Delamina EAST Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food (especially recommend the cabbage, cauliflower, raw tahini, aubergine tapenade, sea bass, tuna - well everything really) is exceptional."
• "The food is all so delicious - full of colour and flavour."
• "The food is second to none. The freshness and flavours are amazing."
• "Wonderful wonderful food. Omg my mouth was exploding with the most insane flavours."
• "Each dish was bursting with unique flavours - loved the mushroom and cauliflower the most and the caramel nest among the desserts."
• "All the plates were delicious and very original."
• "The food was tasty and the portions were decent."

Cons:

• "Paid 70 pounds for two and left the restaurant even hungrier than before."
• "The plates are Instagram-worthy but there are no new and original flavours."
• "Food was ok. Great ingredients but tiny portions, expensive price tag and a bit bland."
• "The oyster mushrooms were peculiar, they're usually sliced perpendicular to the stalk to mimic scallops but these were sliced vertically and were a tad overcooked and tough."
• "Cauliflower was acidic and soggy (in one word: horrible)."
• "The shakshuka... didn’t have much flavour, the eggs were over cooked and gray."
• "Food mediocre, just vegetarian starters, overpriced, portions are super small."

Service

Pros:

• "I felt perfectly safe having a meal there, there were hand sanitizers, the staff was wearing masks and the social distancing between tables was actually observed!"
• "Service might be slow at busy hours but it hasn’t been an issue."
• "The food was wonderful and the service was excellent."
• "Service was great."
• "Our waitress forgot our wine. However when I asked she immediately apologized and got us the wine."
• "Really friendly and attentive staff, even when the place filled up later."
• "The staff and food and ambience were amazing! seriously hospitable kind and genuine!"

Cons:

• "We were shocked to see we had been charged for what we thought was a complimentary pita (£1.75!)."
• "One waitress was making jokes about another customer with the bar guys."
• "The waiter was a little too jokey, but otherwise very very enjoyable."
• "The girl serving was impolite and abrupt."
• "Our waitress was outright rude: sighing at our requests, snapping at us to speak slower and slamming down plates."
• "When we declined to pay the suggested tip amount she became confrontational and sarcastic."
• "I found one of the waiters intrusive in our conversations and slightly over confident."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Reasonably priced at £45 pp."
• "Really good value for money."
• "The price was alright (75£ for 2 with a glass of wine each and no desert)."
• "Bill for 2 including service £50 - £65 which I felt was good value for money."
• "Cost was £39 including service, so reasonably priced and well worth it."
• "Delicious food, and really good value for money."
• "The food is reasonably priced and the experience was really good."

Cons:

• "Don't order the chicken thigh for £17.50. It's literally one thinly sliced chicken thigh."
• "Dishes are way too expensive for small portions."
• "Average food, not worth the prices."
• "Food overall was not bad, however, the place is extremely overpriced."
• "Very expensive for what it was."
• "Small portions (even for the so called large plates) and very high prices."
• "WAY TOO EXPENSIVE."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Food, cocktails, wine and ambience are great."
• "The restaurant was cute and intimate."
• "on a Thursday night, it was very lively and loud."
• "Absolutely great Sunday brunch/lunch place, super friendly staff."
• "It's one of my favourite places in London to dine."
• "The place is quite small, but doesn't feel cramped, with a lively decor."
• "This is one of those places where you constantly want to come back and try more things. Amazing interior design, good atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Ordered via Deliveroo to my hotel this evening. Food was stone cold and portion size was tiny considering the amount of money I paid."
• "The tables are also set too high for the very last seating and the table tops are uneven causing your plate to wobble when you cut."
• "The space is very small and claustrophobic and there weren't any sides to order on the menu."
• "The restaurant is very small and you shouldn’t go there if you’re claustrophobic."
• "The people behind the bar were talking so loud I could barely focus on my own conversation."
• "Only withholding the fifth star because it became so busy that the noise levels from adjoining tables started to get intrusive."
• "Only thing that soured the experience a little was a loud group of about 20 people taking up most of the room next to us."