Tabouleh Tabouleh

A refreshing salad with parsley, mint, tomatoes, lemon juice, and bulgur.

Room 43

Room 43

43 Lavender Hill, London, United Kingdom

Meat • Seafood • Chicken • Cocktail


"We came to Room43 after reading lots of positive reviews, and found the food descriptions particularly appealing. Our first impression was positive, as it felt quite cosy inside, and one particular waiter was very energetic. This waiter made us some cocktails which were delicious. That said, things went downhill from there. It took quite a while before the other waiter decided to take our food order. We ordered eight dishes between the two of us, as these are small plates. Eight was slightly too many I'd suggest 3 dishes per person should be enough. Our main issue was the flavours of the dishes, which were severely lacking. The salmon and the chicken had seemingly no herbs or spices on them as they tasted like plain baked salmon and chicken. The okra and lamb stews, and the smoked aubergine starter all tasted like tinned tomatoes and nothing else. The calamari was decently crispy but, again, lacked flavour and the pieces of actual seafood were quite small in comparison to the amount of batter. The lentil and mango salad had too many lentils and too little else once the mango was gone, we were eating plain lentils with no dressing or flavour. Finally, we are pretty sure the vine leaves are in fact the Asda vine leaves, which taste fine, but the mark up was quite substantial. Overall, we were expecting a flavour explosion based on the menu descriptions, but we in fact just had a disappointingly bland meal. My boyfriend also thought the music was a touch too loud for a dinnertime slot maybe a post dinner performance, from say 9pm, would be more appropriate, or a pre dinner cocktail performance from 5 7pm. In any case, don't have loud music on when people are trying to converse over dinner. We also found it a little odd to have a jazz band there as the ambiance and decor in the restaurant do not feel suited to a jazz band it's not a very opulent venue."

Mezza Luna

Mezza Luna

159 City Road, Cardiff, CF243BQ, CF24 3BQ, United Kingdom

Meat • Pizza • Moroccan • Barbecue


"I have been going to Mezza Luna for years and have always raved about the food! The front of house used to be run by the lovely Anna and in those days it ran like clockwork all was perfect! Last Wed we turned up and apart from some hand gel as you walked in there were no Covid measures in place that we had seen in other places. No temperature checking, no screens, staff nor wearing visors etc.. 2 of our group left almost immediately as they felt so uncomfortable. The service was at best chaotic, which we did not mind so much as they had 3 new staff under a week in the job and you could see they were doing their best. We arrived at 7pm we were eating our main courses at nearly 10pm. The head waitress through a wobbly and started swearing and abusing customers and through her tray across the restaurant in front of the whole restaurant and young children.. at the end of the meal I spoke to the owner politely and said the food was wonderful as usual however I felt concerned about the lack of safety measures and ft the outburst from his staff member was unacceptable. I was surprised that he tried to defend her behaviour And then the staff member who was walking passed and overheard had another wobbly telling me she had worked there for 7 years was stressed and was on minimum wage.. and then shouted at me to **** off twice, to which the owner did not say a word. We will it be returning sadly inside the restaurant! Bring back Anna that might be the only thing that can save that restaurant!"