Chargrilled Vegetables
Lowndes Bar Kitchen Jumeirah Lowndes

Lowndes Bar Kitchen Jumeirah Lowndes

21 Lowndes Street Jumeirah Lowndes HotelSW1X 9ES, SW1X 9EY, London, United Kingdom

Steak • British • European • Vegetarian


"My wife and I had dinner here using a Groupon voucher £49 for three courses each and a glass of either Prosecco or Aperol Spritz). It was a set menu but still plenty to choose from. Some higher-end dishes attracted a surcharge but this wasn’t excessive. The restaurant itself is pleasant enough. Standard hotel restaurant decor. The staff were extremely welcoming and provided excellent service. The food wasn’t much to write home about though sadly. Lovely hot bread was served with our Prosecco which was in a beautiful glass it must be said). Starters were the best course. I had salt and pepper squid with a chilli jam which was very good and my wife had cauliflower and keens cheddar soup which was served with a big cheesy croutons which she loved. I opted to pay a surcharge for the rib eye steak for main course which I asked for rare. Now I expect rare to be hot and seared on the outside whilst still **** in the middle. What I got was a just about lukewarm grey piece of meat which, the fat of which had not been rendered so was still like jelly. Inside the meat was dry and on the blue side of rare. It wasn’t particularly tasty I don’t think it has been seasoned before cooking) and certainly wasn’t ****. I regularly cook steak at home and sear and seal it on a hot griddle pan so that it has a nice char but it is still juicy inside. It’s easily done. For pudding I had the lemon tart with clotted cream which was average. My wife had date pudding essentially sticky toffee pudding) which was dry but sitting on a pool of sickeningly sweet sauce. Again, average. It was an enjoyable experience in general for the money paid but not somewhere I’d return to in a hurry or pay full price for."

Cottier's Restaurant

Cottier's Restaurant

92-95 Hyndland street Glasgow, G11 5PX, United Kingdom

Pubs • Food • Beer • Steak


"We visited Cottiers on Xmas eve 2022. It was me and my friend and our two young children. We had tickets for an event downstairs afterwards and decided to have lunch first in the Attic. Upon entering, the place was beautiful and atmospheric with a very traditional Christmas vibe. However, the greeting from the server was not welcoming at all. She seemed disinterested from the off and did nothing to make the children (or us feel welcome. The menu was different to what had been advertised on the website fair enough, it 's Christmas. But, there was no vegan option on the kids menu. We had to ask what the chef could make for my friend 's son and weren 't given an option so eventually asked for a plain tomato pasta. (I mean, it 's an established west end restaurant, surely a vegan option should be par for the course? . I opted for the crispy fried gnocchi with vegan parmesan. When it came, it was not crispy, more soggy, with stalks (not heads! of tenderstem broccoli through it. Very odd. And there was no vegan parmesan to speak of, so we asked for this to be brought to the table. We felt like we were bothering the waiting staff by making simple requests for things that should have been served in the first place. A further example there was no salt or pepper on the table and nor was it offered. When we asked for these, the girl brought an empty salt mill to the table (as I noticed someone else mentioned in a previous review . This resulted in a longer wait to eat our food as we had to ask for it to be filled up (again, no apology or recognition that this was unacceptable I mean, these are basics! . Everything was so slow even though there was only one other table dining and it felt like an inconvenience for the staff to do anything for us (what they are getting paid for! . My daughter ordered a burger and OK, it 's a kid 's meal, but please don 't assume children don 't like salad or veg it was a basic burger on a plate with skinny fries. She would have gladly eaten a side salad. At the end of the meal, my friend asked for her son 's pasta to be boxed to take home (conscious of zero waste as we all should be . A couple of boxes were dumped on our table for her to do herself! I 've never known a restaurant to do this, usually staff are more than happy to box food up for you, even in casual pizzerias! The next problem came when we ordered two kids ice creams. They came with some sticky pink sauce on top which wasn 't on the menu and neither kid likes. We sent these back requesting plain ice creams as we had not asked for any sauce. This took more than 10 minutes to arrive, by which time the kids were fed up and the event downstairs was due to start, so the ice cream (which arrived without spoons!! was left untouched.. yet still charged, of course. Time to pay the bill full cost on the receipt, despite us expressing how poor the whole experience had been to the waitress. A lame, insincere oh sorry was muttered. It doesn 't end there, my friend got 20p change when it should have been 2 pounds, so even that part was wrong! Normally we would leave a generous tip, but not a chance after that disastrous dining experience, and on Christmas eve too. Highly disappointing. We felt like we were bothering the staff just by being there! Service was slow and sloppy and they didn 't even seem to care. I dread to think how they would cope at busy service times. The staff definitely need hospitality training as they are not skilled or equipped to be serving customers in what is known reputable west end establishment (if anywhere at all . We went on to complain in writing to the manager, the reply came with no justification, no apology, they simply said they welcomed our feedback. And pater to discover from the press the place is infested with mice! The whole experience actually makes me feel ill. A beautiful venue, lovely location, a real shame. Not recommended."