Trying the newcontinental for the latest in our series of reviews on eateries with outdoor seating 😋
venues. From its fancy beginnings in 1911 as a parkside hotel and boathouse, it moved through such regenerations as a shabby boozer that mainly served surprisingly good French onion soup and unsurprisingly bad beer. Then as a bog-standard local with a children’s play hall that had the same welcoming vibe as The Overlook Hotel and featured a ball pool that smelt like a lonely school plimsole squatting in a dirty hamster cage.
We ordered at the bar, and after an acceptable wait our food arrived. A starter of deep fried soft shell crab with spicy old bay sauce at £6.95 came first. It was hanging out on top of some crispy deep fried leaves and belatedly trying to hide under some crispy ‘seaweed’ and a wedge of lemon. There were only a few mouthfuls of crab and it was a little oily, but it tasted fine.
For the main course I ordered a homemade spicy marinated chicken burger topped with onion bhaji and mango and mint yoghurt at £11.95. The fries were hot and crispy but both the chicken and the bhaji were extremely dry, and couldn’t be saved by the yoghurt dip.When a waiter – the friendly and helpful TJ – came to ask if our meals were okay, I told him the issue and he apologised and took it back to the kitchen.
The trifle was light and surprisingly sharp with plenty of lemon. The flavour of coconut was more subtle, and Yvonne suspected that it was a coconut sponge base. We didn’t see any of the dessicated coconut used by the odd people of the seventies to self-sabotage their trifles, so that was a relief.
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