Went to M & C Maidstone. For a mid-week evening the restaurant was busy but we were warmly welcomed and shown to our table promptly. Our drinks order was also taken quickly. Generally the food was excellent as was the service. The only disappointment was that having ordered 7 items from the menu (3 starters and 4 main courses) 2 of them (one starter and one steak main course) were not available. I'm note sure whether that was just because those items had been popular with other customers or whether there had been a failure to ensure sufficient quantities of those particular items were available. Whichever is the case, it did slightly take the gloss off of what was otherwise a very enjoyable evening. Nice touch by our waiter too - he had seen my son opening a present and assumed (correctly) it was his birthday. His dessert came out with a candle on it (slightly embarrassing for a 21 year old but much appreciated by the rest of us) and a decorative "Happy Birthday" message in chocolate sauce on the place.