The Adam and Eve, Mill Hill - pub details
Address: The Ridgeway, Mill Hill Village, London, NW7 1RL [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 3566) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Mill Hill Broadway (1.4 miles), Hendon (2.8 miles), Oakleigh Park (2.8 miles)
Pub suggested by stuart on 19 Jul 2003
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> Current user rating: 5.0/10 (rated by 26 users)
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| no longer a pub, but most definitely a gastropub/restaurant type place with the usual makeover. ale very well kept but food has been hit or miss and yes as other have said overpriced. comments about the 4x4 crowd are on the mark. to be fair the times i've been here the food menu has been different so maybe they are trying out new things to get it right, there's pizza now if i'm not mistaken? still fine for a drink but as i say its not really a pub any more. Smithy_1973 - 2 Dec 2011 11:53 |
| I have to review the Adam and Eve again as I did not eat here on the previous occasion. I had eaten (various snacks) free of charge on their official opening night, which was excellent. I have now eaten in the restaurant. This was a mistake. It was also an expensive mistake! Some friends booked and invited us along. Firstly the menu is not the same as the menu on line. Whilst I accept dishes do and should change according to produce availability and for the purposes of offering something fresh but can you get any different to this offering? Please look at the a la carte menu on line. The main courses were: Steak and chips, Chicken and chips, Sausage and chips Haddock and chips, Sea bass, Lemon Sole and blue cheese salad. So, if you don't fancy fish or salad what do you have the choice of? Steak and chips, Chicken and chips or Sausage and chips in whatever flowery language you dress this up in! How very culinary! The menu was on a piece of paper six inches by 4 inches approximately, clipped to a piece of (I think) cardboard. If your eyesight is on the blink take your own magnifying glass as one is not provided. We asked was this the only menu and they said yes as it changes from day to day! With these delectable offerings it would need to!! So to the steak that was ordered rare. This was served with chips (skin on) half a tomato and one field mushroom. The mushroom was either steamed, boiled or microwaved and was pouring juice all over the plate. The tomato had said hello to the grill but unfortunately not stayed for too long! The chips were very over cooked (burnt) in oil that was clearly tainted from some other food. Now for the steak itself. The essence of a good steak rare or otherwise is to buy it well, cut it properly and to cook it correctly!!! This offensive lump of badly cut meat had been placed under a salamder/grill (or possibly on a skillet) that was not hot enough thus resulting in a steak that was not properly sealed and then had been laid to rest (IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN) in such a position that it was steamed. Having been treated in this manner the fat, of course, was completely uncooked. No steak knife was provided. So I asked for one. "We do not have steak knives as the steak melts in the mouth" was the swift reply. They clearly didn't understand that getting it to the mouth is the first requirement before it can be allowed to melt and melt it should have been allowed to do because it had most certainly gone through every other possible process since arriving in this pubs kitchen and before being unceremoniously dumped in front of me! This might sound harsh but this pubs web site needs to be read to understand that expectations would be naturally high when eating here. Also bear in mind that this steak was well over £20.00. The entire cost for four people for the night (with only two starters and no dessert, as none of us could handle it by then) £120.00 to include a bottle of house red and four other drinks. Add to this another £30.00 for two rounds of drinks downstairs and all in all this is one expensive night in a pub! There is a clear lack of supervision at all levels. Or to put it another way there is no management. My companion, for example, was sitting in the restaurant and in front of her was a bucket a mop and some cleaning rags. I couldn’t see this as the articles were behind me. This is such a fundamental mistake! If there is something positive to say it would be that the staff in the restaurant battled on bravely but they were eventually overwhelmed by the enemy within - the chef and the management team! Why, then are there so many people prepared to eat in places such as this? Because Mill Hill now does have a customer that has plenty of money and will eat in a place providing it is expensive. That particular type of customer has no idea of how food should be cooked or served or how it should taste. An open can of baked beans described as "Scatola di fagioli al forno servita con coperchio" with a £20.00 price tag would probably sell well here. I know this sounds snobbish but it is the main reason why so many of these expensive sub standard places are opening in this area. It is possible to eat far better at far less a cost quite locally and to have better trained staff to attend you and in a friendlier environment. I guess at least the young girls serving kept smiling. Sorry it's this bad but we all felt cheated. No chance of a return to this place for us. stemginger - 2 Jun 2011 15:58 |
| Six different ales, usual suspects including Old Speckled Hen, Abbotts, Doombar etc. Tried IPA at £3.40 a pint. It was well kept. Strange that for a place that advertises food to the fore front of all they do, that you can not get any type of bar snack or meal unless pre-booked. I was told they were too busy. There was only a sprinkling of people in the bar but the restaurant upstairs was heaving. We also found the wine to be a tad expensive for a not so generous a glass! Largely eastern european bar staff and lots of 'em! Quite a pleasant lot. Not my sort of pub, large open plan. On a Sunday lots of rugrats (4x4 types) Summed up? It's one for the 4x4 lot, which tends to be a fickle market but I accept if someone hadn't taken this pub on it would have closed. I have friends that have managed to eat here and they say the food quality is good. Wouldn't put someone off having the odd pint here. stemginger - 16 Feb 2011 16:27 |
| Flat capped working men, bicycle clips and whippets seem to have had their day and I'm afraid that cafe society is set to kill off all our pubs in time. Alas we can not halt the march of 'progress'. Snarling_Mallard - 12 Feb 2011 00:05 |
| Called in soon after it had re-opened. Expensive, trendy, very large open spaces - far more of a bar-restaurant than a pub, so if that's what you want, you'll like it. I didn't. The beer was ok but not especially well kept, it should be a lot better for the price they charge. mym - 2 Jan 2011 11:23 |
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