ROKA Aldwych Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Brilliant food, so many delicious things to eat. The sushi is amazing."
• "Each dish was beautifully presented and tasted amazing."
• "The food was varied, visually beautiful and just delicious."
• "Every single dish tasted great."
• "The food is delicious and very well made."
• "The lamb cutlets were deliciously seasoned and tender, they are to die for!"
• "The food here is just godly. I can never get over how good the black cod miso is, is it even real?"

Cons:

• "Very mixed experience with the food, Sea Bream was awful/inedible and ribs were dry."
• "The food looks nice if you are into taking photos of it, apart from that it is average quality food at inflated price."
• "Spent £175 and we didn't enjoy the quality of the food at all."
• "The sushi at the local supermarket is even better than this, sushi had no taste seemed like it came from the fridge, already made in the morning."
• "The ribs and wings were not nice in my opinion."
• "Despite being an upscale Japanese restaurant, Roka's food was rather underwhelming."
• "The beef wasn't the best quality but it was cooked in delicious Korean spices so it didn't matter much."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff went above and beyond to accommodate for us."
• "The service was fantastic."
• "Fantastic service and friendly staff."
• "Attentive friendly service, and a great vibe/atmosphere."
• "The waiters were helpful and fast. Vicky, our waitress, was especially welcoming; Our glasses of water were never empty."
• "Our lovely waitress Vicky was an absolute star! She brought a smile to our face, was extremely accommodating and has a natural talent in customer service."
• "Big thanks to our waitress Vicky who was super friendly, attentive and gave great recommendations."

Cons:

• "The service was just bad. Sake was forgotten and only arrived after a reminder, mains arrived all at different times."
• "The team were clearly understaffed as service was painfully slow."
• "Unfortunately the service was average and one of the men was incredibly rude to us."
• "The service was the biggest let down by far."
• "Service staff very forgetful and pretty slow despite it only being moderately busy."
• "Service is poor for this class of restaurant."
• "I went to Roka Aldwych with 3 friends for brunch 3 days ago and received extremely disappointing and rude service."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "You get so much for your money at brunch on the weekends."
• "The sunday brunch menu is amazing value for money with bottomless prosecco and ample food."
• "The £35 set menu is really good value for money and is more food than we expected."
• "Lunch set menu is a very good price for what you get."
• "The Pre-Theatre menu which has great value."
• "The 3-course lunch menu was excellent in taste and super worth the price!"
• "One of my favourite bottomless brunches in London!! Such good value for money."

Cons:

• "Overall food is good but it is extremely expensive for what you get."
• "A little pricey at £200 for three without alcohol but worth it."
• "Rushing us to eat was totally unnecessary specially if we consider the place to be rather expensive."
• "Was really expensive though at around £100 per person."
• "Extremely overpriced!! So many better sushi places for a fraction of the cost."
• "The weekday lunch menu portions are very small (even the premium set, and overpriced)."
• "However, the price is a bit too high for what you get I suppose..."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "The restaurant itself was very spacious unlike the other Roka branches."
• "Also preferred the interior over the Mayfair one."
• "Great, buzzy but not noisy, atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere was amazing!"
• "Vibrant atmosphere without being too noisy."
• "The atmosphere was refined and the intimate lighting facilitated a feeling of seclusion."
• "The atmosphere is nice but quite relaxed which we like."

Cons:

• "It was difficult to hear each other, as it happens."
• "The main section gets really noisy so difficult to hear conversation on your own table."
• "It is really loud and noisy so it is difficult to catch up with friends without shouting."
• "The atmosphere was horrible. Full of quite strange people for whom this place seems to be a bit of a status symbol visit."
• "The atmosphere was far too loud."
• "Extremely loud making hard to have a conversation."
• "Music is slightly too loud."