lemon & olive dressing with teriyaki salmon.
The rib meat was really nice & soft, the sauce was also good. Wasn't really a fan of the onion rings, didn't taste like onions. The salad I enjoyed but didn't my salmon was gonna look like that. I thought it was gonna be chunks of salmon, the reason I chose to go here was after seeing their instagram of the teriyaki salmon salad. This photo here doesn't look like that...
Holly got the Soup of the day which was tomato & basil with artisan bread.
She also got the Superfood salad that I got but with grilled chicken.
Food was good but it came so quick. I know the soup is already there but as soon as she took our order it was already at our table! Same with the salad not much cooking or preparation but that came straight after they'd taken our plates from our starters! If we didn't stay to talk & have a drink we would've been out of there within half an hour we got our food so quick! I've never been anywhere where the service has been that quick.
I must look like I go out for these meals I blog about on my own as I always forget to take photos of myself & whoever I'm with. Priority is to take a photo of the food before anyone put their cutlery in it! But I promise you I was with Holly last night who might've been a little tipsy as she got a large glass of red wine & was on the Bailey's while I was designated driver so was on the orange juice.
I'd recommend The Refinery but maybe tell them your want a break after your starter so your main doesn't come flying out straight after it!
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