The Drift Reviews Summary

Price

Pros:

• "It's good for the price."
• "The menu changes regularly and the food is superb at a good price."
• "Between us two guests we didn't pay too much."

Cons:

• "It’s very expensive for a very small meal."
• "Three courses for £50 because it Christmas didn’t quite sit right."
• "Overpriced for what you get."
• "The brunch is also advertised as £40 but they charged us £45 each!"

Service

Pros:

• "The service was absolutely excellent and friendly until we got booted out unceremoniously."
• "Service was quick."
• "The polite and attentive serving staff added to the positive experience."
• "From the start the waitress, Emily, was welcoming and accommodating."
• "The staff were exceptional and so attentive."
• "The waiter always kept an eye on our table, brought our food as we planned and the drinks also came in a timely manner."
• "The staff always made sure we had drinks and you were even able to change drink mid brunch."

Cons:

• "The service was absolutely excellent and friendly until we got booted out unceremoniously."
• "One of the waiters (bald, wears a waist coat) was really rude and kept ignoring us for most of the brunch."
• "Unfortunately we didn't receive good service at all."
• "Service was terrible, and it took ages for orders to be taken, and when they had been ages more for the drinks and food to actually arrive."
• "The staff were VERY rude and unaccommodating and didn't make any effort to rectify the mistake."
• "Very bad service. Food was reasonable but the joy of eating was taken away by the unavailability of many nibbles and taking a long time after the main course."
• "Some Drinks never came bar staff need to grow up, rude and patronising."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Solid food and great cocktails."
• "The food choices and their quality were exceptional."
• "The food was tasty and well presented."
• "Surprisingly good food."
• "Food was good and reasonable portions."
• "The food was great."
• "Great food, really nice inside, lovely cocktail range."

Cons:

• "The food wasn't the best either, the steak I had was okay, but the calamari we had as a starter was chewy and by no means 'fiery' as described on the menu."
• "The food was dry, flavorless."
• "The food was cold, and both bland and too salty."
• "Food was really poor, even basic homecooker can cook something better."
• "Food however was not good and bland overall."
• "The food was just bad, not only prepared badly but the quality of the food was atrocious."
• "Daughter ordered tortellini which I wouldn’t feed to an animal."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Such an amazing experience and such great music!"
• "Cosy, nice place. Good atmosphere."
• "The ambience of the place was also pleasant and I spent a good couple of hours there with a friend chatting."
• "Nice venue. Went there with work on Friday night, wasn’t too busy for the area and we could hear each other talking. Cool beats."
• "The decor is sophisticated and stunning."
• "Cool place, great location. Love the interior design. Trendy crowd. Warm atmosphere."
• "Atmosphere was great the service was wonderful!"

Cons:

• "We had a table of 9, and we was tucked around the corner where the music couldn’t really be heard well."
• "We were squashed into a room with 200 other people and had staff constantly bashing against our chairs."
• "Big place and we were in a corner with no room for people to move."
• "Extremely loud due to the crowd."
• "We did find the music got very unnecessary loud towards the end of our visit."
• "Another in a long line of London spots that push the music volume up unnecessarily, it's not really enjoyable to have to shout to be heard by (admittedly tipsy) friends."
• "Loud music so maybe not the greatest place for a first date and long waiting time."

Drinks

Pros:

• "Nice selection of beers and cocktails, had a few shots. It’s cool."
• "They also serve a variety of decent drinks including beer on tap."
• "Found drinks to be very tasty."
• "The variety of cocktails was very good. The Food was creative and also very nice."
• "We enjoyed the cocktails, which is a fantastic design and tastes."
• "Cocktails looked decent but weren't cheap but the beer selection was very good."
• "The staff are friendly and experienced, offering mixologist grade cocktails."

Cons:

• "Service for drinks was good though and was really the only saving grace."
• "After getting served (waited 5 minutes, being the only people there) our friends came and tried to get a drink."
• "12.5% service to plonk a bottle of overpriced prosecco on your table."
• "Every pint served to table was a short measure as well."