Tonteria

Place sux !!! Was going to pop in for a night cap and was told by a couple of rude wanna be south african rugby gorilla door bouncers that I must wait for the hostess bru!! Well bru I went some place else... the legend dies beause of poorly trained staff. Hate to think what the SW1 rents are . Shall put this on twitter and FB. Hope you shine up you deserve better!!

Awful place, dont ever go there!!! Book a table there in advance for my birthday party and was left on the street with my guests at my birthday because the door staff said its full and t5hey didnt care about my booking.. the worst experience ever!!! ZERO RATED!

Following on from below, I've realised I didn't set my rating - obviously it goes without saying that it's one star, and it doesn't even deserve that.

London is a fantastic place to live; the variety on offer is unbeatable. And we've got to be grateful for this, because if Tonteria was the only bar around, we'd all end up moving pretty quickly! A group of us decided to try out this bar last night, and unfortunately it was the worst decision we've made in a long time. We should have guessed from the looks of the door staff that we were in for something different - their overdosed steroid eyes looked as it they'd chuck us out if we mentioned anything about the overpriced drinks. The fun started when we came in - the manager sat us down at a table, but then decided that actually it wasn't the table for us. So he asked us to move. We put this down to an error in staff communication, so we let it go. But then he decided that actually our second table also wasn't the right one - when we refused to move, he came and got his cronies to make the message clear! It was a fantastic experience watching the bar staff moving people around (they kindly carried the food for you if you had to re-locate tables) - it was like a big game of musical chairs. To put it plainly, this is by far the worst bar I've ever been to. The staff were ridiculous, the place itself looked cheap and tacky, and everything was overpriced (even more so than you'd expect in Sloane Square). If you want to see how NOT to run a bar, go there.

Just to be clear - I wanted to give this venue zero stars but it seems this was automatically set at 3 stars for my review below. Avoid!

Also suffered horrific treatment at this shallow-minded bar by rude, impatient staff. On having been sat at a table with our female friends, my mate and I were asked to move to the bar area, to leave the table free for girls only. It was in fact spelled out to us that they wanted to have 'girls only' at the tables to make the place look like it was packed with women - a sad state if they're having to force it so much to appear that way. The staff member stood over us and spoke to us angrily until we moved and both of us found this completely insulting. The bar itself didn't even seem to have that much to offer as it was small and the space was awkwardly organised. Avoid this bar if you are looking for a good evening!

to reiterate the below (no idea why the user has given 5*) we booked a table for ny friends birthday party and arrived half an hour late and were told the table had been given away. Would have been semi ok if they had told us this would be the case in advance or been in any way decent about it but they were just incredibly rude. I know door staff arent often famed for their charm but this was extraordinary. Apparently even general entrance wasnt possible as they were "at capacity"... we therefore then waited for 40 mins on their advice while "something became free", and when it did we watched in awe as a couple of slick haired guys (who turned up 20 mins after us) got let in before us. I dont actually even know why i am suprised, but for whatever reason it wound me up given we wasted the best part of an hour of our lives we will neverget back. The door policy is definitely not as egalitarian as the above review would have you believe and given we are approaching a triple dip recession and 2 previous clubs in its place here have closed down before it prhaps they should be a little less complacent and a little more human. i wont be patronising it again.

Awful treatment at the door. We had booked a table for an all-girl party and when we got at the door the manager said that because one of the girls was wearing flat shoes we were not allowed to get in! We told him nicely that no one told us anything about flat shoes being a no no policy of the club but he insisted that he would not let us in and told us to go somewhere else! Never before I have seen such behaviour. I had been to that club before with friends and had a great time and I was really disappointed to see this treatment at the door. The funny part is that the girl wearing flat shoes apologised and said she would go and change to high hills but the guy at the door said that by then it was too late because he was already done with us! Unacceptable behaviour under any standards.