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The Living Wall

The Living Wall

160 Cromwell Road London, SW7 0TL, SW5 0TH, United Kingdom

Beer • Wine • Steak • American


"Chelsea Flower Show week and we are staying just around the corner and amongst us are serious meat eaters and a gluten avoider, so Cast Iron was a selected favourite. Two of us arrive to do a recce and arrive at 8:55pm to a lovely ambiance with a relaxed atmosphere and casual dining feel, staff were friendly faced and smiley giving us a very warm welcome. We were presented with a beautiful and thoughtful menu, appealing to a variety of dietary requirements and a wide range to please everyone within an affordable price range. The wine list was varied with excellence and clearly a lot of thought had gone into selecting wines to accompany the variety of dishes available on the menu with recommendations which were a delightful extra touch. Sadly, it kind of stopped there with an abrupt halt! It took us over 10 minutes to be offered drinks, so much so we had to ask twice! We eventually ordered and to start we had Brisket in a Yorkshire and a small Caesar Salad, followed by 2 Rumps, our drinks eventually arrived and we awaited our scrummy starters… 15 minutes pass and then another 15 minutes encouraging us to enquire about the delay, and we are assured they are on the way! We wait another long 15 minutes and again query to the whereabouts of our simple starters, by this point it’s obviously the staff are feeling awkward about the slow service and seemingly ‘refuse’ to return to our table, resulting in us being seen to by a selection of staff members. We are eventually presented with an excuse that there was some confusion with our order and instead of starters followed by mains, the order has gone through as ‘everything to be sent out together’ arrangement, however, to be quite frank I wouldn’t expect to wait that long for the entire order either!! After an hour our starters have finally arrived, the brisket Yorkshire full of scrumptious slow cooked beef with the Caesar, whilst being tasty, consisting almost entirely of iceberg stalk disappointingly. Within moments of ‘finishing’ our plates are cleared and almost immediately our steaks arrive surprisingly, beautifully cooked and presented. We had 20% taken off our bill which we were grateful for but overall a very slow service for a very quiet restaurant, the staff, whilst initially being very delightful, avoided us thereafter and one starter was below average. We would have visited 2, 3 maybe 4 times during the week but obviously didn’t return."

Amani - Epsom

Amani - Epsom

215 Fir Tree Road Epsom, Surrey KT17 3LB, United Kingdom

Meat • Pizza • Indian • Barbecue


"I booked in for a Bollywood night. There was 4 of us, 2 people are meat eaters and 2 people are vegans. When I booked online as suggested by a member of staff when I called, as if they couldn 't do it over the phone (all the bookings where hand written on a piece of paper when we got there, oh and the only thing that was noted is that i paid £20 deposit but not the fact that our table required vegan based menu) in the notes section online I specifically said we will require a vegan menu. When we were seated at the table the waiter didn 't give us a drinks menu or a set food menu for us to look at. When they served food I questioned about which one was a vegan option, the staff looked very confused they didn 't know what I was talking about. Asked to speak to a manager, the waiter didn 't even bother getting the manager so I had get up to find someone only to discover that the manager was not available as he was in the kitchen busy, im sure that he was completely unaware that there is a table that required a vegan option menu. A lovely female member of staff came out from the kitchen assuring me that there is vegan based menu, trust me there wasn 't. The starter was ok, but to have 2 potato dishes, cauliflower and lentils as a main with £40 ahead and no desert, for a restaurant its pretty appalling. The menu for meat eaters was ok, really not worth £40 ahead. Now we get to the service... poor doesn 't even describe it. Chef came across as having an attitude every time he attended the table. It did not feel very welcoming or accommodating towards our needs, and it came across as a bother. After the mains We were not even asked about deserts, I had to get up and ask if there is any deserts to come, 2 of us had a desert, which was ok, too frozen couldn 't even use a spoon but for vegan option all we got As a desert is coffee black, couldn 't even have milk as had no other milks available.£80 for a standard of vegan options we had was absolutely outrageous. Most waiters didn 't really understand if you asked them a simple question, all we got is I go and get someone but that someone never came. I never write reviews because opinions do vary, but after this meal I was extremely disappointed with the restaurant atmosphere, attitude and just simply not valuing their customer. There was only one lady that worked there behind the bar that actually was helpful and pleasant."