The Projectionist, Hungry Horse

I have visited the projectionist many times since it opened last year and every time I have been with family and friends we have had a great time. the food is superb, the service is great and always friendly. Never ever had a bad experience and highly recommend going there.

I actually chose this place over Bar Varia — I know I couldn’t believe it either — it’s just I have a slightly gammy foot at the moment, and we were in a rush to get to Ikea, and because we hadn’t been to a Hungry Horse before.
It feels like being in a cross between a Wetherspoons and a Beefeater, a bit wipe-​clean and soulless but efficient, practical and comfortable. A plethora of menus of up to A3 size are on every table, you choose your food and then you pay for it whilst quoting your table number. It’s pretty much your standard steakhouse/​grill kind of menu, but I went for the 20oz Megasaurus steak — real dinosaur don’t ya know — that comes with chips, peas and onion rings. It was a bit of a wait at the till to get served, but luckily she was paying and I relaxed, slumped on my chair like a giant slug awaiting an enormous lettuce leaf! 20oz, ah yes, I was drooling.
It came, it was huge, but I conquered all. The peas were tiny (tres petits-​pois?) and the onion rings were not bad at all. The chips were as good as any that aren’t double, triple or quadruple-​fried, crisp on the outside, soft on the in, and of a nice chipping potato. Surprisingly the steak was cooked exactly to order. Medium-​rare, juicy and frankly as tender as I could possibly expect for the money. The only slight downside for me was the taint of liver-​like taste in the meat. It was only marginal and not enough to put me off my lunch, but it was there. There can be many reasons for this so I won’t bang on about it, but for me I would still give it 4 stars as a great value meal.