My fella and I went to Trinity for the set Sunday Lunch, and at £25 for 3 courses, proved to be EXCEPTIONAL value for money. The menu was varied and all courses were hearty and sublime. The experience was only let down by the standard of service and hygiene (wobbly table, dirty cutlery and dark toilets) which we felt were below par for a restaurant of this calibre.

I have now been to Trinity in Clapham twice. My first visit was a grown-up lunch for six at the tail-end of the summer. On that occasion, the food was very good, but the kitchen service patchy: as an example, we had a duck salad turn up at the table sans duck. Pretty feeble in a restaurant not even half full.

My second trip to Trinity was a few weeks ago and was a family gathering of four children and five adults for Sunday lunch.
Although there were other children in the restaurant, I wouldn't recommend bringing them here. It's not an oppressive anti-child environment by any means, on the contrary, all of the waiting staff were very good with them, but the menu is incredibly fussy with gastronomic terms overused for the sake of gravitas. It's also the kind of place where they will be bored.

So, the food. Where to begin?
The starters were fairly well received. Most of us had goujons of plaice with tartar sauce, which were enjoyed.
I began with a baby beetroot, duck egg and goats cheese salad, which was ok - reasonable looking but not a taste sensation by any stretch of the imagination.

We all had the roast rib of Anglian beef, which had to be pre-ordered and we were charged a £2 supplement per person for.
I'm not much fussed whether it was Anglian, Australian, or Arabian, it was a very fatty cut and the meat, once dished up onto plates, looked to be very small in portion size. This is true also of the vegetables that came with the main course: roast potatoes, roast parsnips and boiled carrots. We had one bowl of each to pass around a table of nine. By the time we'd served everything onto plates, the meat had turned cold.

As far as I'm concerned, the first rule of a roast dinner is that you can never have too many roast potatoes. There should always be plenty because everyone loves them, don't they?
Trinity didn't seem to understand this. Most of us got two potatoes and three of us had only one

The fixed price menu at Trinity Restaurant has a sensible but not overwhelming choice of starters, mains and puddings. Familiar Sunday favourites sit alongside more adventurous choices and vegetarians options. I opted for a starter of game rillettes with red wine and pears. The rillettes arrived in their own kilner jar, enticing and at least enough for a family of four. It is sometimes hard to avoid a rather greasy aftertaste with rillettes but these were superb.


For my main I went for the sea bream which was perfect with a crisp skin but juicy fish underneath. The accompanying baby squid was soft and tender. The Trinity Restaurant mango posset was intensely flavoured. It did not need its covering of cream, perhaps a separate jug might have been a better idea.