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The Water Margin At The O2

The Water Margin At The O2

Unit 23, Greenwich, United Kingdom

Full • Wine • Steak • Chinese


"Visited with my daughter before the Celine Dion concert on 29th July. First impressions were good but things went downhill fairly quickly. We arrived about 5.30 and were seated upstairs. Despite being fairly quiet staff still seemed a bit flustered. We ordered drinks and received the wrong order, when asking for it to be changed the waitress didn't totally understand the problem but eventually returned with that we ordered. We only had soft drinks but just tasted like cheap juice. The food looked lovely, with a good selection, but sadly not as tasty as it appeared. By 6.15 it was getting quite busy and as you would expect the food that was available soon disappeared. Unfortunately they just couldn't keep up with demand at this point and took ages to replenish food, plates and cutlery. People were waiting to be served with drinks and queuing for food for an unacceptable length of time. A few were complaining but weren't getting much response. An apology goes a long way to appeasing people but it wasn't forthcoming. When they finally started to top up the food it was going quickly again so no doubt it would've ran out again all too soon. We didn't hang around to find out once we saw the dirty, wet dishes that were brought out for desserts. That was a bit off-putting so we gave up and left.Probably nice when they don't have as many people to look after but wouldn't go back to find out!"

James Street South

James Street South

21 James St South, Belfast BT2 7GA, United Kingdom

Steak • French • British • Vegetarian


"enjoyed our evening in james st it was the best culinary experience of our trip! we had been happy to see this evening as we had a few hit-N-seals in the course of our trip to belfast. we were not disappointed and had the fabulous evening. we were quickly welcomed and sitting. the place is beautiful and spacious. revitalized and environment. the bar is great and would like to come back, only for drinks at the bar sometime. we ordered cocktails immediately. an Irish gin negroni and a traditional old fashion. my neger was absolutely excellent. I think the old fashion could have been done with real sugar cubes and not sugar syrup, but it wasn't too bad. we were quick to choose our wein. we chose a beautiful juicy red, the cline, the old vine zinfandel, 2019. to begin we had the ham hock terrine with piccalilli champ bread and some scallops with boar bell. the hanging-hock court was the best ham-hock I had. the homemade piccalilli was something else. really nice crispy and sharp sharp to help cut through the hammock and the champbrot was delicious crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. the scallops and black bells were disappointing, as they lacked no salt or genuine aroma or texture between them. we still ate it and shared the rest of my hammock. we both decided to go for the co. tyrone 270g fillet steak with sides of champ and truffle parmesan chips. red wine and pfeffer sauce. they were fantastic steaks. Actually, I didn't think I would finish mine, but I did. I have met the right choice with the jus and the truffle chips. they went so well together, the dryness of the parmesan and sweet, slightly greasy of the jus. the steaks were perfectly cooked. a medium and my medium rare. fantastic aroma on the grilled outside of the steak and beautiful texture when they pierce. we both agreed that the champ was the best champ we ever cost. it was hot, soft, so well aromatized with hot butter on the top of the copper serving pot melt. it was really the most incredible champ. I was too full of dessert. but my sample ordered the sticky toffee pudding sundae. the team was friendly enough to make me an espresso martini that was both decaf and not a sugar syrup. it was brilliant. we both managed to work our way, although a surprisingly light sticky toast desserts on Sunday. the team was fantastic. very friendly and chatting to us. the bar team did not stop, I had the pleasure of standing and watching them make a great selection of drinks and cocktails. the waiting staff were also very friendly when they check in with us at comfortable places to ensure that we were in order. we felt very well looked around. the service was very good, we didn't feel any hurry, it felt like such a free time in this restaurant. when we come back to belfast, we will be back in absolute terms and we will definitely recommend others. Thank you."

Gaucho Richmond

Gaucho Richmond

The Towpath Richmond, Greater London TW10 6UJ, TW10 6UL, United Kingdom

Meat • Cafés • Steak • Drinks


"We’ve eaten here before a few times and really enjoyed it. Usually the staff are incredibly knowledgeable about both food and wine and really engage with you during the ordering process. The staff today were dismal by comparison. One woman started arguing with me when I asked to move tables because we were directly in the line of a heater and it was making me uncomfortable. We moved table (eventually) and got a different waitress who was nice enough, but clearly overstretched with the few tables she was looking after and it took a ridiculous amount of time to get anything, to the point of being annoying. The loos were absolutely disgusting which shocked me at an establishment which charges very very highly for its services. The dirty waste units are jammed up against the side of the loos and the loo seats (two out of three someone was in the third loo so I couldn’t check) were broken and slung off to one side where people have tried to sit on them without their legs touching the waste unit, to the point where the loo seat has snapped from its hinges. The loos are also bizarrely low to the ground and were not clean. The food was good but not exceptional, which it has been on previous visits. It wasn’t all bad the Maitre ‘d was his usual great self and very sweetly brought over a little Happy Birthday plate with a candle and some nice chocolates for my partner. The bill was extremely expensive bread, one main course, a mid range bottle of wine, a few sides, two ice creams and some water cost £175. I don’t mind spending a bit of money for a special meal, on occasion, but this wasn’t worth it and we will think twice before going there again. We took off the 12.5% gratuity which added nearly £20 to our bill because we didn’t think the service even remotely deserved it. In fact, our first waitress made me so angry that had it not been a special dinner for my partner, we would have left at that point. The only thing that might tempt me back is that we have had three previous good experiences, so perhaps it was just a very expensive duff night."