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Sophie's Steakhouse Chelsea

Sophie's Steakhouse Chelsea

United Kingdom, London

Steak • British • European • Steakhouse


"since over 15 years sophies steakhouse visited and since the summer it was my first time. I went past the last weeks often to visit during the tireless veganuary, so I jumped on the opportunity to have a relaxed dinner there...with a friend on a Tuesday night. the dinner itself was the usual quality ingredients simple things made very good and fair value for the location as expected. I was disappointed, however, that I was at the reception of the restaurant for approx. 5 minutes were allowed to stand (besides a board that has asked customers to wait) where I was ignored, although I was passed on several times by the employees without gruß or recognition. it seems quite unnecessary that customers (also with reservations) on this wise on a Tuesday night around 19:30 clock, if there is a bar area on the immediate left side of the at the beginning that I quite comfortable my time in, until someone around me to put around me and safe enough, a small waiting snake formed behind us through the time we finally sit, although there is a series of open tables. my words very carefully to choose, I told the waiter (the manager) when he put us that as “a courteous world of advice” when they let customers wait at the entrance, they should be more of an effort to welcome them immediately, but this seemed to be taken as a personal affront and I was accused that it was quite hysterical, “he was being back in the moment when I met him during this already negotiated exchange we were asked twice (at this point) if we wanted to proceed with our booking by the waiter who obviously had decided that he would rather leave the partially empty restaurant. Despite every attempt to go, I didn't want my friend embarrassing, who visited the restaurant more regularly from late, so we tried to make the best of an otherwise insignificant dinner. within spores of playing the sacrifice, the waiter could explain that he was very stressed, as they were particularly short workers (the experience of my friend also from a previous visit) and fair to him seemed to be that he had a large area on his own. Of course, I have addressed any sympathy, and it is a management problem that must be solved especially for that of human, but why not just with an excuse or even only a recognition of feedback received, instead of expressing themselves and making absurd accusations if it receives polite and constructive feedback? would the device rather not mention a bad customer experience and decide to simply go into reasonable feedback? to his credit, the rest of the service was professional, but it is hard to do such a basic misunderstanding of the customer service in a time when they think restaurants should do everything in their power to customers again welcome after the break-up of the last 18 months. the whole episode is pretty bad at sophies I'm sorry to say and I won't be back in a hurry."

Wolfe's Bar & Grill

Wolfe's Bar & Grill

30 Great Queen Street Covent Garden London, WC2B 5BB, WC2B 5AE, United Kingdom

Fish • Meat • Steak • British


"This place is beautifully decorated and looks fabulous. Yep, that's all I've got, oh, and the scallops were perfectly cooked.When we arrived I was looking forward to dining here. Upon opening the menu I was disappointed. There is a good range of starters but sadly, the mains lacked variety. Of dishes, are beef burgers, are steak and are fish. Ok if you like red meat but if you're vegetarian it seems you're out of luck. The scallops in my starter came done to a T' but unfortunately the big chunks of chorizo and undressed salad were not appealing. For my main I chose the dover sole filets. A delicate fish, it was way overcooked. They came heavily crumbed and deep-fried. The salad looked like it came straight out of a cooking show big pieces of tomato, cucumber sliced on an angle and again no dressing. A dry dish that not even the thick sauce' on the side could moisten. We decided against dessert and went for liqueur coffees instead. These arrived lukewarm and in a wine glass *sigh.At (incl. service) for people, courses each, liq coffees and a bottle of wine did I think it was money well spent? Not in my opinion. I wouldn't mind sitting at the bar and having a few cocktails but I would not return for the food.Just a note on the service too. Our bottle of wine stayed on the table in its bucket for the whole of our visit. We were left to top up ourselves whilst watching the staff leaning on their station most of the time with their arms folded having a catch-up and drinking hot drinks. When I go to a nice-looking place with these prices I expect at least attentive service and great food, unfortunately we didn't get either. Whilst our server was polite the skill was lacking."