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The Pumphouse
My daughter and I visited The Pumphouse for the first time for dinner on 21 March.
The staff were pretty useless except one guy who seemed to do everything - mix cocktails, wait at tables and organise the bills. He was great.
There were 2 menus on our table but we had to ask for the cocktail list and wine list! We ordered 2 cocktails which were just OK but sooooo pricey! £8 for a Mai Tai - you must be joking. We gave our food-order to a disinterested waitress with the strict instruction not to serve before we had finished our cocktails. She completely disregarded this request. The starter - Shrimp Cocktail ("as it ought to be") - arrived even before our cocktails were even on the table! Hopeless.
Incidentally, Shrimp Cocktail "as it ought to be" does NOT consist of tiny frozen, pealed shrimps with just one or two small ones in their shells (probably also frozen) on a plate! The food wasn't too bad - my daughter had the bass fillets and I had the pork belly. But the prices charged are astronomical for a restaurant in N8. PW