Giant Robot

Came with a birthday group for a meal last weekend and we were very disappointed with the quality of the food. Extremely average which is not good enough at the prices they charge. The crostini were a particular lowlight - voted by several of our group as the worst ever had. Several meals arrived cold and the beers weren't cold. (at £4.50 per bottle - they should have been). I will admit the cocktails were decent and good value which makes sense as the Match bars were always good with these
Positives - nice atmosphere, friendly service and good cocktails
Negatives - rubbish food

10 of us had a meal last Friday and the food is overpriced rubbish. Can't imagine how anyone is positive about it. Even the beers weren't cold. Only the cocktails were decent, which makes sense as Match bars always did these well. Nice buzzy vibe but stick to the cocktails here and forget the rest.

If you are concerned about spending £7 - £8 on a salad or a drink, I would not recommend going to Giant Robot; this is not because it is overpriced but simply due to the reason, once you start sampling the cocktail list, you will not be able to stop!

I am used to paying £10 -£15 for a cocktail in central London, but the cocktails at this venue were half the price yet twice as good.

The staff were very polite and despite being bombarded with our requests, they were incredibly friendly and attentive, especially the manager; without having to ask, she made sure we always had water on our table, she made excellent recommendations and treated us as valuable guests rather than potential sales. She even helped to organize taxis to take us home.

If you appreciate good cocktails and impeccable service, Giant Robot is certainly worth a visit.

I completely disagree with the previous comment - after trying to negotiate the very complicated menu we asked for some serious advice.

We were advised to treat the menu a lot like a tapas menu (Understandably the portions weren't huge - but for 6.00 for a salad i wouldn't expect to be able to eat that and only that.). We were navigated through an extensive cocktail list and also offered the chance to challenge the bar man as we were told there wasn't a cocktail he didn't know how to make - we couldn't find any!

My only complaint would be that it gets really busy (Like a cute little NY bar in the village) later on as it transforms from restaurant to bar so if you're on a date it can be quite hard to hear each other.

Apart from that fab fab fab, attentive relaxed service, good food, and not too pricey for a London restaurant, will be back for a "Lazy Sunday Bruch" soon!

I cannot recommend against visiting Giant Robot enough. The atmosphere was great but the service was appallingly rude. Food portions were very small and overpriced. A "small" serve of salad was the size of a size platter and cost £7-£8. When we queried the price and size, we were first told that the goat's cheese was the reason for the expense which we did not agree with. The waiter then said we should have asked more questions when we ordered our food.

Rather than being a relaxed place to have drinks and a nibble after work on a Friday night, the staff were obviously uptight and not interested in providing a service so much as keeping up appearances.