text: Occupying what used to be Nicolson's (where some of Harry Potter was apparently penned) this is a welcome change back from the site's most recent use as a Chinese buffet restaurant. The space is well lit, particularly by the setting sun at this time of year, and furnished in an understated yet quirky fashion.\n\n\n The service is prompt and pleasant and the range of wines well priced, ranging from \u00a310.95 to around the \u00a325 mark. Unusually for a modest establishment of this sort they stock a dessert wine but that's to be commended.\n\n\n Opting for the pre-theatre menu (\u00a39.95 for two courses, \u00a312.95 for three) my starter of potted duck was an ample size although more than one pickle would have been an improvement. My companion's soup of the day was pronounced a success although I've forgotten the flavour. Our main courses of skirt steak with champ & braised onions and baked feta with beetroot, blood orange and chick peas were both great (NB - this was a starter deliberately ordered as the second course) and the cheese board (brie, manchego and a soft blue) is the first I've had in a long time where the proportion of biscuits to cheese was spot on (if only Qype would award half stars that alone would have been enough for one).\n\n\n I can readily see myself revisiting here soon.