Address: 18 Thayer St, London, W1U 3JY, United Kingdom
Phone: +442079359393
Rating: 4.4
based on 436 reviews.
Service
Pros:
"Shagor, Venand, and Tudor made excellent recommendations and did a great job with the service!"
"Huge shout out to what has to be the best bartender I have come across...Tudor!!"
"The service was outstanding – attentive and quick without being in any way intrusive."
"Jenny, the manager at the door is a great host and always made sure our booking stayed intact."
"Our waitress was friendly, service was efficient."
"The staff is very friendly and polite; and takes good care of customers."
"Our service was also brilliant - Anele in particular was super friendly and very attentive!!"
Cons:
"Service was a bit mediocre but food is good so I'll be back again."
"The service was a bit slow."
"Although service is good and friendly, dishes are delivered at an uncomfortably fast speed."
"The service was funky as our waiter kept clearing our tasting menu dishes and asking if we wanted a dessert menu prior to having finished our tasting menu."
"The staff was rude, like if we knew everything on the menu."
"BUT the service is abysmal."
"The service could have been better as well."
Food Quality
Pros:
"All the food was delicious, only thing was the duck on rice was slightly salty, but still tasty!"
"The meals are absolutely amazing. You order a lot of little plates and share away."
"Loved every dish and each had a completely different set of flavors."
"Great food - especially enjoyed the mushroom maps tofu, the cabbage, the octopus and the broccoli."
"The food here was so delicious. We had the brunch tasting menu and it was sure a treat."
"The food was really good - crispy milk fed lamb and glazed aubergine are simply amazing."
"The food was delicious and I can highly recommend the miso carrots, Peruvian fried chicken and the yummy crispy lamb belly."
Cons:
"The duck and rice was overpriced for what you got."
"It is too expensive for the amount and quality of food you get."
"The side dishes were lacking a little."
"Only reason I give 3 stars for food is because we were bold and went for the miso cod to share (43£ for a small-ish portion) and it was easily the worst thing we ate."
"Most dishes were overly salty especially the duck with rice dish."
"The mushroom ceviche was just alright, and the mapo tofu and aubergine dishes were super salty."
"The sweet potato dish was a tad boring and should be either vamped up or removed from the menu as it adds no value."
Ambience
Pros:
"Great ambience, with the right and correct amount of lighting to get you some lovely pictures."
"The staff was lovely, the atmosphere great."
"It's a very nice and beautiful place to go with your date, your friends or family! Lovely atmosphere! Decoration is wonderful."
"The atmosphere was so vibrant and everyone around us seemed so happy there."
"The ambience is so beautiful, cozy and refreshing."
"Really nice decor, atmosphere and friendly staff."
"I like the ambiance and the decorations inside."
Cons:
"The music was too loud and our party of six couldn’t have a conversation across the table without raising our voices."
"Super loud place for the simple reason that an average tasting small plate costs 20£-30£."
"Theres no aircon here, even though the food is quite good. Makes for quite a muggy experience."
"Saturday night is also way too noisy."
"The only downside to the place was that the background music was way too loud."
"Noisy, close together tables lead to an often disrupted experience with food runners and waiters bumping past."
"Saturday night is also way too noisy. You can’t have a conversation with your friend the music is too loud."
Value
Pros:
"The tasting menu is so good and so worth it."
"We had the experience menu for 65£ as it includes drink, desserts and a few plates we already wanted to try."
"Good value, good flavours, amazing staff, and wonderful decor inside."
"Every dish was a 10/10 and honestly the whole experience was amazing."
"We got the tasting menus and it was sooo much food, amazing value!"
"When the quality of cooking and flavours is this good then it feels like you are finally getting what you pay for."
"Stella experience with an amazing sharing menu, the range of flavours was phenomenal."
Cons:
"It is too expensive for the amount and quality of food you get."
"It's small plates style so it'll tend to be quite expensive."
"Quite expensive for what we got."
"Well overpriced."
"In my opinion, very overpriced."
"Bad value for money for sure!"
"We were really unimpressed with the quality of the food and the small portions."