Cornish Hake
Chez Bruce

Chez Bruce

2 Bellevue Road London, SW17 7EG, United Kingdom

Beer • French • Cheese • European


"only at chez bruce ate, because our original choice to the jubilee dinner (thames river cruise) was cancelled at short notice after we had already booked our hotel: in wandsworth. instead of canceling the whole trip to london, I decided to try cb and see if they could fit us as they were only about 30 minutes away from our hotel. it was a Tuesday night when we were able to get in. I have bruce poole cookbook so was very excited to taste the restaurant and eating was really good. very similar to la trumpet in chiswick and I think they share. my starter of enoki mushroom salad with romaine, rump and comte was enormous. my cousin also thought her makrelenrillettes were first class. we have rejoined our head; I choose the hain that was outstanding again. my cousin complained that her pork was too much meat and not enough of something else. she was again on board with the dessert of white chocolate jerk and rusty ice cream. I had the cheeseboard that was good, but I had better. good wine list, with a little decent half bottle. However, the bottle was ordered by pomerol i was not available, but the sommelier hit an alternative, cheaper bottle that was very good. brot was very nice. service was okay, not great. there were some stretch before us to pour wein, to take plates that were both my cousin and I annoyed. but this little grip aside, I thought £200 without wein was pretty good."

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."

Old Butchers

Old Butchers

7 Park St, Stow-on-the-Wold GL54 1AQ, GL54 1BU, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Steak • British • Terrace • Classica


"Me and my boyfriend went for our 5th year anniversary meal. They messed our booking up as we had to cancel our first booking but they were under different email addresses and we were told they had sorted it. We arrived to a woman who eventually gave us a table after we had tried to explain they had cancelled the wrong booking even though I had emailed from a different email address and they had confirmed the previous one has been cancelled the day before we made the second booking, she still told us it wasn’t the restaurant fault and we weren’t bothered as accidents happen… The food was average at best, nothing special what so ever, I got the fish and chips and the fish was extremely greasy and I found some black plastic in my fish, however I did not complain as I have good manners and didn’t want to cause an issue as we were there for a celebration. My boyfriend has allergies and could not eat coleslaw so we asked for it to be removed…his burger arrived with coleslaw inside!!! Luckily I had realised and warned him before something serious happened and we asked for a replacement which took 15 minutes! I had almost finished my meal by that point. I ordered a sticky toffee pudding and it was completely dry inside, I was struggling to get my spoon through it and we did not finish it. The cocktail and beer was average and overpriced. Paid for a coke, came in a small glass with more ice than anything and wasn’t even half a can. The most strange thing was that when we asked for the service charge of £8 to be removed…a very old woman with short hair and large glasses and clearly a temper issue came over and spoke to us horribly and questioned why we had asked for it to be removed. I told her the fish I got was very greasy and the cake was very dry, she did not like my honest reply and started to raise her voice which was very unprofessional, I was so shocked with her tone of voice and then she of all people asked us to leave when we refused to pay the service charge and I told her it was discretionary as it said on the menu. Disgusting treatment from what I’m assuming is the manager and I’ve seen other reviews now that have complained about the same woman. Honestly so disappointing as we went for a celebration and someone had to ruin a nice day for us, hope she gets some help with herself or finds a job more suited to her hopefully away from members of the public. Any further questions please email."