Do not eat here if you enjoy friendly, competent service. The food is extremely average, the atmosphere pretentious and the service appalling.

While the art decor ocean liner style of the venue is spectacular (whether to your taste or not) the service and food do not live up to the grandeur.

Before we got to the table (booked for 6pm on a Friday night), we had been reminded three times that the table had to be free at 8pm.

The menu is far too long. Usually a sign of frozen food. A starter of calamari confirmed this. They were clearly frozen and then fried, but what possessed the restaurant to fry them in sump oil?

That is the only way I can think to describe the rancid taste. Despite all three of us leaving half our starters each, the waiter did not enquire as to whether anything was wrong when he cleared the plates.

Our main courses followed with alarming speed. Something to do with needing the table back perhaps? In case we'd forgotten.

Three different main courses, spaghetti with clams, fishcake and veal were all dumped down in front of us.

The veal was dry and tasted as if it had been deep fried in the same sump oil as the calamari starter.

The fish cake was dry with what little passing nod to ocean fishiness it possessed being beaten into subservience by a too spicy sauce in which it was soaked.

And the spaghetti, usually a pretty safe speciality of an Italian restaurant, was too plain and cold to be appetising; the clams in the pasta were gritty reminders of the sand in which they normally dwell.

A request for mayonnaise to go with the chips accompanying the fishcake resulted in a small pot of sour cream.

And a jug of Pimms (at £25) which claimed to offer an average of 10 glasses was served in shallow martini glasses, not Pimms highball glasses, and produced just 7 small servings.

After our main course (no comment on the half eaten meals) we were reminded again of the need to have the table back. The food was beyond poor and the price was staggering for the qual

Loved this restaurant, my boyfriend brought me here as a surprise!