Silk – Courthouse Hotel

2 Reviews on “Silk – Courthouse Hotel”

• Halal Chronicles

  The Silk Resturant is the architectural focal point of the Courthouse Hotel and michelin recommended. Once a real magistrates court, the place retains its character with wood panelling, judges bench and dock combined with a far eastern influence in keeping with its asian fusion inspired menu. The lamb and chicken is halal only. Starters consisted of pan seared scallops with artichokes and strawberries and tiger prawns with pineapples. The fruit against the scallops and prawns was a unique yet refreshing combination.

  August 22, 2015, 1:17 am

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• Halal Food Guy

  Silk is a restaurant hidden inside the Courthouse Doubletree Hotel. What makes this a place so unique that used to be a Grade II listed magistrates’ court building and you get to dine within a room that has history soaked into the oak-panelled room formerly the infamous Number One Courtroom. This location makes for a romantic setting or a girly catch up in a quirky environment. From the moment you walk into the small courthouse you can picture what it must have been like when it was a functioning room, you are really taken back with the intimate setting, there’s a definite wow factor.When seated the waiter gave me and my friend a brief history lesson about the silk trade shipping path that was on a large world map on the wall, which is where the restaurant gets its name from. The restaurant is small, despite this there were only a few eating here. The food is best described as a fusion of Indian and Asian cuisine. The menu wasn’t the most extensive and choices were a little limited, for starters I ordered the Patani Machli, which is Tilapia fish marinated and seared in a Banana Leaf along with the Poh Pia Je, Thai style vegetable spring rolls. I was very surprised with the lack of care and attention give to the presentation of both starters, it looked sloppy with little attention and care given. The spring rolls were unimaginative and dull, it was just some shredded carrot and vegetables in a dim dim roll. The Tilapia was better but lacked any real flavour and taste. For the main course I ordered the Kappario Chicken, semi dry chicken juliennes with a sweet basil sauce – which is basically small pieces of cut chicken my friend went for the Hainanese Chicken – corn-fed chicken breast with a soya and spicy dip – both meals were accompanied with rice. Now, I rather enjoyed my main course which simple and tasty, I liked the texture of small pieces of chicken, good meal. However, my friend’s chicken was really poorly cooked, it was tough, dry and wasn’t an enjoyable experience and at 18 it’s shocking. The Chicken was verbally confirmed as being Halal. Service was nothing outstanding, they were happy to accommodate us moving seats as I wanted to sit on the judge’s bench. So food was hit and miss, I picked some good choices, I dont think its worth the money, however as is almost custom, you are paying for the arena to eat in and not the food. Its a great place to eat due to its uniqueness and the character of the room. I’m glad I used my tastecard which gave me 50% off food and a discount of 24 quid, the total was just under 40Food – 2.5Value – 3 with tastecard/ 2 withoutService – 3.5 Atmosphere/environment – 4.5 halalfoodguy.co.uk

  September 13, 2014, 12:25 am

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