Jasmine Rice
Banana Tree

Banana Tree

412-416 St. John Street, London, EC1V4NJ, United Kingdom

Asian • Curry • Chicken • Noodles


"I booked a table online for 7 people in the evening after a performance at the theatre (5 mins walk to the Lyric theatre). When booking online if the time you’d like isn’t an option to select just put it in the special request box. When we arrived we waited a few minutes to be seated and our waitress took our orders within about 8/9 minutes. They have a QR code on the table that you scan to view the menu and pay. The restaurant did have paper(physical menus) which helped so much just ask your waiter. Food was so tasty and seasoned very well. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their meal I personally recommend the Prawn Laksa, a fair amount of large prawns given too I’m rather knowledgeable about laksa anyway and this was rather authentic. The chicken dumplings are absolutely scrumptious !! The beef rendang was a little bit dry but tasty albeit. I had the chicken thai green curry as a main and I expected the sauce to be a tad thicker as I’m used to that. This was almost like a broth. Still tasty and lots of veg. Everyone’s mains were rather large/generous portions so much so that we asked for a few takeaway containers. The only reason I haven’t rated this 5 ’s is because of the cocktail I had which was a ‘Rangoon Zombie’ it’s supposed to be a strong cocktail but honestly it tasted like very sweet fruit juice, little to no alcohol at all I didn’t even finish it because it was so sickly sweet. Happy hour is also all day,everyday. It’s a very casual restaurant and quite relaxed don’t need to dress up at all and the seating is quite close, we had a bench and the bench beside almost looked as if we were all together. Overall 4 4.5 . I would visit again. Pictured: prawn laksa, Thai green curry and my cocktail £36pp service charge is optional"

Sky Lounge, Shangri-la The Shard, London

Sky Lounge, Shangri-la The Shard, London

31 St. Thomas Street, London, United Kingdom

Wine • Full • Steak • Desserts


"We booked this 3 months in advance and asked specifically for a window seat. When we arrived, we were seated at the table furthest away from any window.. near to the toilets and the function room! We could just see other customers, we were probably the only people with no view. As groups left, 4 tables near to or by the window became free. So we asked politely to order food and also to move to ANY CLOSER TABLE so we could see anything that resembled a view.. we were told everyone wants a window seat though . These 2 of the 4 were tables left empty for the duration of our booking and the worst bit, was new groups arrived and were seated in the others by the window in front of our eyes. There was obvious discrimination going on here. The only reasons we could fathom as to why they would do this and be so rude are: We were 3 females all other tables had a male in the group and/or they were being racist as one of our friends is Asian. We were so disappointed as this was meant to be a birthday treat and it was ruined by the staff and their lack of accommodation. Also we were beautifully dressed and some customers arrived in jeans and trainers like they 'd just walked in off the streets? Dress code? The Sky Lark in New York was absolutely amazing and this place needs to take a leaf out of their book. Overall would never recommend and we won 't be returning."