Polpo

Excellent food and great service — Tom helped in recommending the best dishes, and was a great fella to discuss with. Will come back!

Was really excited to try Polpo so we went for our anniversary meal. It’s kind of like Italian style tapas. Menu all sounds great with nice variety. It’s recommended to have 2 – 3 dishes per person. We tried quite a few things… We started off with aranchini and these yummy smoked salmon and horseradish crostinis which was so good we ordered another portion. Then we had chilli & garlic prawns which my husband loved. Would have been good to get a finger bowl to clean your hands after though. We had the rabbit pasta can’t remember actual name, wasn’t fussed on this at all and had to spit out a few bits of bone which was quite off putting. By this point we was quite full but we had ordered a lot so the food kept on coming! We also had bread with ricotta, almonds and butternut squash. This was just ok… Tasted too much of olive oil, it would have been miles better if the squash was roasted rather than boiled and also it needed something else maybe some nutmeg or honey as it tasted bland. They have various different meatballs on the menu too which you can have on their own or with spaghetti and tomato sauce. We tried the lamb and mint flavour, very nice if rather mild in flavour but I didn’t mind that and we had a small bowl of Parmesan so we could add as much as we liked.
I had a lovely elderflower and ginger fizz drink and I also tried a sage drink which was just ok.
Glad I tried it but wouldn’t rush back especially as we found out that the service charge which is automatically added to the bill does not go to the waiting staff! Bang out of order. We had the 12.5% charge removed and just paid a cash tip so we knew they would be keeping it. I really hate when places do this and also try to get their staff to lie about it too!