Julie's Restaurant

Our families have been going to Julie's for 35 years and were incredibly disappointed by our meal last night.
Initially the waitress had no idea what was not available on the menu and having decided from the limited choice, the entire party was shocked by the pathetic starter portions and general blandness...
When the main courses arrived, two of our guests who had ordered haddock found that the decorative grease proof paper had become soggy and attached to the fish, thus accidentally being eaten.
The service was poor and had clearly lost the lovely charm and personality for which it is famous and successful for.
Very bad Value for money and certainly an old favorite lost.
Fortunately Notting hill has plenty of great alternatives.

We went yesterday to Julie's. I wish I hadn't.
Starters: I ordered the "Brown butter and garlic potted shrimps", she had the "Smoked mackerel, halibut and salmon terrine with caper mayonnaise". Two of the worst starters I've ever had. Here's why. The shrimps plate was a dish with 5-6 slices of plain bread and a small bowl (5 cm across) filled with butter (which looked more like solidified duck fat -really!) in which you could find a few shrimps. Now, to call those shrimps is like to call an anchovies a blue whale. No kidding those are the cheapest crappies shrimps one can "buy". barely 0.5 cm in length chewy, etc. It was sent back straight away. Btw, Julie's robs 10.50 GBP for that!!!!! In replacement I asked for the gazpacho. Now, I am Spanish and I make my own gazpacho at home. But it doesn't matter. Even someone who would have never tasted tomatoes could tell that gazpacho was just a can of tomatoes, crushed. 6.50 GBP for canned tomatoes????!!!
Her terrine of smoked fish was a tasteless slice of smoked fish pate served with the same 5-6 slices of brown bread. No capper mayonnaise (as advertised) was to be found either.
The mains were better (it would have been difficult to get it worse anyways). I had the entrecote. It lacked flavour and the best part were the chips that came with it. Overall an ok dish, but when you factor the 25 GBP for that, you again feel the people at Julie's got the value for money equation completely wrong. She had the rack of lamb. 3 lamb chops, 2 bites per chop (50% was fat). Nice taste, but again, unimaginative and not good value for money.

Desserts: Eaton mess for her, brownie for me. The Eaton mess I saw in "come dine with me" looked and probably was immensely better than the one we got at Julie's. My brownie was disappointing (taste, portion, presentation). It was dry, hard on the edges (could not cut it with my knife) and again, 8 GBP.

VERY low food quality. Poor execution of dishes. VERY LOW value for money