Rakkas Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant London

Address: 369 Green Lanes, Finsbury Park, London, N4 1DY, United Kingdom

Phone: +442088099899

Rating: 3.9
based on 265 reviews.

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

  • "This lounge has been completely transformed from top to bottom."
  • "Very modern and fancy."
  • "Fantastic decor - one of the best looking lounges to date it was clean, airy and spacious."
  • "Decoration and ambiance is lovely the staff are super attentive."
  • "The atmosphere was what was most unappetising."
  • "Ambience and music was amazing."
  • "The decoration and ambience is also very pleasant."

Cons:

  • "It looks great, but the food wasn't anything special."
  • "The place was so aesthetically pleasing, inside the main eating area and also the lounge."
  • "Lounge as mentioned before completely different you can tell they went all out and is defo quite bougie."
  • "A tacky, pretentious and lacklustre establishment."
  • "The main restaurant was very loud there was a few large groups celebrating birthdays."
  • "Right where to start.. amazing place for a birthday or a fancy night out."
  • "Thank you for a lovely evening just wished you stayed open later because we were having a great time :)"

Service

Pros:

  • "The staff were really friendly and very attentive, when it came to the service."
  • "The servixe here was very good especially Ishmael."
  • "Service/staff excellent. Especially our waiter Hussein."
  • "Service was Fantastic, very quick, waiters coming regularly asking if everything was ok."
  • "Service has been outstanding."
  • "The service was lovely, staff were very professional and friendly."
  • "Our service was very good by Collin, he was attentive, always brought everything quickly and provided exceptional customer service."

Cons:

  • "The service was Terrible, staff were rude."
  • "The service was poor, I asked the woman for no cheese in my burger and she asked if I wanted it plain and I said yes."
  • "Staff very disorganised and not on the ball not once did they come and check to ask if all was ok with the food etc."
  • "The service was the worst I’ve ever experienced in my life!"
  • "Service is poor. Pressured to give the table back after 2 hr but the waiters are inefficient so you end up not having enough time."
  • "The waiter seemed lost and inexperienced."
  • "The waiter was not friendly and worse was the lack of customer service."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Food was another level, fresh and very high quality."
  • "The food was great and the ambience of the environment was to perfection."
  • "The food was all good too and their mac & cheese is the best."
  • "The food was delicious."
  • "The food was well seasoned and tasty."
  • "The food is delicious and definitely worth the price."
  • "The food was great and the ambience of the environment was to perfection."

Cons:

  • "Cocktails overpriced and rather bland."
  • "Pasta had no taste, rice was disgusting, calamari taste burnt, starter prawns were dripping it oil."
  • "The food however is absolutely terrible, I ordered pasta with lobster & prawns you get one prawn and a 2 cm lobster with black pasta that’s glued together."
  • "The food was very bland and the lady at the front was very very rude."
  • "The food was let down, my wife ordered steak πŸ₯© which was served little raw you could see the blood dripping out."
  • "The food was totally bland."
  • "The food was tasteless and bland even the rice we got had to be changed as it was clumped up together, serving us day old rice!!"

Entertainment

Pros:

  • "The entertainment was also a great bonus."
  • "Entertainment was pretty interesting. unfortunately we had to leave as there is a two hour policy."
  • "Great entertainment whilst you are eating."
  • "The live entrainment was 10/10 with the fire lady and the saxophone."
  • "Entertainment was great with dancers and fire dancers coming out."
  • "Great entertainment whilst you are eating."
  • "The entertainment is mad."

Cons:

  • "Fire eater tried her best but other entertainment advertised on website was nowhere to be seen."
  • "There was no entertainment at all as the website looks much different then in person."
  • "Please do not let this fool you, the entertainment is once every hour and is done for 3/4 minutes when the song finishes playing."
  • "The entertainment isn't anything special in comparison to some of the restaurant's competitors like no 5."
  • "We saw some food flies in restaurant which we mention to staff and on that we got a reply yeah it keeps coming."
  • "Also people are allowed to smoke cigarettes in there which isn’t that nice considering you’re trying to eat your food and smelling second hand smoke."
  • "They also have a fire dancer (a hotty) and a magician to entertain you while there."

Value

Pros:

  • "Although on the bougie side I’m glad prices were decent premiums at Β£28 including chaos tobacco flavours."
  • "The cocktails are great, bit pricey on straight singles and doubles but most places in London now are."
  • "Their pricing is not any more expensive than any fancy place."
  • "The food is always delicious."
  • "The food is delicious and definitely worth the price."
  • "The best palace n Haringey Green Lanes from the staff workers and owners."
  • "Good food, good shisha and great customer service."

Cons:

  • "I think the foods are a bit over priced for what it was and the location it is in."
  • "They then had the cheek to charge Β£100 service charge!"
  • "However, food wasn't amazing considering the price."
  • "Over-rated food, no flavour, oily vegetables, and fatty lamb shanks that had too much tasteless sauce."
  • "Cocktails are overpriced with cocktails Β£10 a pop."
  • "It is overpriced, so my advice food needs to be nice and succulent."
  • "They charged me 6 pounds for the coffee, which is a straightforward theft."

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