No.1 Ship Street

Absolutely wonderful place. Refined, classy, great service, great food and great atmosphere. Really good value lunch menu too. The cassoulet special today (for 2 and a bargain at £45) was almost to die for!

Our set lunch of parsnip & apple soup, Confit chicken and rhubarb & elderflower fool was outstanding. A seemingly ordinary good value menu belied three attractive dishes with special tastes.

I ordered mushrooms and toast and got the cutest little boiled egg surprise. It was delicious. Clam linguine was pretty good. the steak was great. Small place, but great food. Would recommend.

Serious quality decline. I have come to ship street a few times over the years, in the past I have viewed it as a rather classy place, but was really disappointed in my recent visit. Service was very slow, perhaps being upstairs means that you more likely to be forgotten about, 30 minutes to have our order taken, we had our mains arrive 1h30 after being seated. One person in my party has a dairy allergy, in the past when I have eaten here the waiter would have complete knowledge of the menu, and would advice which menu items are affected, in in particular which components of the dish, since substitutes would sometimes be possible (e.g. we can cook the fish in oil instead of butter). These days it seems they hand you the allergy menu and let you work it out yourself, with no flexibility (and by default they add butter to 90% of the menu). By the way its really embarrassing that the allergy menu we were given had printing problems on it. As for the actual food, it is good, but seems to be subject to shrinkflation, the same way cheap low quality supermarket items are. There is no way a self respecting restaurant can charge £26 for 2 slices of duck (see picture attached), even cooked well its just disgraceful: half a duck breast to one customer, and the other half to another …

Fantastic bistro restaurant - a lovely afternoon chilling