Andrew Edmunds

Great wine list. Food and decor both have character and thought. Staff are professional (the place is too small to have waitresses being your best friend). Always try the desserts.

Charming but forgettable. Good for a first date, but not a special occasion.

The charming appearance of this restaurant led to great expectations, soon quashed by brusque staff and poor, tastless food. Our waiter seemed gruff beyond measure and lacking in any natural inclination for his job. He persisted in marching heavily and agitatedly between tables, annoying customers with pre-emptory requests of "Are you finished?", which he closely followed by whipping away the plates of still masticating eaters. Many polite complaints were overheard but these seemed to fall on deaf ears, or at least provoked little sympathy and nothing in the way of apology. The food bore no similarity to menu descriptions and was sorely disappointing.

This place has a gift of a setting, and could be so much more! We witheld the service charge and won't be going back.

The service was rather frosty when we arrived but the staff warmed up during the evening, mostly due to a couple of larger parties who were much drunker than us! The menu is limited, and whilst the food presentation is not up to much, it was all very tasty. Upstairs the seats are tiny and if there are more than two of you it will feel very cramped on your table. Also, avoid going early as there's no music and it's very quiet. However, in spite of all of this we had a really nice evening!

They could do better by accepting Amex cards... We won't go back until then.

Very nice setting for romantic dinners. A reasonable wine list and innovative, delicious food. Service generally good.

Intimate, traditional dining rooms serving eclectic seasonal offerings such as tomato, thyme and pumpkin soup, and warm woodpigeon salad as starters. I opted for the dressed crab to start, followed by pan-fried swordfish with potato cake, spinach and gazpacho salsa, which was every bit as tasty as it sounds. My companion went for wild Scottish smoked salmon to start and the daube of beef with bacon and button mushrooms with mash - a hearty winter warmer.

Grumpy, unfriendly staff; mediocre to poor food that was cold and unappetising; cheap, nasty wine in expensive bottles... Surroundings (minus staff) really nice though.

This place is a real find - great food, large wine list, excellent service and lovely surroundings. A real romantic but effortless restaurant.

There was a lovely atmosphere, nice company and superb wine list, and a great fresh special starter... until I discovered plastic wrapping in my salad. Unacceptable, although the server, who until then had appeared rather lacklustre, pepped up with a replacement appetizer on the house. The rest of the meal was, albeit slightly tainted, extremely enjoyable.

I love it here. I've been twice and the second time was possibly even better than the first. The food is great, there is a massive selection of wines, all very reasonably priced, service is friendly and it's sooo romantic. Can't rate it highly enough.

Very disappointing. Our starters of Tuna Carpaccio and Dressed Crab had clearly been prepared much earlier and simply left on plate in the fridge (both very cold and served far too promptly to have been freshly prepared). The wine was served opened and my date's main, Gorgonzola Penne, looked more like something you'd be served in a town centre lunchtime cafe - very unimaginative. The service was overly brusque, until the end of the evening when our waiter noticeably cheered up! I won't be rushing back.

Warm and cosy atmosphere. Kind of different for London... just as you'd imagine restaurants in small villages in Europe. Great food, and GREAT desserts!

Delicious food, great service, excellent wine selection (if perhaps too much choice!) Rather unpretentious.

One of the best value for money restaurants in central London. Consistently good food and an interesting wine list - great for game in season.

Candle lit and cosy, but a bit too cramped for me. Fine for a low key dinner with someone special, but its not my favourite for a really special occasion.

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