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The Little Georgia

The Little Georgia

14 Barnsbury Road, London, N10HB, N1 0HB, United Kingdom

Georgian • European • Breakfast • Vegetarian


"I know, that the owners of this place don’t fancy any review which does not say how perfect everything is. And I know they will fight back writing nasty things. But I think if they could listen a bit they could get a point of growth from the feedback. We are regulars at their other branch – Little Georgia Islington and this is an amazing place with lovely hospitality and warm hearted people. I felt in love with the culture amazing people of Georgia share and the owners also made picture perfect and very cosy picture of this same culture on Instagram. In reality it is very different and although they have same name these restaurant are completely on the opposite ends of the spectrum. I felt ashamed, as I brought a friend from Georgia there, we had a company of 9. Food was very average. To be fair – chachapuris, knhinkali and some mezes were good, but lobio and badrijnis were blant. We specifically asked, if they do Mtsvadi my friends who have been here warned me, that it is definitely not mtsvadi on the charcoal, but some strange dish). But I asked the waiter if this was the real thing and he told all of us that this is real Mtsvadi. I have tried it and it was awful oven baked pork with mayonnaise!!!??? My Lord. This was a pure lie straight in our faces. Besides staff was arrogant, uninterested and rude. Some members of staff clearly miss proper hospitality training taking away plates from your nose and when your turn the food is gone and acting like big bosses of the place who just tolerate you. Despite the fact that on the website it says that the companies over 8 people can stay for 2.5 hours not regular 2 hours) we were unapologetically told to pay and leave, as the waiter said “there is other reservation of 8 is about to come in 10 minutes and this is their rule” so the info on the website is contradictory). 10 minutes prior to that he sold us 4th bottle of wine. No sorry, no empathy just money! I forgot something in the premises and return after we left approx 30 minutes later). The table only had 6 people, not 8. So another lie potentially. Our Gerogian friend was pretty shocked and said he is ashamed of this. Our bill was over 600, we paid over 60 in tips I regret this a lot. If they would have treated people nicely I would have not written this review. But the lie in the face clients are not stupid), mediocre food and very poor service made me want to warn others."

Kartuli

Kartuli

65 Lordship Lane, London I-, United Kingdom

Wine • Coffee • Dining • Chicken


"it is a wonderful place, with a magnificent vintage interior – a perfect environment for 7 o'clock silvester dinner. So imagine my disappointment when our booking of four by the main dining room was picked to the other guests, in the back into a zone locked in the winter garden. we were brought to our table while we sliding chairs, sidestepping babys sat on the floor and small children in dressed superheroes. the seating was uncomfortable with hard benches and the interior was made of carpets on walls and air conditioning systems. I was so disappointed that I wanted to go out there and then go out. but I was more disappointed with eating. the descriptions on the menu they have not prepared for the most appearing plates that are brought to the table. the food presentation was terrible. there was no effort to present or dress our appetizers as anything but the crooks of 'seasoned paste' on the plate. the mains were not better. both the chicken and the black mtswadi were boiled dry. the 'khinkali' their famous pleased dumplings were in the ground six pear-sized, white dumplings on a teller. the dumplings were so thick and stony that after your second feeling you could not go on. the bark in the Kharcho stew was hard and the nut sauce was exaggerated and spiced over. we were so disappointed by the starters and our network that we decided to skip only dessert, reduce our losses and leave. there is nothing fine about eating in this restaurant. if they 'fill' then the portions 't let them disappoint. but it is lacking the care, skill and presentation that they would expect from a menu with these price tags. the service was wonderful and the personal warm and friendly, but I was never so reluctant to pay my bill or leave a restaurant with so much ressentiment."

Iberia Georgian Restaurant

Iberia Georgian Restaurant

294-296 Caledonian Road London, N1 1BA, United Kingdom

Fish • Georgian • European • Vegetarian


"I booked a table for the 25th of December a few days prior. However, when we arrived at the restaurant it was closed! I was very disappointed that our plans were ruined and time wasted, and that I did not receive any information about the cancellation or changes of the restaurant's opening hours. So I emailed them to say the above, forwarding the confirmation of the booking. Someone from the restaurant (didn't introduce themselves) replied later and attached an image of a fake email that they allegedly sent the same day of the booking saying the restaurant would be closed. But you could even see that the email had not been sent it was presented as Gmail, but google doesn't display messages that way on any device (i.e. the date and email address had been crudely tacked on with a different font and format, etc, using Paint or something). The forgery was attached to a condescending and almost illiterate message attempting to gaslight me and cover up the situation. There was no need to try this on such a low stakes complaint, it was shocking and bizarre! I wouldn't mind if they'd said that they'd simply forgotten, but this was an insult. They have also offered a 50% discount but only if we came the next day which is again, seems a bit of a joke did they consider whether the customer can make it? Or just tried to add something that I won't be able to use anyway? I attached the fake email and others to the review for transparency. The restaurant didn't bother to reply to the last one anyway. This approach should be investigated by the management, unless it was they who sent the first reply! In any case, this is poor business practice and quite astonishing to see it happen in the UK. We will never go to this restaurant, even if they pay us to come."