Excellent Christmas meal at Franklins!

[Sue]

As I had a moan on here about the truly abysmal Christmas meal we had at The Cherry Tree last year, I am redressing the balance by saying we had a really excellent Christmas meal at Franklins last night.

Every course was absolutely delicious and  really well cooked. The staff were lovely despite being exhausted and run off their feet.

In particular, my sea bass was a large portion and cooked to perfection, in stark contrast to the small dried up portion The Cherry Tree provided, from which I was barely able to scrape a teaspoonful of flesh (that is not an exaggeration).

And our Franklins meal cost less than half what we paid at The Cherry Tree (to be fair, that was on Christmas Day so the Cherry Tree costs would have been higher, but that doesn't excuse the appalling quality meal).

Thank you again to Franklins for restoring our faith in eating out at Christmas! 

[Sephiroth]

Good to hear Sue - I  love Franklin’s 

Although to be fair it would be a mad world where decades old local institution couldn’t do much better than (gawd help us all) a generic Youngs pub 

(I had better meals in that place when it was the vale and ran by the Murphia. And that was fairly poor food even then ) 

[Jenijenjen]

I was trying to remember when Franklins moved to Lordship Lane from Walworth Road where it was combined with an antique/bric a brac shop. Mid 1990s, first wave ED gentrification?