Reviews by Boris

Rules (Restaurant)
30 April 2007

I so wanted this to be a great evening with two Australian relations who came to London looking for "a good old-fashioned chop house". With a small group of 5 deciding to push the boat out at a very up-market chop house, Rules could not have made us less welcome.

5 is not a good number for restaurants, apparently, and boy did they let us know. The waiter was Super-supercilious, turning his nose up at the wine order and ridiculing one of our number over a simple request for a glass of tap water.

The food, moreover, was dull and hard work, served with whatever the opposite to humility is. If there was one thing that lifted the evening (if we don't count the gravy, which one of our Aussies had never encountered before and liked!), it was that the miserable waiter omitted a pudding from the final bill.

Difficult to find a gap in this year's diary (or next, come to that) for a return.

Rhodes W1 (Restaurant)
30 April 2007

We went there kind of expecting the down-side of a 'name' chef and were all pleasantly surprised. The food itself was, for the price range (and bearing in mind the location) quite adventurous and well cooked and presented. The staff, once they'd got the hang of our idiosyncracies, were helpful and enthusiastic, particularly considering we were a party of 6, which we applauded. Will definitely go back.