The Old Bank

My husband booked a table for two here. It was actually my idea, seeing it as one of the restaurants in the neighbourhood we’ve not been yet. Also, I was a little dubious about the mixed Unilocal reviews it’s had over the last few years. I thought I’d be a fairy Unilocal mother for the night and celebrate Valentine’s day with my husband at the same time.
We were welcomed by friendly staff. A bit sad we were ushered to our seats sandwiched in between a big group and a loud couple. Nevermind, that didn’t dampen our experience as I was really looking forward to some good food.
I had a bottle of Peroni and Mark had a bottle of IPA. We both ordered steak and ribs with chips. I like my steak well done and Mark like his medium rare. Both came in good time. However, I soon found out my steak was still mooing and Mark’s was well done so had to switch plates when he’s already smothered the steak with damn pepper sauce! I dare not said anything and just scraped it off. I had garlic butter with my steak and it was really nice. The rack of ribs were delicious. The meal really busted my belly and I was left impressed.
My husband’s input is he was impressed with the speedy bill upon request. It’s nice to finish off our drinks in our own time and not spending much time making eye contact with waiting staff for the bill.
I’d come back on a special occassion definitely.

Perfectly serviceable steakhouse — not a particularly complex menu-​think steak or ribs or chicken or a combo. Seemingly very popular, with no free tables early on a Saturday evening.
A rather uninspired wine list, but the steaks our party had were all deemed excellent, while ribs were merely «good». Importantly, a request for rare steak was met with steak that was indeed rare. very pleasant and convivial.

Heard great things about this place but the quality failed to materialise today.
I’m love chicken wings.
You could say I’m a bit of a wing-​nut.
With this in mind I had to order a pound of wings to start — they came out and I think their scales must have been broken as there was nowhere as many as this. The wings were obviously pre packaged, probably from brake brothers or a similar frozen wholesaler. Most of the bones inside the wings were snapped which meant splinters of bones whilst we were eating them. They were served with a blue cheese sauce — this was pretty good.
Main course — everything is overpriced
We both went for a rib combo — me with more chicken wings and my wingman (excuse the pun) went for prawns with his.
The ribs came out and looked pretty good however cold ribs are not what we ordered. They took them back and heated them up but unfortunately you only really get one try at delivering quality and although the second attempt was hot we were a bit un-​enamoured by this time.
Another thing — £4.95 for a 440ml can of Guinness? Have a word! This is daylight robbery! £7.50 for a double gin and tonic?
We weren’t at a festival!!!
The waiter was good though — probably the best part of the experience.
If you want ribs/​steaks/​burger go elsewhere. There are much much better options out there.

There’s two things you can guarantee here, the first is, great food, the second is, you’ll never be given the earlybird menu.
I don’t always eat from that menu but as I don’t eat late and my favourites are hot wings and ribs then I may as well take advantage of the earlybird menu if I’m in there while it’s available.
I’ve eaten here in excess of 20 times over the last 3 years and just once was I given that menu, in fact it was the very first time I ate here in 2011.
So, what is he point of having an earlybird menu which is clearly advertised on their website if it’s not offered, this obviously is a managerial decision not to offer it, but only when it’s asked for.
The whole purpose of it like many restaurants is to get customers in, in their less busy times.