Scruffy's
When does a pub become a restaurant? Or vice versa?
Scruffy's looks like a pub. It smells like a pub; fag-ash and beer-fumes being the predominant odours that greet you as you cross the threshold from Derby Road. Oh let's face it, it is a pub. There is nothing wrong with pubs of course, in fact I am a big fan of them. And some pubs serve excellent food and not all of them smell of fag-ash.
But Scruffy's is aptly named and as a restaurant it's a decidedly informal student dive. Twenty years ago I'm sure I would have loved it, but not any more. It's cheap and cheerful - our (student?) waitress could not have been more charming after our vegetarian diner detected meat in her vegetarian stuffed potato skins - "I'm sooo sorry, the chef is half asleep!" They removed it from the bill without question.
But it's basic pub food all the same.
Scruffy's looks like a pub. It smells like a pub; fag-ash and beer-fumes being the predominant odours that greet you as you cross the threshold from Derby Road. Oh let's face it, it is a pub. There is nothing wrong with pubs of course, in fact I am a big fan of them. And some pubs serve excellent food and not all of them smell of fag-ash.
But Scruffy's is aptly named and as a restaurant it's a decidedly informal student dive. Twenty years ago I'm sure I would have loved it, but not any more. It's cheap and cheerful - our (student?) waitress could not have been more charming after our vegetarian diner detected meat in her vegetarian stuffed potato skins - "I'm sooo sorry, the chef is half asleep!" They removed it from the bill without question.
But it's basic pub food all the same.