Blooms Kosher Restaurant Restaurants

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• Blooms Restaurant

  The main feature of the restaurant is the delightful colourful mural. This restaurant has interesting ethnic decor and ethnic kosher food in huge portions.FoodHors D'OevresThey have two set menus or a la carte. I chose from the Set Menu 2 which offers hors d'oevres included chopped liver, egg and onion (mixed) which I liked. Their cheaper set menu like most other kosher restaurants lists chopped liver or egg and onion. The Set Menu 1 starters also include cold beetroot soup (borscht), haimische barley soup, lokshen (noodle) soup and kneidlach (dumpling) soup.Another starter on menu 2 is mixed chicken soup containing both kneidlach (dumpling) and kreplach (ravioli). It was okay. (But not as good as B & K.) Menu 2 offers the beetroot soup heated up. And gefilte fish (chopped fish balls), fried or boiled. Beef blintz (pancake). And duck salad.Granny was delighted with her soup. She usually send back her starters for being too cold or too spicy. She was very happy.EntreesThe cheaper menu 1 offer main dishes including viennas (sausages), worsht and egg, chicken curry, or turkey shnitzel.From dearer menu two my main course was duck with apple sauce and latke (grated potato fried). Granny ordered chicken. Son had steak. The portions chicken and duck were huge. The duck was okay. I was not keen on the apple sauce. Mixed hot vegetables gave us three sorts. I had a salad. DessertsCrumble was so-so. Strudel I thought was so-so but granny was happy. My lokshen pudding was passable. Good moist sultanas. It fell apart, like a plate of spagetti, instead of staying solid like a cheesecake. The decor here is far superior to tiny B & K salt beef sandwich bar. But their lokshen pudding suits me better. DrinkThis is the 'weakest link'. My coffee tasted like instant. served in a tall glass on a white plate. No brown sugar. I left half of it. (I noticed Starbucks and Cafe Nero are up the road near the station.)Orange juice from a carton. I'd have liked a freshly squeezed juice. Why go out for stuff that's inferior to what you can make at home? ServiceFast. Soup arrived in a trice. Although the tap water didn't turn up until I asked for it a second time when I asked for the bill. Nobody bothered to ask whether everything was all right. Leftovers were wrapped up efficiently and fast, no problem. DecorThe striking thing is the mural along one side showing a landscape including a waterfall which I imagine is Ein Gedi and little houses which I presume must be Jerusalem and figures walking around purposefully, (like Lowry's matchstick men) at the Wailing Wall. The mirror on the other side reflects the painting. Very clever. Two walls of views but you only pay the painter to do one. Of course the mirror glass costs too.Tables seemed to be varnished wood. We debated whether they were really wood. Cutlery included those striking knives which have the blade at right angles to the handle. PriceMeal for three was (one set menu one £16.95, two at £20.95, coffee, soft drink and orange juice from a carton, £64.70, about £71 after we added ten percent for service (not included).Kosher - this is a meat restaurant, no milk, so you get non-dairy milk for your coffee and the custard has no milk which explains why it looks a bit glutinous, almost transparent. If large numbers of people really are lactose intolerant, as one of the health newsletters I receive would have me believe, then a restaurant no serving milk could be the answer.ToiletWhy do they have a mezzuzah on a toilet door? You need mezuzzahs only on front doors and living rooms.Modern Ladies.Other dining options:Takeaway food counter at front. Tables on pavement outside. Will we go again? Granny says she could eat there every day. So the answer is yes.

  Angella
  Review Date: 03/03/2008 Report review