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Wild Carrot and Bar

Wild Carrot and Bar

Dogmersfield Park Chalky LaneHampshire RG27 8TD, Hook, United Kingdom

Full • Coffee • Breakfast • Bar-lounge


"Extortionately overpriced for basic pub grub, plus poor service and no allergen menu. First of all, my wife and I regularly frequent very high end establishments. This isn’t what you would expect at this price point. The location is beautiful, the staff are well dressed and courteous, however, the decor on the wild carrot is tired and the food is 50/50… read on… On arrival we were seated at a dark table with no view, when there were plenty of nicer tables it was quite quiet . We shortly asked to move which was a waste of of our time. My wife has an egg allergy and was horrified to discover they had no allergen menu they could share with us, plus the two waiters said they had no idea about allergens so had to check with the chefs each time, which made us nervous. I’m fairness the cocktails were good. The Wild Carrot starter, which was meant to have rainbow radishes and crudités was a £0.75p £1 bag of mixed leaf salad you’d get in a supermarket with some cherry tomatoes and sliced carrot, no radish. The fish and chips had thick undercooked doughy batter and they hadn’t removed the skin on the fish. The chips were supermarket chunky McCains type frozen chips and undercooked. For £28 I expect far, far better. This was more £18 pub grub at best. My mushroom toast was excellent and the mushroom pasta was also good but the side of fries for which I didn’t ask the cost was £8 !! they were limp and flavourless, essentially KFC/McDonalds level when not fresh, small portion too. My wife left about 30 40% of her food it was so bad, I ate mine as I’m more stubborn, but in hindsight, it really wasn’t worth the money as experiences of that price point should be equal, certainly not compatible to pubs and takeouts. The correct cutlery wasn’t laid out and our water wasn’t topped up once. To make matters worse, they added 15% to the bill but didn’t bring the itemised bill, just put the total on the card machine and brought that, at this point we just paid up and made for the exit. A totally embarrassing set up with incompetent staff and horrendous poor quality produce and cooking. Felt like daylight robbery and ruined our day. Read the other reviews, there’s a running theme for being overpriced and disappointing here and it’s letting what looks to be a very nice hotel down. Everything needs changing here except the cocktails and the mushroom toast starter. Also, other reviews are correct, wild kids everywhere, no wild carrots in sight. AVOID."

Harrods Social By Jason Atherton

Harrods Social By Jason Atherton

87-135 Brompton RoadKnightsbridge, London, United Kingdom

Full • Wine • Soup • British


"I would never normally leave a poor review, if I haven't enjoyed somewhere I just wouldn't return. However, due to the price of this particular meal I felt I had to leave some comments. Firstly, the menu wasn't what I had booked (3 courses and Prosecco for £45) there was a choice of the Festive menu at £55 for 3 courses or the al a carte. The setting itself was a bit disappointing. I appreciate it was in Harrods, but I expected it to be a bit more exclusive, for want of a better word. We were sat in a nice booth, but it was next to the walkway between the wine shop and the restaurant. It was also pretty hard to find in the maze that is Harrods. The staff were lovely and actually did give us a complimentary glass of Prosecco when I questioned the change in the menu. The low service score is due to the length of time we waited for our starters to arrive. I had booked the table for 5.30pm as we had a train to catch at 8.30pm, but as you only get a 2-hour timeslot anyway I thought this would be ample time. We did get there a bit late (as I said it was hard to find) but had ordered by 6.00pm. Our starters arrived about 6.50pm! The staff approached us twice to apologise for the delay and refilled our Prosecco glass, but by the time it came, and we had eaten it, it was past 7.00pm so we had to have our main and pudding in quick succession after the starter. We had also ordered a bottle of wine and I had to ask the server to put the lid back on the bottle so we could take it with us. I've no idea why it took so long to arrive as it wasn't really that full and all we had ordered was the soup and a cold salmon starter. The food was okay (a little bit cold if truth be told) but didn't reflect the price. The bill was £166 for 2 including service. I could have knocked off the service charge, but we were rushing to get away to catch the train, and as I said the staff were lovely. Overall, really disappointing."

New Street Wine

New Street Wine

16 New Street, London, EC2M4TR, EC2M 4TR, United Kingdom

Fish • Meat • Steak • Seafood


"The restaurant was empty (only 2 other tables besides us all lunchtime) however, they still managed to get our main course order wrong! Firstly 1 of our party requested potato gratin only to be told and I quote it sold out yesterday suggesting you buy-in and there hasn 't been a delivery, this raises a question about the ability of the kitchen staff to cook rather than just bung in a microwave!! Starters were fine, lovely in fact. Then 3 of our party of 6, ordered rump steak, 1 of each rare, med-rare and medium! 2 came and were ok, however the 3rd (the rare steak) was obviously overdone (I would say med/ well down) when my friend called over the manager, he confronted her, asked if she 'd cut through the middle, and even got out his phone torch for a better look, should he not have just accepted her opinion and taken it back!!? It was eventually taken away and a new one promised. He was pretty rude and upset my friend quite substantially, then she had another altercation with him a little later when he squared up to her and they had an outright argument in the bar! After this, she was too upset and shaken to eat the second steak! We never saw him again, and although the waiter and bar manager were lovely and did their best to make amends, it spoilt our lunch, leaving an atmosphere. We then still paid over £120 each, which is quite an amount even with the desserts and digestives taken off the bill! What made matters worse was that the place was empty, so the chef wasn 't even rushed! It 's really sad to see what was a lovely restaurant go so far down hill, another victim of the D&D curse, won 't be going back!!"

New Street Grill

New Street Grill

16a New Street London, EC2M 4TR, EC2M 4RH, United Kingdom

Fish • Steak • Grill • British


"I've never had an insulting restaurant experience in my life. after a beautiful meal, with the exception that our medium-sized steak was burned to a crack, the restaurant had a problem with its card machine. after inserting my card it immediately said that the pencil has exceeded without the possibility to insert a pencil. After I tried three times, I asked if we could go to the next room to solve the machine problem from the table (which tried to finish her wein.) the first words the manager said while I looked seriously, did I have to call the police? I was absolutely shocked, insulted and understandably angry when I was a business owner and tried to take my employees for a nice meal. you have to pretend to smoke the place, or try not to pay while your card machine was the problem, is absolutely beyond the friend. I asked a manager and he said he was the manager! after additional argument where I had to demand that he retrieve the amount on the machine (I had to ask repeatedly) Apple pay worked well. I should also note that earlier in the evening a man at another table had the exact same issue and we heard him say he had no time to speak with a manager and wanted to pay only his bill with his card. I will not be back, and this restaurant must seriously consider training its employees in the elite. when they say they call the police on a customer when the card machine is not working crazy."

The Nook Eating House

The Nook Eating House

Hook Lane, Hook I-SO31 9HH, United Kingdom

Vegan • Cakes • British • Vegetarian


"from beginning to end, it is a taste experience. we had luck getting a table in this little restaurant on a busy Friday night. we were offered drinks as we looked through the menu. there was approx. 5 6 starters and as many main courses to choose from. on a Friday and Saturday night, I think they only offer the a la carte menu. the midweek also offer a set menu. my man decided to have a swirling pleasure with a gruyere cheese epuff, which was divine and served from a glass tea pot. I had the cured salmon and scallops. both appetizers were divine, beautifully presented and memorable. we would certainly order again. for our main course decided two of our party, the Southdown lamb (educated and I have the dover soles with inherited and minze pure and large chips. (not sure why I didn't make a picture of my eating, but I think I was actually distracted and started eating before I remembered the picture! the dover sole was a fabulous twist on fish and chips. total divine and the most memorable part was the draught pure and the juicy fish share! the southdown lamb was a great hit. not only was it beautifully presented, it was also a very large part. 2 lammsteaks were placed on the dauphinoise kartoffels, together with a partly slowly boiled lamb. we could not resist the baked honeycomb and went alaska and decided to share this court. every bite was amazing. the service was friendly and efficient without being overlaid. eating is brilliant. certainly worth a visit!"

Restaurant GLASS

Restaurant GLASS

Uhlandstr. 195 10623 Berlin, London, United Kingdom

Pizza • Global • Italian • International


"the service was accommodating and always had an eye on whether our water glasses need to be refilled. before we started with the actual 5-course menu, there was a delicious greeting from the kitchen of the definitiw hunger on more. with the menu we started with cauliflower/Couscous/Mandel/Weintrauben Onion soup/Knafeh/Topinambur/Haselnüsse both was tastefully and visually super served, with a respective declaration from the service staff what we find on our tellers. the combination of the above mentioned ingredients was perfect with a wobble soup for my well-known and a grazing lamb/aubergine/artichoke/Tahina. little manko, however, was that the lamb was a bit too salty. as the next course there was the duck/feige/Hafer/Sellerie/Kaffee chocolate the duck was perfectly cooked. so delicate that it is already melted on the bottom. the supplements were tastefully well matched to the duck. while the coffee chocolate was in a combination with the sauce and was therefore an ideal companion to the desiccated, a small manko could be seen in the duck. here as well as the subsequent lamb, unfortunately, the plates were somewhat warmer than handwarm, which unfortunately took the necessary temperature for the food. next came the lamb/chicken/red beet/drumb also here the meat was perfectly cooked. the inlays were all matched to the lamb, and with their slightly acidic taste brought the meat to the ground. the appropriate sauce was perfumed with rose. as desert there were yogurt/pistazie/salt lemon/sumac manjari/creuz cumin/black sesame/banana both dessert were tastefully simply brilliant. alone the salt lemon and the black sesame banana egg were a real bringer at their respective desserts. all in all I have long been eating so well, and recommend the glass to friends and family more"