Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecote - Marylebone Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Honestly worth queuing up for. So incredible, delicious and great prices for london! Amazing service as well - our waiter Korina was absolutely amazing, attentive, helpful and extremely kind!"
• "Bustling, quick and great service."
• "Service is friendly and fast, as soon as my plate was finished they'd stacked it up again."
• "Service was great! Friendly and fast."
• "The service has always been excellent."
• "Staff serving us was great, friendly, and professional."
• "The service of the staffs were great."

Cons:

• "People who came at least 5 minutes later were served before us."
• "Once finally inside- friendly, yet brisk service, clearly trying to move you along as fast as possible."
• "The service is terrible. You get rushed to eat after waiting a long time outside in the queue."
• "The people who work here don't smile or have compassion for what they do. It's clear that they don't like working there, which is also reflected in their service and the food on their plates."
• "The staff is rude- their focus is on turning over tables as quickly as possible and don’t really care about the dining experience of their customers."
• "To busy for any kind of meaningful interaction with the staff."
• "Don’t expect outstanding service or happy staff members."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The steak and fries is great - fantastic even - but this place does give me a better understanding of what it must be like to be an Amazon package."
• "An amazing, quaint, no-frills restaurant with excellent offerings."
• "The beef is good quality, and the chips are addictive."
• "Delicious entrecôte with very delicious sauce but fries are worse than any cheap restaurant."
• "The perfectly cooked steak, accompanied by their delectable secret sauce, is consistently outstanding."
• "Really enjoyed the steak and chips here, the sauce is banging, be sure to ask for extra sauce!"
• "The steak was delicious and i got 2 servings of steak with their secret sauce."

Cons:

• "The steak is bland, the special sauce wasn’t anything special."
• "Pretty good however too expensive for the offering."
• "The fries are simply any fries you get from the supermarket and coated in oil."
• "It's not worth queuing for more than an hour to eat in rush some salad with walnuts, two small plates with lots of french fries and only four small, thin slices of meat."
• "The steak isn’t the highest quality."
• "Fries were a bit soggy for me."
• "The food is just OK definitely definitely not worth over 1 hour queue on a Tuesday."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Nice atmosphere."
• "Great food and a buzzing atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere is warm and plain. Tight, but not claustrophobic."
• "The atmosphere is outstanding. The tables are very close one to another but makes the place unique."
• "The atmosphere was pleasant."
• "The place is super nice. Paintings around and vintage feeling to it."
• "Amazing food and experience at L’Entrecote."

Cons:

• "The only issue is that they are definitely filling the restaurant beyond the original intended capacity."
• "The place is busy and very loud, makes it hard to have a normal conversation without shouting to each other."
• "Once you got inside it's so busy and noisy."
• "It is very cramped and you don't have much privacy at all."
• "Paper tablecloths and tightly packed tables don’t add too much to the ambience."
• "The restaurant was really crowded and noisy."
• "Tables are very close to each other, might be uncomfortable for people who would like more space while eating."

Value

Pros:

• "The house red is also great as well so don't feel like you need to go for a more expensive wine."
• "Was worth the wait. And it's first come first served - no bookings."
• "The closest thing to an authentic French experience."
• "Such a good deal for the price - you get salad and bread as a starter and then two rounds of steak frites for the main!"
• "Steak frites for a reasonable cost with side salad and bread."
• "Great value for money for £29 you get a starter of a really nice flavourful salad."
• "Came away very full, very satisfied and very pleased. Will definitely return, and £45 for 3 courses with a beer, I think is great value."

Cons:

• "A rushed meal, stressed waitresses and small portions make this no value for money at all."
• "Even with decreased amount of food, the establishment had the audacity to 'inform us' that we would still be paying full price."
• "Very overpriced for the actual amount of food you get."
• "If you add a dessert and half bottle of wine to share between two people, you will be paying around £40 per person."
• "Good food, but relatively expensive if you think it's steak and chips with some lettuce and vinaigrette dressing as a starter."
• "For its reputation, we expected bigger portions."
• "£29 for a basic salad, steak and chips."