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Miller & Carter – restaurant review
Miller & Carter’s location on the main road next to Cribbs Causeway leaves little to be desired. But once off the dirty highway, nestled behind an ivy-covered cobbled wall and several trees, the steakhouse is in sight.
A modern glass and timber building with original beams inside, it makes for a cosy meal, and yet classier than some other establishments of its genre.
It’s a Wednesday afternoon and it is buzzing – already a haunt for staff dos and old chums to catch up. Christmas has come early at Miller & Carter, where the dark wooden interiors have been blinged up by baubles, with twinkling lights reflecting off the masses of glass and where Christmas classics play softly in the background.
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The menu is simple and unassuming. A veritable meat feast and certainly not for the herbivore-minded (though there are veggie options). This is a steakhouse: why fix it if it ain’t broke?
The steaks are all served with a salad wedge, a sauce and fries of your choice. The rump steak which has been wet and dry aged for 30 days, is tender and juicy, the peppercorn sauce is just the right level of fieriness and it comes to £14.50.
The onion loaf which also accompanies the dish is crunchy, giving a delightful new texture next to the steak on the plate. Besides which, Miller & Carter is more than just slabs of meat, there are burgers (£7.95), fish and chips (£7.95) and for those who chose to surf and turf, a side of half a lobster for £7.75.
If you’re searching for no-nonsense good food for a decent price, (a lunchtime deal of one course from £7.95, two from £10.95 and three from £13.95), then look no further. The food was delicious, the ambience was pleasant and the service provided by Aaron the delightful waiter assigned to our table was impeccable.
For those lucky non-drivers, there’s a bar and several steaky-sounding cocktails, which, reassuringly perhaps, have nothing to do with meat: The Butcher’s Cuban and the highly recommended Thorny Cow for £7.50 each, looked and sounded like just the thing to take the edge off a cold winters’ day.
A good-ol’fashioned lunch wouldn’t be complete without dessert. With that in mind the raspberry crème brûlée arrived in record time, garnished with freeze dried raspberries atop the crackable sugar shell of the brûlée and a sprig of mint. Creamy heaven.
It’s not earth shattering, innovative cuisine, but it is satisfying, warming, wintery food, served in a tarted up pub setting.
A chain which prides itself on using British and Irish farms for its beef supplies, Miller & Carter will do well, especially when it’s just across the road from thousands of hungry and furious Christmas-shopping punters.
Miller & Carter, Cribbs Causeway, BS10 7TL