Yes, it was very nicely made up and yes, the open kitchen was kinda awesome to look at but the food was only so-so at best.

Granted there were only two of us, me and Selina, so there was only limited tummy space and we couldn’t try more stuff.

That being said, the meatloaf was flavourful but the the ketchup pasted on the top was completely overwhelming. We became muak with the thing whilst halfway through.

We also had the pork chops with stewed apple followed with an apple crumble. Mistake. The apple components for both dishes were identical. Tasty but a bit more creativity would have been appreciated.

Biggest let down of the night was, obviously, the dessert. We already had the same apples with our pork chops so no surprise there. The crumble however, was completely sogged up and mushy. In what appeared to be a desperate attempt to emulate some semblance of a crunch, cornflakes were scattered on top. Cheapo ice cream they used and to top it all off, we found a little bitty fly on our ice cream. When we told the little girl about that, she took it to the bar whereupon the fly was removed. Fullstop. We couldn’t be bothered to argue for a fresh dish anymore so that was that.

Overall, Betty’s was underwhelming. They could improve it by taking out the ‘prepare ahead, store and serve later’ thing (the onions must’ve been sitting around for awhile already, we didn’t touch them because they smelt like dishcloth.) I understanding kitchen workflow and all but it wouldn’t take much effort to bang lukewarm sides into a microwave for a brief blitz no? If you can’t do it, fake it; I always say.

Probably not going back.

-DenDeViL666-