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75 Park Street

This Park Street cafe started doing food last year, but since it's normally rather smoky inside it didn't strike us as a particularly appealing place to eat. However, it was recently included in the Evening Post's usual yearly cheap-eats deal, so we thought we'd give it a try. Unusually, what we were offered there was apparently the full-on standard menu, rather than a cut down one such as many restaurants offer those taking advantage of their Evening Post tokens;
The Boston Tea Party are certainly to be applauded for this. However, having said that, the menu didn't actually offer a great deal of choice (two starters, one of which was soup, three main courses, one of which was vegetarian, but numerous deserts from the collection of cakes in the Cafe).

The dining area was pleasant enough (and not smoky at all, as we had feared) but perhaps rather dimly lit, and the service was friendly and pleasant. The main strength of the food here appears to be quantity; portions were certainly on the generous side (the leftovers from a neighboring table's cheese platter desert would have restocked our fridge for a month).

The downside was that it just wasn't very inspiring. The deserts were definitely the highlight of the meal (and you can just go in the cafe for those anyway). At seven pounds a head (plus wine) for three courses we considered our meal to be very good value. However, for sixteen pounds (the usual rate), we'd have been extremely disappointed.