Well…
Last night me and the Mrs went to Cafe Rouge in Cabot Circus in Bristol. They’re ok really but you can’t expect too much from an establishment such as this. It took ten minutes after we sat down for anyone to even take a drinks order. This is unacceptable by any standard, when the drinks eventually arrived our tap water was not in a jug as requested and they initially forgot to bring the wine to the table. Now twenty five minutes after arriving we finally got to order food. I ordered the deep fried camembert followed by a 10oz rib-eye steak and my wife ordered mussels followed by an 8oz sirloin. The only way you can describe the food is mediocre at best, there wasn’t enough jelly with my cheese and the mussels were tasty enough although not very juicy.
Then the steaks arrived….
Mine was cooked ok although it clearly hadn’t been left to rest for long enough as on cutting it open I could see a red raw strip of meat with a grey strip on either side. Somehow the chef had managed to remove all beef flavour and replace it with an overpowering taste of chargrill. This was not entirely unexpected, I suspect the quality of the ingredients supplied to the restaurant are not of the highest possible quality. I had the “20th Anniversary sauce” with my main course, this seems to have been created by mixing several packets of different sauces and a lot of butter. It tasted slightly like creay chip shop curry sauce… Not entirely unpleasant if a little strange.
My wife’s steak was a different story. There seemed to be far more fat on than one would expect and this was evident by the amount of it that she didn’t eat. I tried some of the leftovers to see and it was tough and chewy fat, not actual meat. Again, the peppercorn sauce that came with it was tasty enough.
On both plates, the chips were great but anyone who can mess up chips shouldn’t be allowed to cook for a living.
For dessert we both had crepes filled with banana and chocolate sauce. Very good indeed although messing up a pancake is as unlikely as messing up chips so there we go.
In conclusion, you get what you pay for. I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit them but since we had £40 of clubcard reward vouchers to pay for the food it was effectively free so at that price anything is good 
