Review Jamie Oliver's Restaurant Norwich YUK!!!!!

I hate a ranty rant but we had a crappy lunch and i need to vent

As parents we don't get to spend time together as a couple most of the time we get are snatched lunches at a restaurant. Yo sushi is a nice hang out good honest food clean on the pallet tasty and fresh and the ever moving plates of food are a distraction and nice balence of theater for the kids so that we get a brief chat and focus on each other and the hub bub stops the kids squiddling on our laps or getting off their chairs and the endless loo stops.

So a Stop in Norwich and a rare chance for a lunch and an attempt to look lovingly at each other and remember when we had the youth and romance in our relationship, we  choose to step outside the Yo sushi habit and went to Jamie Oliver's restaurant.

Nice setting upstairs, a little theme like downstairs, but ok, we got a table right away which was great even with our push chair. Great service, fast service, even better when you have two kids who have not learnt patience and want their lunch right now.

Starters were 50/50 i had squid which was nice, Ali had mozzarella balls which squirted water when we bite into them, very odd, and we can only think they were frozen before, we have made deep fried cheese at home before and never had squirty cheese balls.  The kids had no starter as they eat slow and went straight to mains.

lamb ravioli my choice after the waiter said i would not be disappointed. The plate turned up looking like some one had thrown up in my bowl and chucked a few fried sage leaves on top,  it tasted mono chrome, dull and boring and i found 1 mushroom, the slow cooked lamb ravioli was a lamb paste in a pasta and which was disappointing and i had to force myself to eat it as we skipped breakfast for the special treat.  I felt a bit ill after eating it too, until later that evening. I left feeling unsatisfied and pissed off that our experience had been ruined.

Sophie choose  hot dogs and spat them out as the skin and fat was more than she liked and i had to peel her second hot dog which was thick in skin, her chips on the side were soggy but her greens were interesting for her to eat, lettuces sliced and pepper cubes.

Ella refused to eat her sliders, so unlike Ella to leave any food on her plate. she ate the buns and left everything else which was soggy chips again of which she had 4.  I tasted her sliders they were charred, which i think was supposed to be but they were too charred and made them dry and taste of burnt. Both the kids dinners were served on wooden boards unpractical for kids really.

Ali had an impressive looking 3 lamb chops, impressive as the long rib bone was left on and it came with lots of little pots of stuff  the lamb chops like Ella's sliders were all burnt and which tainted all the meat making them taste bitter. Again served on a long board on top of 2 food cans is this some kinda fancy pant rusticness, just give me the food normally please its about the food !!

The girls had chocolate ice cream for pudding, which had the coco taste but no substance to the cream part and tasted like iced coco powder in very skimmed milk.  Both adults opted out of pudding as Ali couldn't face any more food however i was hungry after leaving my main but didn't want to eat a pudding alone.

we left feeling disappointing and sad that our adult time was ruined by crappy food presented nicely, pissed off we paid £63 for awful food and pissed off our kids were asking for food when we left and saying please don't take us back to Jamie's restaurant again it was yuk!

I love kids, they say it how it is!