What do yis want to eat

Yes that is how the waitress at The Chophouse addressed us when she came to take our order!!! 

After about two years since our last visit we decided to return to The Chophouse when Sean's brother came to stay with us for the weekend. I don't know if I had rose tinted memories of my last visit but I found this trip to be very hit and miss.. 

We arrived about 20 minutes early for our table but as the place was practically empty it wasn't an issue. 

Here's the menu

The specials are up on a blackboard. In fact there's more info on the blackboards dotted around than on the above menus.

The bread that was brought to the table was good. 

So we were asked what we wanted to eat. I chose the rare yellow fin tuna. Fiancé and his brother decided to share the fish board. 

For main course I chose the 8oz fillet of Hereford Beef. I asked for Bearnaise sauce and ended up having my sides changed from the standard gratin potato and spinach and garlic cream to chips, caramelised onions & green beans. I won't complain about that as I don't actually like potato and the lads got to eat the chips. Sean chose the fish and chips and his brother went with the ribeye. In case your wondering the sauce on my board was pepper not Bearnaise but that was easily swapped over.

For dessert I chose the Asiette of chocolate (chocolate raspberry opera, chocolate hazelnut brownie @ chocolate mousse) with an americano. Sean had an espresso martini and his brother tried the poitin smash. 

OK so the food is great. The service not so much. I assume they're mental busy when there's games on at Aviva but they weren't that busy at that hour (and the rugby game was away that day!) 

We were brought to our table. It had been reset from the last sitting but not wiped down. We had to ask for the table to be wiped and it was done half arsed. They wiped one half of the table down and left the glass marks on the other half of the table! 

Other tables were brought a board with all the various cuts of beef and these were explained. I mean I know steak but I assume that that is part of the experience if you decide to visit here.

I could be wrong but it seemed to me that if you were a regular you got a lot of attention from the wait staff. This visit would not encourage me to return. Especially when it's not in the centre of the city and there are plenty of other places to try.