Winner of the Time Out Eating and Drinking Awards 2001 for the Best Gastro pub, The Fire Stables serve a variety of beers, wines and spirits as well as traditional pub grub.
After our usual last minute dinner spots were too busy or didn't have a favourite dishes running that night, my noyfriend and I thought we'd try out the Fire Stables and I'm glad we did...
It was a Thursday night and it was heaving! From the bar to the main restaurant area, we luckily nabbed the last table. There was a great buzz and atmosphere to the place. The wine selection is good as were the mix of fresh baked complimentary breads.
We order 2 starters to share, my boyfriends duck spring rolls were delicious - very rich and satisfiyingly filled with soft, juicy duck. Sadly, my starter never arrived - to which the friendly, smiling camp waiter suggested that we never ordered it - but if he had actually written our order down maybe this could of been avoided...
My partners pan cooked chicken breast wrapped in parma ham was nice but a little bland, my salmon on a bed of shredded crisp lettuce and spring onions with a hoi sin style drizzled sauce was yummy but would no way of been enough for a someone with a larger appetite.
Service was quite slow as there was only 2/3 people serving all night and as I said it was very busy.
I had the chocolate brownie with expresso ice cream - although the brownie was a touch too hard it was very rich and fudgy textured in the center and went superbly with the delicious ice cream that was perfectly creamly without the sickly, over sugared offerings from many coffee flavoured desserts.
I would def go back but maybe on a less busy night, in a hope the speed and level of service improved!
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