Noreen's Reviews

We eat in the Union Cafe often and so we find the service excellent as the staff have got to know us. I agree about the acoustics, it can be a bit noisy at times. In fact they have recently put cushions on the chairs and the sound is a little better. It's great to be able to see into the kitchen – which is incredibly calm even when the restaurant is full.

The food is excellent, with some wonderful standbys… a great burger, fantastic sausage and mash, but they also have a constantly changing menu which means there is always something to take your fancy. If you do go and they have the Calamari with chilli dip do try it, it is the best, the calamari is very thinly cut and the batter is as light as a feather.

Their wine list is well put together and excellent value for the centre of London.

They have recently been opening for Sunday Brunch which is definitely well worth a try, although they close at 4pm. Also I really do recommend you book as the Sunday Brunch has been really busy the past couple of times we visited. Great Bloody Marys!

Gosh – I think the previous review on this restaurant is a little unfair! It's fine not to like a restaurant but I don't think the reviewers criticisms are very constructive…

Anyway, we went for the first time yesterday, we hadn't even heard of the restaurant and just stumbled on it on the Square Meal website.

The decor, the uniforms are all well described by other reviewers I just want to get on to the food!!!

Traditional Sunday roast. How many have you had in the UK that are just awful? In some ways I think it is a very difficult meal for a restaurant to get right. Even if it is cooked well, we all have our quirky ways we like it to be served. I hate to have the food piled on a plate, covered in gravy and a huge Yorkshire pudding on the top. I would rather have two smaller servings – but you can't really ask for that in a restaurant can you? Well yes in BBR you can!

After a plate of beautiful Forman's smoked salmon (the best in the world in my opinion) we both ordered the roast of the day which was beef yesterday but I think it changes. The food is served in what looks like a medium sized frying pan, arranged on it is your beef (cooked how YOU like), caramelised carrots and parsnips, cabbage greens, a yorkshire pudding (huge), roast potatoes, and on the side a dish of horseradish sauce and a jug of gravy. So you can arrange what you want on your plate and then tuck in.

I had asked for my beef to be cut extra thin – which it was, we both have beef cooked differently – which it was, the roast potatoes were absolutely perfect, hot and fluffy on the inside and light and crispy on the outside, all browned beautifully – none of your anaemic roasties here! The Angus beef was so tender you could cut through it with the side of your fork.

We both thoroughly enjoyed our lunch, the service was unhurried which is exactly what we wanted at 2pm on a lazy Sunday afternoon. We took our time and savoured every mouthful, and surprisingly managed to polish every morsel off, along with… More

We go the The Goring Restaurant twice a year. Once in the summer for Sunday lunch and once for dinner just before Christmas. Although we tend to veer towards casual restaurants because we only go on the two occasions it retains its ‘special occasion’ for us.

Their Sunday roast is just the best, beef brought to the table on a trolley and carved for you, perfect roast potatoes, vegetable and gravy. Always a great choice of British Puddings if you have any room left.

The hotel is all decorated at Christmas and the blue twinkling Swarkovski lights in the dining room are at their best at this tinme of year. Favourites of ours to eat are Scottish lobster omelette, and Eggs Drumkilbo. For mains there is always a wide choice of variouse filleted fish as well as chicken or if you are really hungry steak and kidney pie.

Whatever you do and whatever you eat you absolutely must get as far as the cheeseboard, well actually its not really a board, it's a huge trolley of probably about 50 British cheeses. We have two cheese lovers in the family and it is always the higlight of dinner!