“Visiting as a couple on a Thursday evening in late August, it started well. The maitre d' received us and showed us to our table, and asked if we would like Olives and bread whilst we made our menu choice, to which we said yes. Then our waitress arrived with the menus but not olives/bread - these eventually came after we had made our menu choices and asked more than once for them. The mains arrived very quickly, too quickly in fact as we'd hardly started on the nibbles. How was the food? The MPW signature steak au poivre was really excellent - a serious piece of fillet accurately cooked (mine was rare), the poivre sauce just this side of too peppery, the fricasse of mushrooms delicious and tasty. There was a side of Hoffmann chips which were less successful, being less than crisp and too thickly cut - I'd have preferred standard frites. My wife had the Alex James burger, which was unremarkable - adding bacon and blue cheese to an average burger still makes it an average burger. During the meal we were interrupted more than once by the waitress asking if everything was OK and "enjoy the rest of your meal", which was unnecessary and a bit intrusive to be honest. I have to mention the coffees though, because they were appalling - looked and tasted as if they'd come out of a cheap vending machine - not a great way to finish the meal. Bottom line - go for the signature steaks but avoid the coffee.”
Bar And Grill • 
“Visiting as a couple on a Thursday evening in late August, it started well. The maitre d' received us and showed us to our table, and asked if we would like Olives and bread whilst we made our menu choice, to which we said yes. Then our waitress arrived with the menus but not olives/bread - these eventually came after we had made our menu choices and asked more than once for them. The mains arrived very quickly, too quickly in fact as we'd hardly started on the nibbles. How was the food? The MPW signature steak au poivre was really excellent - a serious piece of fillet accurately cooked (mine was rare), the poivre sauce just this side of too peppery, the fricasse of mushrooms delicious and tasty. There was a side of Hoffmann chips which were less successful, being less than crisp and too thickly cut - I'd have preferred standard frites. My wife had the Alex James burger, which was unremarkable - adding bacon and blue cheese to an average burger still makes it an average burger. During the meal we were interrupted more than once by the waitress asking if everything was OK and "enjoy the rest of your meal", which was unnecessary and a bit intrusive to be honest. I have to mention the coffees though, because they were appalling - looked and tasted as if they'd come out of a cheap vending machine - not a great way to finish the meal. Bottom line - go for the signature steaks but avoid the coffee.”