Dusk, New Street
Rating: 
ave. food price: £5
Ave. drink price: £2
Dusk is a lively place on a weekday evening. Popular with students and a slightly raffish middle-aged crowd, it will usually feature on a bar crawl - largely because of the two for £4.50 offer on cocktails.
But as a place to eat, it is overlooked. At lunchtime it was quiet, the wooden chairs not looking quite as appealing as they had done the night before. There wasn’t any sign of the staff when we arrived, but when they did appear we were well looked after. Our food came quickly and there was even an apology for the lack of lemon slices in the coke.
The menu follows a simple formula: simple ingredients in easy combinations. You can’t really go far wrong with a brie, rocket and chutney sandwich with a salad and chips, and they didn’t. A good choice is the deli board: £2.50 for bread, olive oil and other niceties and an additional pound or so for things like Parma ham, salmon teriyaki and roasted aubergines.
There was some faint amusement due to the wording on the menu; the rocket was ‘wild’, the mushrooms ‘field’, and none of us knew what ‘griddled’ bacon was. Still, I wondered why Dusk was ignored by students as a place to eat during the day. Perhaps because it is called Dusk
