Martin's Reviews

Its mostly been said but this is a triumph of technology over food and service, precisely the reverse of what I want when in a restaurant. My colleague and I ordered at precisely the same moment but his main course took half an hour longer to arrive than mine which rather destroyed the concept of sharing a meal. The boot faced staff – and who wouldn't be, being the human end of the all too pervasive machine – were not helpful in addressing this or doing anything very much other than serving up the bill. I won't be back.

We'd heard good reports and we were impressed by the food though the menu is a bit self consciously ‘old French’. The service was more than a bit over eager and the atoshpere – with some quaint old Kew characters on all sides – was definitely not youthful. We'd have been very happy if it was more reasonably priced too – recent repots that prices have ‘crept up’ are not wrong – its over the top for what its offering.

We really enjoyed the food and atmosphere – both first rate. A buzzy and welcome additon to the Soho scene. However, finding our pre-booked table was not actually rwady (at 12.30?), having to ask for menus and being made to wait quite a long tiem for our orders to be taken slighlty detracted from the experience. For this sort of money – not unreasonalbe but not cheap either – we expected everything to be tip top and it wasn't quite.