Brasserie Murdoch's Books & Ale Review

This is the bar of the Phoenix Hotel, small and friendly, a little expensive, although in the middle of the city so I guess not so bad. The bar does food which looked nice, didn't try it ourselves.

We stopped for a late lunch here and ordered a lemonade, coke, club sandwich and a dish called herring 5 ways. The chicken in my club sandwich was burnt and left a bad taste in the mouth. The herring 5 ways had far too much vinegar and salt and was inedible. We sent it back and ate the chips that were a side dish. We had to wait a long time for the bill and when it came the manager argued with me in the middle of the restaurant that I would still have to pay for the herring dish, to which I refused. Having a background in fresh food retail in the UK I explained that I would not expect to pay for something that I had sent back to which eventually backed down. It did not meet any of my expectations.