Bleeding Heart Tavern

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Wed Oct 19 2011

Upstairs: a buzzy bare-brick space with elaborate carved-wood bar and close-packed tables heaving with shirts-and-ties. Downstairs: a demure, even dowdy, dining room with spacious booths sporadically occupied by a quieter, older crowd.

Both: a menu that reads somewhere between nursery food and gastropub, and service that manages to look professional but act erratically. The food is well priced yet hit-and-miss: potted prawns, venison scotch egg, and pea and ham hock soup all serviceable but unexciting; fish pie well made and generous with the salmon; other mains poor, with flaccid roast (we presume) potatoes accompanying dry spit-roast pork, and a nasty haddock-flavoured roux sauce swamping an omelette.

In all, a drab background against which the excellent wines shone brightly. The Bleeding Heart owns a vineyard in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, and offers several of its cuvées here at good prices. The 2010 sauvignon blanc (£9.75 for a free-poured half bottle) was sophisticated yet vivid, and the 2009 pinot noir smooth and silky; the shiraz has been lauded by Robert Parker.

Overall, a slightly odd experience: we suspect the Bleeding Heart trades a little too much on its two-century history while feeling, ironically, dated.

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Address:
Bleeding Heart Tavern Bleeding Heart Yard
London
EC1N 8SJ

Cross Street:
19 Greville Street
Phone:
020 7242 8238
Website:
www.bleedingheart.co.uk
Opening hours:
Tavern Open 7am-11pm Mon-Fri. Lunch served noon-3pm, snacks served 3-6pm, dinner served 6-10.30pm Mon-Fri. Main courses £8.95-£15.45. Bistro Lunch served noon-3pm, dinner served 6-10.30pm Mon-Sat. Main courses £8.95-£18.90. Restaurant Lunch served noon-2.30pm, dinner served 6-10.30pm Mon-Fri. Main courses £13.45-£28.95
Transport:
Tube: Farringdon tube/rail
Price:
All House wine £19.25 bottle, £3.95 glass
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1. Bleeding Heart Tavern
  - Bleeding Heart Yard
    London
    EC1N 8SJ
  - 020 7242 8238
  - www.bleedingheart.co.uk
  - 51.519294,-0.106937

Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. On-site dining. Restaurant. Licensed. Restaurant and bar facilities. Reservations required. Function rooms. General facilities. Private rooms. Outdoor facilities. Tables outdoors
Occasions:
Business. Drinks. Wine buffs. Going in a group. History buffs. Unique. Unique London
Type of event:
Parties

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(3 ratings)

The manager of the Tavern is amongst the rudest men I have encountered in the service industry. A real shame as the food was very good and the bar tender very friendly. But the manager's manner is abrupt and unwelcoming. Avoid this place!

Vickie Tue Mar 13 2012
Rated as: 1/5
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I used to go regularly to the Bleeding Heart during the 1990s. I loved it! But years on and it is a pale impression of its former self. First, they hadn't recorded the booking which caused consternation, but found a table, which salvaged the situation. The meal was very ordinary for the price: crab tian was dry and tasteless and the pork belly was overlooked but with soggy crackling, which must have taken some doing. At the price of £45 per head before the wine, it really is not good value anymore. Very disappointing!

David A Fri Feb 10 2012
Rated as: 2/5
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Great and friendly service at the Tavern. Very nice atmosphere. Good food. Definitely going back soon!

B Williams Wed Nov 2 2011
Rated as: 4/5
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The Bleeding Heart Bistro and Tavern are simply both awful places to eat. The staff are very rude, unattentive and do not care if you complain. The food is over priced and of poor quality and cooked poorly. The steak (you think the French would know how to cook such a simple dish) was not cooked to order, cold (it must have been left to rest overnight) and flavourless. The steak hache was poor quality steak and the cooks re-cooked. Do not waste you money on this awful trio of restuarants. **** You have been warned *****

Pat Keogh Thu Jun 9 2011
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