Alston Bar & Beef (City Centre)

• This is a restaurant/bar with a difference
• Girlfriend and I will definitely be back but with friends or family
• Regardless of what else was on the menu
• He chose it because going out was a treat and steak was a rarity at home
• A slab of beef to me is synonymous with happy family times
• Grill On The Corner and The Grill Room are three examples of this
• The doorway is easy to miss &ndash
• Go in the main entrance to the station and Gordon St Coffee is on the left and its a single door after that as you&rsquo
• When you enter the cave you are facing the kitchens pass area so get some wonderful meaty smells and sights
• Through to the bar area with its gorgeous lights then to the tunnel shaped dining room
• What a pretty place and I found myself excited by dining in a venue that was slightly unusual
• The street is long gone but they can carry the name forward
• Blueberry jam sold it to me in an instant and it was as delicious as it sounds
• Menu wise they have a lunch and pre theatre menu with two courses for £
• Buoyed by the birthday celebrations we were eating from the main menu
• T want to spoil our appetites with starters so opted for a tin of bread with butter to see us through
• When it did it was warm (contented sigh)
• D like to say that soft butter is underrated in restaurants &ndash
• Really soft and fluffy on the inside with a nice crust
• When it was time for our main course they took out Alston branded plates with a big quinelle of no lump buttery mash
• A porterhouse has a bone down the middle with fillet steak on one side and strip sirloin steak on the other
• T matter too much because the beef that was in front of us was full of flavour and ranked up there with our best steaks
• A bit of the meat combined with those buttery mushrooms and mash was heaven
• S worth noting that the other sauces were buttery numbers and the sides were all rather buttery so I wouldn&rsquo
• The toilets were another plus point &ndash
• A very nice steakhouse with a nice wine list
• The food here was very nice and the dé
• They even have a train monitor so you can see when your train is ready to go

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