I happen to think Food is very good...Can't please everyone I suppose.
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Most overrated restaurant you've eaten in?
- Thread starter Lenny Rider
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I happen to think Food is very good...Can't please everyone I suppose.
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
The Ivy is an insult to food lovers. Add The Wolseley to that.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Agree entirely with Cafe Rouge. Below average food and rude staff. The staff were completely non-plussed when I complained about the massive thumb-mark in my pain au chocolat.
Can I add Meat & Liquor in London Road? Pretentious hipster place with disinterested staff, average food served on what look like plastic McDonald's trays and bleak decor.
Can I add Meat & Liquor in London Road? Pretentious hipster place with disinterested staff, average food served on what look like plastic McDonald's trays and bleak decor.
carteater
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Nando's.
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Originunknown
BINFEST'ING
The Chilli Pickle
Butch Willykins
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The Chilli Pickle.
Wasn't terrible by any means, but I just thought it was bang average and not worthy of the hype.
Wasn't terrible by any means, but I just thought it was bang average and not worthy of the hype.
Return of the Rev
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Went to Rotana last night Preston Street,great foot decent prices and bring your own booze so good value.Lebanese style food.
Went to Rotana last night Preston Street,great foot decent prices and bring your own booze so good value.Lebanese style food.
What was the foot like? Trotters?
Can I just add decor like a ball pit park for meat & Liquor.
Wahacca Brighton was another disappointment, having eaten a really good meal in one in London.
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Not being specific, but there are too many pretentious 'heads up yer arse' restaurants , banging on about being f....ing passionate'.etc.
Additionally, so many mediocre chain restaurants, banging on with 'are you guys ready to order'?
Just piss off, the lot of them!
Additionally, so many mediocre chain restaurants, banging on with 'are you guys ready to order'?
Just piss off, the lot of them!
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,292
The Park View in Preston Park. Normally walk out earlydoors due to piss poor service and go down the road to the Crown & Anchor.
Dave the OAP
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Giggling squid in Hove. Atoms was good and service excellent, but the food was a bit naff.
Raleigh Chopper
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Not being specific, but there are too many pretentious 'heads up yer arse' restaurants , banging on about being f....ing passionate'.etc.
Additionally, so many mediocre chain restaurants, banging on with 'are you guys ready to order'?
Just piss off, the lot of them!
Good point.
You have hardly sat down and they ask you what you want to drink and I haven't even looked at what they have.
If you do place a quick drink order, when they bring it they ask for your food order.
One thing I love about more expensive 'pretentious' restaurants is quality waiter and sommelier service.
We ate at Rick Steins Seafood Restaurant last year, the food and accommodation was top notch, but the service was the best I have had in any restaurant anywhere.
Machiavelli
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Gordon Ramsay's gaff in Chelsea. Got three stars, there was nothing wrong with it, but you're expecting more than competence. There was nothing to excite.
Machiavelli
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Not being specific, but there are too many pretentious 'heads up yer arse' restaurants , banging on about being f....ing passionate'.etc.
Additionally, so many mediocre chain restaurants, banging on with 'are you guys ready to order'?
Just piss off, the lot of them!
I can't stand being called 'guys'
McTavish
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- Nov 5, 2014
- 1,585
The food at the Ivy is pretty much beside the point as you unfortunately found out.
Most people go to the Ivy because:
They want to see someone famous.
They are a bit famous and like non-famous people looking at them.
They are a bit famous, would like to become more famous and know that there will usually be someone with a camera outside.
They want to show how important they are by getting a table at the last minute.
They are "so bored of fancy food and just want something simple" so they drop £20.00 on a fairly average shepherd's pie.
They are actors and actually believe, unironically, that the The Ivy is the "Theatreland Local".
They go a lot and so are treated really, really well.
They are tourists.
There are also people who go there because it is one of the most famous restaurants in the world and so assume, not without reason, that it must therefore serve good food...it doesn't. The food is generally not terrible, just safe and uninspiring; the service is usually impeccable and it has quite a good interior if you like art deco clubbiness. I'm sure if I were very rich, lived nearby and didn't want to cook, I would go there rather than microwaving a Tesco ready meal but otherwise there are approximately eleventy million restaurants in London that serve more interesting food.
It's a bit like the Hard Rock Cafe for grownups - the food is largely incidental.
Agreed, with one exception. We got them to make an off-menu tarte tatin. Spectacular. Otherwise, a bit meh.
Have you tried Kitchen Table on Charlotte Street. The technical term is, I believe, banging.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
It's really, really grim, isn't it? It reminds me of the back part of the Hobgoblin in the late 90s.