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(continued from review): – Afternoon tea: Great selection and generous amount of food. Sandwiches were tasty, bread was fresh and soft, I think one was cream cheese and carrot lox, other two I'm not sure but one was very tasty. Really good scones – Rich buttery flavour, Nice and soft with lots of raisins, delicious with the cream and jam. Cream was light and sweet. Granola bar was really good with great texture and flavour, trillionaire tart had a nice dense texture and was very chocolatey with a rich flavour, biscoff cake was fresh with soft sponge, great flavour and delicious icing. They also sell all three of these in the bar e.g. for afternoon snack. Had to take the cake to eat later as we were stuffed after the rest of the food – Pornstar martini: very tasty – Truffle wild mushrooms: lots of flavour and the bread was tasty and crispy, my favourite of the three starters we had this night – Lebanese Caprese: fresh salad flavours contrasted really nicely with the Rich bitterness of the tahini –smoked sea salt & Rosemary Foccacia (Seasonal special): Nice crispy bread with lovely creamy Hummus –slow cooked seitan shortrib: corn was delicious, Nice seitan texture, sweet potato soft and tasty, not the biggest fan of the cinnamon and sweet flavour of the seitan but was still good but think I would've preferred a more typical rich smoky flavour – Middle eastern Kofta: Great mixture of flavours, interesting and delicious, bread also nice and soft, a little bit spicy – Banana blossom & chips: lovely crispy chips with great flavour, soft and fluffy inside, very tasty with the tartar sauce and mushy peas which both had good flavours, Banana blossom was decent although could've had more flavour and batter could've been a bit crispier – Basil & pumpkin seed pesto pappardelle with added 'chicken': tasty pesto flavour, good pasta texture, generous amount of 'chicken ', could've had a bit more flavour –English asparagus & pea risotto (Starter, seasonal special): tasty and creamy but glad I had as a starter rather than main as they have better main options than this – Espresso martini: strong coffee flavour, nicely tipsy after – Spiced Potato & sweet pea samosas: tasty filling and delicious, super crispy pastry – Tamarind treacle-glazed baby back 'ribs': tasty, similar flavour to the 'short rib' main – Mushroom stroganoff pudding and North Indian Thali: both tasty but I indulged too much earlier in the day and I was too full by the time I ate them to properly assess them! The only negative of our stay was that we came home from a walk on one of the days to find our room door open with work men with a ladder and toolbox set up inside. It turned out they were there to fix the mirror but we had had no communication about this and were shocked to come back and find our door wide open. Initially the staff didn't seem that apologetic either although after we stressed our disappointment they did give us a free drink each and were apologetic again when we checked out. Ultimately this was just a blip in an otherwise wonderful stay and we would definitely come back!