Review of the Review of The Gate

WRFW recommend you read this first > http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/restaurants/902565-the-gates-meat-free-menu-avoids-all-the-cliches-of-vegetarian-eating


And only then, read our Review of the Review ...






We like Gate, we like meat, we like Marina, we like this review.

Enticed we are, mmmm (Yoda) (tripped in the 70's whilst watching StarWars in the Rayners Lane Odeon and have never fully recovered) by the statement that "simple stuff becomes sophisticated. As Marina describes and entices us with her words of wisdom and envied experience and knowledge. Did that make sense? We don't care. 

If ever anything might tempt WRFW to eat a vegetarian meal – it is Marinas review of Gate. Not once did this fair maiden mention "eclectic" and that in itself is a plus in our book – she could have done of course and quite easily but, well done her – she didn't.

In a simple paragraph we know the chefs, who they are and their background. Marina takes the trouble even to tell us about the vegetarian wine and precisely why it is vegetarian

Delighting at the naughtiness of ordering a risotto cake because it is "bound to be a claggy abomination" caused us to squirm with delight on our bar-stool. Rushing to read to the end, we gasped for breath and read the review again.

Lavender brulee is a favourite of ours and so we hope they dry it out a bit, soon. You can keep the chilli chocolate though – THAT is emperors new clothes and we'd rather wet our digits and finger ants into our mouth any day.

Opening all day is a plus as our timing is off recently and we tend to dine at around 11:00am. Not sure about the schlepping Sir Paul McCartney though – it would be quite annoying if he turned up just as we were tucking into a plate load of broad bean quenelles and their accompanying ballast.

The place does look a little dark although Marina probably had her digi-cam shutter speed a little too rapid – ooh we have those exact same main lights in our workshop.

Nice one Marina – Gate is back on our list. Pah! "neatly folded programmes" indeed