Franklins
Wednesday 6th February, 2008
British
205 Kennington Lane,
Actual price per head: £44
Nearest tube: Kennington (Northern Line), or Vauxhall (Victoria Line). Kennington is closer.
Comments
Set menu: £25.50 for three courses. Wine: £12.50 per bottle (22 bottles between 24 drinkers!). Mineral Water: £25. Coffee: £31. Service Charge: £121
Soup: good, Partridge Rillette: filling, Herring: miniscule, Welsh Rarebit: strangely brown
Bean Stew: slightly undercooked, Haddock: small portions, Mallard: good portion, slightly underdone, Ox Cheek, Trotter, and Mushroom Pie: very good
Rhubarb Crumble: sweet, Coffee Parfait: very sweet
Chris S. said:
Just a bit of feedback on Franklins: they seem to have a problem cooking things thoroughly enough – my beans were really too chewy and could have done with another ten minutes in the pressure cooker and the guy next to me had to leave half his fish because it was so underdone – still completely translucent.
Although this restaurant is near to me and wasn’t terrible, I wouldn’t hurry back.
Attendees
Andy M., Chris C., Chris S., David C., David E., Doug M., Harrie B., Iain C., Ian S., Indra T., John H., Mark W., Matt W., Matthew T., Michael S., Neil O., Paul R., Paulo B., Richard G., Richard W., Robert J., Rodney W., Royston G., Steven V., Timur C.