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Plate Restaurant

Plate Restaurant

151-157 City Road, London, United Kingdom

Fish • Coffee • Cheese • Chicken


"Came here on a quiet Sunday. While the restaurant is beautiful and service excellent, I thought the set lunch menu selection was just average. Choose from a chicken breast, hake or vegetarian gnocchi for mains. We also assumed that ordering from the set lunch was optional but it’s not, we weren’t allowed to order from the a la carte menu during lunch but our waitress was kind enough to offer checking with the Chef to make exceptions in case we wanted something else . Eventually we decided to go with the 3 course set ordered the crispy pork skin to start, which was very decent, a little salty, but still yummy. The hake I thought the citrus, capers sauce were a bit too overpowering and you couldn’t taste the fish but cooked perfectly, and ended my meal with a delightful British cheese board. My partner ordered the gnocchi which he thought was very delicious, and the too pretty to eat coffee brûlée for dessert which he inhaled as it was perfect. It was a little pricey overall £54? even with the set meal as the portions were quite small, and there were lots of add on options i.e. cheeseboard was an extra £5, and coffee after another £4, which was a little disappointing. I am still on the fence with this one. All in all I thought the food was decent, but could suggest another similar resto for a similar price with a better set menu selection.... perhaps it’s worth returning to try their ala carte menu to make a final call. In my book, it’s 3.5/5."

The Juice Garden

The Juice Garden

23 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G25AH, G2 5AH, United Kingdom

Cafés • Kebab • Sushi • Mexican


"I REALLY WANTED TO LOVE THIS PLACE! If you know me, you'll know I'm a HUGE fan of juice. I juice a lot myself and juicing was what got my husband and myself into living a plant based diet. With that said, I think I know my juices from my smoothies pretty well. Now, as someone who doesn't carry cash I was disappointed when I went in on the first day and their card machine wasn't working. I could excuse it as it was their first day. I went back last week and again the card machine still wasn't working. I was desperate for juice as I had too much to drink the night before while most turn to a full breakfast I turn to juice to cure me! Anyway, I went away to get cash and came back. Now, there are a couple of things that bothered me... First, I think it was the manager that was there he seemed a bit stressed and there wasn't anyone there, so not sure what he was stressed about but it was slightly off putting. Second, I stood there waiting to order and a girl just smiled at me, it took someone coming from the back to come over to take my order. Weird. I placed my order and I watched the other girl make my juice, I was a bit annoyed that she barely put enough kale in to get any juice out of it. Kale needs to be juiced in bunches to get enough juice. THEN THIS HAPPENED: she juiced unwashed apples WITH THE STICKERS STILL ON THEM!! Now, as I said I had a lot to drink the night before so my reaction was a bit slow and I thought perhaps I was seeing things. That's when the other girl brought a box of apples and took them out and placed them in a basket that the girl was taking apples out of to juice. I didn't say anything at the time although I really wish I did! When you're juicing you're consuming the entire fruit so when the apple is unwashed you're ingesting everything on the skin. Yes I drank the juice, yes it was good. To be honest though I think the place is more style over substance and I rather just juice at home."

Preto

Preto

117 Queensway, W2 4SJ, City of London,Westminster, United Kingdom

Wine • Full • Steak • Vegetarian


"After previous great time at Putney branch tried the Queensway branch to be very highly disappointment. Had to ask the person checking up on our table whether everything is ok to check whether the team is serving the meat as they were very lacklustre and didn’t make any attempt to service the diners. Why do one have to ask for the staff to come to the table to serve the meat? One of the servers was constantly sniffling and pulling up his nose which is definitely signs to being unwell. Don’t they do their due dilligence to ensure the health and safety of the guest as well as other staff? Ordered red wine and was given rose how could anyone get this wrong? Using the salad bar there’s constantly staff filling take away orders in the take away containers which results guests having to wait for them to finish. Ordered dessert and it never arrived after 25min of waiting for it called the person that took our order to query what’s happening. He was clueless and asked us didn’t it arrive? About 4 staff just standing around close to the entrance and who knows everyone just standing around in the kitchen area? They then offered free dessert which we declined as the experience was already soured beyond reconciliation. Not looking for freebies or handouts and just paid up leaving without dessert as to just get out of the place. Very bad experience, definitely won’t recommend and shall avoid in future."