The location looks great, and when we walked in it looked like it might be a nice place. The first sign that things might be a bit wrong was when we were pointed to our table across the other side of the room by one of the serving staff who remained behind the bar.

Now let me say that in my past I was a hardened gamer. We used to run Doom, Quake and Tom Clancy game competitions all the time, and I was a more than healthier winner of most. I played the consoles at home, and games on the PC, and played a lot online too.

Nowadays other priorities have come forward. There's life in general, and then there's the place that sucks all my spare time, Filmstalker.

So I'm amazed that I've finished the game in under five days without huge sessions in front of the console. In fact I'm disappointed.

One concern I did have though was that the trailers showed a lot of running about in the light and shooting at people, was the sneaking element gone in favour of a first person shooter in places? Time would tell.

When we visited we hadn't made a reservation and were greeted warmly. They were busy but there would be a table in half an hour. So we disappeared for a few drinks and came back to a readied table.

Despite all that the wine is lovely. It has a velvety texture and I defintely caught the black fruit taste, which was actually blackcurrant. My girlfriend caught the red fruit, which was actually raspberry. Then there's a little bit of spice which made this wine a lovely choice. Very pleasant and quite reasonable from M&S.

Monteguelfo Chianti 2004 was one such new bottle we tried, and we were sorely disappointed. The wine had no real flavour to it, there were nice tannins which weren't too overpowering and a smokey, oakey taste, and that was about it. In my limited knowledge of wine I had assumed Chainti's were tastier, not so here however.