Sunday Lunch at Bumpkin

A few Sundays ago, the bloke and I visited Stratford Westfield and the Olympic Park. We went up the AcelorMittal Orbit and also saw the Year of the Bus art charity sculptures for their final time in one place, the Olympic Park. I had also made a reservation to have lunch at Bumpkin, a restaurant chain selling primarily modern British food.

Bumpkin Stratford is located in the Westfield shopping mall complex, opposite John Lewis and the main Olympic Park entrance. We were seated, and I received a free glass of sparkling wine for signing up for their newsletter. 

I had the soup to start, and the bloke had bread. 

The soup of the day was mushroom, and it was delicious.

Next, we had our mains. I had the chicken, and the bloke had beef. They came with a Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. Gravy was poured on top of the Sunday roasts, but I wish it had not been as it was not the best gravy. It tasted "fake" and this somewhat spoiled the meal. 

I had a cocktail and a sundae for dessert. The cocktail was mainly full of ice, but it did taste good. The dessert was a Millionaire's Shortbread sundae, but the bits of shortbread were large frozen chunks (instead of bite-sized pieces) and difficult to eat.

I would go back to Bumpkin and try some of their other meals. If ordering the Sunday roast again, I would make sure that the gravy came on the side. We'd both assumed that the gravy would come in a little dish so we could pour on as much as we like. Overall, we felt that this was a nice restaurant, but we were let down by little things, such as the gravy issues, the slow service, and the hard frozen lumps of shortbread in the sundae.