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Ealing Sunday Lunch League - THE GROVE

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First up in my ESSL is The Grove, a pub known for its good quality food offering, comfy but eclectic decor and prosecco by the glass (big tick already!). As this post is about the Sunday Lunch and not about the pub as such, I will save my critique of the place for another time and go straight in on the lunch. What follows are key food photos and then our verdict of how The Grove performed against my judging criteria. Bloody Mary station The Mulbs always gets his own chair The money shot   Was it something I said? Food photos out the way, here's how they did: QUALITY OF PRODUCE 7/10 Beef was Dexters but no clear provenance of anything else SERVICE 6/10 'OK' - gave us the wrong condiments (they are meant to bring horseradish and mustard but we got mayo and ketchup) but fine apart from that. APPEARANCE 7/10 See photos  TASTE 7/10 Meat was quite chewy but this might have been because we asked for rare and the york