Robert's Reviews

Massive fan of its larger sibling and I really wanted to like it. That location has been a graveyard for restaurants, simply because it’s the wrong side of the high street. The food is very good, but the service is a little shy and not very attentive, which in a half empty restaurant is unforgiveable. Lacks atmosphere and needs to decide what it’s about.

The best restaurant in a basement anywhere! The staff are gorgeous to look at, the loo's are difficult to find and the bar is terrific (as long as you forget what the drinks cost). The food is consistently good, with the finest sesame prawn toast you will ever experience. It’s funky, loud and lively – probably not the place to take your mother-in-law, but your teenage children will think you are cool… almost.

It’s a local for me and I think we all have a duty to support our local restaurants. I have been many times, both for eating at the bar as well as formal dining. The staff are utterly useless and often rude – I don’t appreciate being told when I arrive for a 6.30pm booking, with practically no-one in the place, that the restaurant ‘will need the table back at 8.30pm’. I am old fashioned and prefer a ‘Good evening, how nice to see you (again), how are you/was your day’. Apparently that would be asking too much. Staff appear to have been recruited on the basis of how they look, which I’m sure plays well with the young crowd that occupy the bar (drinking a lot and eating very little). The food is very good, if a little flash. The atmosphere and decor divide opinion right down the middle: if you like your restaurants understated then this isn't for you. The size and scale of the place is enormous and commercially I can't see how it all works.