Busaba Hoxton Square Reviews Summary

Category: Thai restaurant London

Address: 319 Old St, London, EC1V 9LE, United Kingdom

Phone: +442077290808

Rating: 4.1
based on 250 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Tasty, healthy food that you'll keep coming back to."
  • "The food is fresh and absolutely delicious."
  • "The food is good in Busaba. The spring rolls, in particular, are yum."
  • "Their pad Thai is simply delicious. Smoky, spicy and tangy."
  • "The food here is very good and has a lot of flavour."
  • "Delicious thai food, generous portions, nice presentation, amazing cocktails."
  • "The food was delicious."

Cons:

  • "The food lacks the defining flavours that launched the chain."
  • "Quality of food - taste was bland, cocktails were watered down."
  • "Children's chicken sweet & sour dish was more like spicy chicken pasta sauce."
  • "Worst Thai green curry I have ever had."
  • "The beef was very chewy."
  • "Spring rolls were cold, soggy and oily."
  • "The food was disappointing. The chicken Pad Thai was a plate of colourless mush, the chilli prawn rice, similar."

Service

Pros:

  • "Service is really fast but friendly - so “fast” food with quality (rather than saturated fat!)."
  • "Thank you Said for looking after us so well and for your spectacular cocktails."
  • "Staff are very friendly and helpful."
  • "Good service - Anthony, the guy who served us, was eager to help and taught us how to use the restaurant's app which gave us a £5 discount."
  • "Our service was quick - we had ordered both starters and mains and had out glasses filled with the good stuff within 5 minutes."
  • "Quality and speed of service was great."
  • "The staff are always really friendly and efficient too."

Cons:

  • "There was a bit too much noise last time I was there and the waiter didn't know what wine he was serving me."
  • "It was fully packed and the staff was not enough to serve everyone."
  • "Sometimes you feel as if you were interrupting something as regularly staff will go past and ignore you."
  • "Great food, but really bad service. After asking the waiter to take our orders 5 times, the manager came over."
  • "Wouldn’t give more than one star. A waitress in there trying to deceive costumer."
  • "Horrible customer service. Staff members were absolutely appalling."
  • "Very bad service experience. And it's a shame because the food was pretty good as was the location."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "Went here for my birthday with a large group. Great ambience and large, square tables, which is a great seating arrangement for groups."
  • "The ambience and interior decoration is quite cosy and nice."
  • "The environment is stunning, not too noisy but had a nice bustle."
  • "Very chic and classy atmosphere."
  • "Enjoyable atmosphere and comfortable interior - you share tables with other parties."
  • "The place is nice and chill! We went for a team lunch. The seats are wide and tables are quite spacious which is nice as ofter there is never enough space where to put food."
  • "The establishment manages to capture the essence of Thai culture, creating a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "The tables are quite large you have to get up and lesm across if you're sharing dishes."
  • "If you have a large party the tables are quite big to all sit around and it is hard to hear those from the other side!"
  • "They have the same group seating aesthetic everywhere and a very strong scent in the restaurant that I really didn’t care for it."
  • "When it gets full, the place can get very warm, they have ceiling fans, but they don't provide too much air."
  • "I didn't really like having to share a table with complete strangers."
  • "It's turned into a cafeteria atmosphere with terrible service and mediocre food."
  • "The duck curry was cloyingly sweet - I had the taste of sugar coating my mouth an hour later."

Value

Pros:

  • "Considering the price of the items, it is definitely well worth visiting."
  • "Talk about great value. I am already looking forward to going back!"
  • "You definitely get value for your money however as the portion sizes are decent and the quality of the food is high."
  • "Their £9.95 lunch offer seems reasonable."
  • "Prices are very reasonable for the quality of the venue and how famous the place is."
  • "It’s all very reasonably priced, and very filling!"
  • "One of my fav places in London. High quality food and great atmosphere for a reasonable price."

Cons:

  • "Insanely expensive and tiny. I took it out of the bag and laughed."
  • "Slightly expensive but this is Shoreditch."
  • "However recently the portions started quickly shrink despite prices going up to the point it is almost rip off with some of the dishes."
  • "Terribly overpriced for the quality and portion sizes."
  • "Because the portions were small, the meal was very expensive."
  • "For me, this place is overpriced considering how little sauce comes as standard and how much waiter-chasing you have to do."
  • "Had a pad thai, good taste but honestly too little portion... especially for the price."

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