I haven’t seen Jenny in what feels like absolute ages so tonight we headed to the Sherlock Bar and Grill for a good gossip session. Ours first choice, Floridita, was unfortunately booked out so the cool sounds of jazz over yummy Latin food will have to wait for another occasion. Sherlock Bar and Grill is actually not themed on anything other than taking advantage of its Baker Street location to capitalise on the good name of one Sherlock Holmes.

The restaurant is located to the rear of the lobby of the Park Plaza Hotel and behind the lounge bar so the contrast as we walked in at 6.30 tonight was quite astounding as we made our way through a loud and buzzing bar to an absolutely empty restaurant devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever. Not that we minded so much as we were there for a natter anyway. By the time we left the small restaurant was quite full – maybe something to do with hotel restaurants not getting busy until late.

The menu is Modern Europen with a decent, if not particularly innovative, selection on their a la carte menu covering game, meat, fish and something for the vegetarian. Jenny and I decided to go with mains and desserts (how could I resist the berry and lemongrass crumble with vanilla ice cream) with Jenny opting for a divine looking monk fish and tiger prawn dish and me opting for my usual salmon with a gigantic side of mash.

My dish looked okay but the colours kinds of reflected the taste – green and white – unfortunately I think they must have forgotten to season the dish as it wasn’t particularly tasty! Thankfully the fried onions from our complimentary breads were still hanging around to mix in with the dish. Actually, the breads were pretty darn good with three kinds of bread given to us without being asked for and served with a nice balsamic vinegar/olive oil combo.

Service was pretty decent tonight though at the beginning when there were not many diners one of the waitresses was strangely more pre-occupied with folding serviettes than seeing if anyone in the room needed her attention. We were taking advantage of 50% off food top table offer so the food was extremely good value for what we got. Though I wouldn’t say the Sherlock Bar and Grill was anything spectacular and special I would say with the 50% off offer its not a bad option if you want some decent grub (just choose a bit more wisely than me and don’t choose the poached salmon!)