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After watching this new restaurant from Gordon Ramsey be renovated just down the road, we thought it was time to check it out. Shame then, that it didn’t live up to its reputation…

Sunday 8th February

Went to the York and Albany today. The food was really good but the service made sure that we won’t be rushing back. On the plus points, the restaurant is light and airy, there’s a nice buzz to the place and they’ve done the refurb perfectly to keep the character of the old coaching house. And the food – oh my word, it was lovely. Chicken liver and rillettes starter followed by some fantastic roast beef. My partner’s soup was lush and his roast lamb was lovely although he grumbled that there wasn’t much on the plate.

And so to the service… first they brought us the wrong starters and then attested that my partner had said ‘the same’ when in fact he said ‘the soup’. …ok fair enough, small mistake – no probs. Then they only bought over one drink when we asked for two. Then they forgot to bring us our wine with our main courses – and then had to ask us to re-order the wine as they didn’t know what we’d ordered. Then I asked for extra gravy which never came, no apology, no acknowledgment I’d ever asked. Then a passing waiter dropped a yorkshire pud down a women’s back who sat next to us – we repatriated the offending pud with the waiter. And then just as our we’re-paying-£70-for-lunch patience started to run out, they gave us the bill and they’d overcharged us… So while all of these are minor offences, the sum total of them is not what you’d expect from a restaurant in this price category. Especially when there’s a 12.5% service charge added to your bill no matter what.

Think we’ll be going back to Market in future which is a shame as I really wanted to love this place.