This week Connie turned 30 and to celebrate we all trooped down to Galvin at Baker Street. Galvin is billed as a French Bistrot De Luxe with the restaurant boasting using the best of British and French regional produce in its seasonal menu.

Run by two classically trained Michelin-starred brothers – Chris and Jeff Galvin – you would expect to be paying through the nose to eat at such a restaurant. Especially when you see how classy the restaurant appears to be when you first walk in and the numerous wait staff dotted all over the small space. Instead to our surprise the three-course set menu for lunch cost a mere £15.50 (with dinner being only £2 more.) The Galvin approach to the restaurant is to keep things as simple and as low-key as possible and never was this more evident than in the way the booking was handled. When Connie first rang through to book the restaurant it was one of the Galvin brothers who actually answered the phone and he was in the kitchen cooking at the time! Its nice to see that they are relaxed enough to answer the phone when needed.

Our food was absolutely amazing. It was all kept very simple but clearly the ingredients were extremely high in quality. The portions were just about right and I only just had enough room after my three courses to indulge in the birthday cakes baked especially for the two birthday celebrants by the chefs of Galvin.

I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Galvin. If the restaurant was let down at all it was by their wait staff who just couldn’t seem to handle our two tables – there were probably about 22 of us and about 6 of them so I’m not sure how they could constantly keep getting our orders wrong. The funny thing was that it was always the same few people who kept getting the wrong dishes! Despite the mix-ups we all had a really great time. We had so much fun that we hadn’t even realised we’d been in the restaurant for about 4 and a half hours!