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Heddon Street Kitchen

Heddon Street Kitchen

3-9 Heddon St, Mayfair W1B 4BE, W1B 4BS, London, United Kingdom

Meat • Cheese • Cocktail • Modern Cuisine


"The problem with having an eponymous restaurant Mr. Ramsey is that when your staff mistreats its customers, it reflects poorly on you. The horrible service would have been comical had we not been celebrating a birthday and career accomplishment. The waiter rudely chastised us for not listening when he asked who wanted sparkling water and who wanted still, seemingly having complete amnesia from our order just 5 mins earlier. When we casually shuffled the waters to the right person, he offered, unsolicited, it is not my fault you received the wrong waters, you weren 't listening. Our jaws hit the table. Later, we attempted to smooth over Watergate by explaining that we could not hear him in the loud restaurant (he seemed to only mouth his words instead of vocalize them). He responded you can 't expect me to raise my voice. Why yes, that 's exactly what we expected. We ordered burgers (two medium rare and one medium well) and fish and chips. After we said medium rare, he seemed to mouth the words medium well but we couldn 't actually hear him, he was still mouthing words and our lip reading skills were not up to task. Oddly, our food arrived less than a minute after we placed our order and when we inquired of the food runner which were medium rare, he responded, with condescension that they were all medium well and the restaurant was not licensed to serve meat any other way. What a surprise. The bottoms of the buns were complet lt soggy, indicating that they had been prepared long before we ordered them. Had it just been bad food, we might not have sworn off future visits to your restaurants. However, the fact that the staff felt unapologetically entitled to berate us is something that we can 't get past. That behavior comes from the top. Badly done Mr. Ramsey. Badly done indeed."

Sussex Bar Restaurant

Sussex Bar Restaurant

63-64 Frith Street, London I-W1D 3JW, United Kingdom

Drinks • British • Seafood • European


"Conclusion don 't go if you 're hungry! Sussex is nice, but at these prices you 're better off heading to one of London 's Michelin starred restaurants. There 's the nearby Sabor, or BRAT and Lyle 's in Shoreditch. All 3 feel reasonably priced by comparison. Don 't get me wrong, the environment is lovely, the staff are perfectly pleasant, and most of the flavours were nice. The gnocchi in particular stood out! That said, the positive sentiment in the other reviews makes me begin to question the relative credibility of google maps ratings. Or perhaps it 's simply that many of us Londoners have far too much spare change lying around and no longer understand the concept of good value for money. This is Michelin star pricing without the Michelin star food or service that 's not to berate the staff as I mentioned above, they were perfectly nice). We were in a rush so opted to share some oysters, a couple of starters and a main. I specifically asked about the size of the starters and was told they were not as small as Tapas portions . Imagine my surprise when the monkfish carpaccio arrived. £12 for 9 slithers of fish each roughly the size of an average basil leaf. It would be one thing if the flavours had blown my socks off, but they were actually a bit underwhelming. The gnocchi £9.50) was good, perhaps even great, but equally disappointing in size probably 9 12 pieces). It 's the kind of portions you 'd expect from a 10 course tasting menu. I think Sussex could do a better job of setting expectations in that department. The main venison ragu) was a more reasonable in size and had lovely flavours, but at £24 it 's almost 2x the price of the similar 8 hours beef shin ragu at Padella a London pasta establishment). Not necessarily an apples with apples comparison I know, but these are the kind of comparisons you end up making when the price is greater, but the quality and flavour is seemingly not."