Ducksoup

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41 Dean Street

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Ducksoup Rog Greig

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Rated as: 3/5 (35 ratings)
  • Brass neck more than brasserie. I was charged £8 for a glass of wine which had gone off - and the owner had the brass neck to say that that was the style of wine in South Italy (after admitting the bottle had been opened "only 3 days ago"). Shame that the service is so awful because the food is good. Ask to taste the wine first.

    Kev Stanley About 2 days ago
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • We went there upon recommendation. I am now sitting at home with a bad stomache and a nasty after taste of greasy lamb chop in my mouth!!! On top of that, who serves red wine (over priced) in cheap brandy or whiskey decanters?,! Wrong wrong wrong and smelly and noisy. Sorry Duck Soup say goodbye!

    Martin Drayton Tue Apr 30
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  • Loud. Noisy. Cramped.Dark and gloomy and not in a cool way.Smells of damp.Tough meat. I could go on but won't. With all the choice in SoHo, avoid this one, despite how 'now' people claim it to be.

    SS Mon Apr 29
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  • A very unsatisfactory place to eat. I paid £40 in advance for 3 small glasses of wine and food that in its entirety could be fitted onto a small saucer. Throughout the evening we were given (or rather thrown on the nearest table) miniscule portions. There was nowhere near enough food for the size of our party and staff appeared oblivious to it. You felt awkward eating because you felt that you were taking someone else's portion. I will NEVER frequent this place again and I wouldn't recommend anybody else to.

    JDevon Sun Mar 24
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • I have to agree with many of the negative reviews below. I went to Ducksoup with my husband, following a mouth-watering review that I read on the Telegraph as well as the Timeout reviews. And I have to say, the place was a bit of a disappointment. The place is tiny and super-crammed - though the decor is nice. We sat at the bar as there were no free tables (though for some reason there was one guy siting a a two people table during most of our meal, drinking water...). I appreciate that Ducksoup want to accommodate as many people as possible, but they really could have left out 1-2 stools at the bar, giving each person more than 15" of space. The service is rushed but slow at the same time (if it makes sense) even though there are WAY too many waiters (at one point we counted 8 staff members for maybe 20 guests). The wine list is limited and VERY expensive - a small glass of house red was £6.80! The food is ok but nothing to write home about. The starters were nice enough (rare hanger stake, radiccio, pine nuts & Parmesan and some bread with nduja sausage). For main I had roast guinea fowl (or some other small bird), which was the toughest thing I've ever eaten - I could barely cut off pieces. Plus, it seemed to have still had it's intestines which had 'spilled out' and were incredibly bitter. My husband had some Moroccan inspired lamb which was fine. The whole meal was slightly redeemed by dessert (buttermilk rose pudding with rhubarb). The bill came up to about £60 (including just 1 small glass of wine as my husband was drinking water) - which given the size and the overall quality of the food was absolutely not worth it. In a nutshell, I think this place is really over-hyped and there are lots of other places (e.g. Elliot's Cafe in Borough Market) which od a similar 'thing' with similar prices but MUCH better.

    AnnaW Tue Mar 5
    Rated as: 2/5
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  • Snotty and pretentious. Avoid.

    loaferm8 Fri Dec 21 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • Adore this restaurant. You don't do wedding catering do you?

    Sarah Sat Dec 1 2012
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • I had high hopes for Duck Soup but the experience was a bit...odd. The general air was of a sort of haughty "aren't we clever?" sort of place. I think the mistake we made was coming for dinner in what is a very tiny and very loud space. Not least because you can hardly fit two dinner plates on the tiny tables. I think that coming for an informal couple of glasses of wine at the bar with some of the smaller plates would have been a better idea. The food was pretty good, although making a big deal about the bread (at a cost of £2) coming with unpasturised butter and then presenting 4 hunks of really thick chewy sourdough with the tiniest sliver of butter imaginable was a bit off. I asked for more butter and some was brought without fuss, but why not just give a regular amount of butter in the first place? I'm not sure quite what I was expecting Duck Soup to be and I'm not really sure what it is trying to be, other than too cool for school.

    Lubeeloo Fri Sep 14 2012
    Rated as: 2/5
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  • The most unsatisfactory place I have eaten at in the whole of London. The portions are minuscule, so so tiny. Squid came in a bowl that I use at home to put salt in, I initially thought it was popcorn. The whole place serves condiment sized portions. If you order bread you get two slices halved. The wine list is very limited and very expensive, the cheapest bottle is over £30 and below that its only a carafe, which barely serve a glass each between three. The staff are rude and unfriendly. The only people who seemed alright were the ones sitting on the table facing the street, I noticed their portions seemed larger (but perhaps that was my hunger magnifying anything edible). We paid £32 for a carafe of beaujolais, 2 halved slices of bread, 6 thin slices of something slightly larger than pepperami and some bits of fried squid no larger than my fingernail in a bowl 2 inches across. We were going to have main courses but were so discouraged by the whole experience that we cut our losses and went elsewhere. Totally overpriced. A miserable experience. I wish we'd queued for Burger and Lobster next door. I hated this place.

    g_finknottle Tue Sep 11 2012
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  • I actually did enjoy my previous visit to Duck Soup and was happy to return there last Friday, however - the level of service I received was one of the poorest I can recall, in any restaurant. As we were eating our main course, one of the waiters, spilled, by mistake, water on us and on our plate. While he did apologise, no help was offered to dry our clothes. We asked for a replacement of our wet dish, and when this arrived, were amazed to find out that we were served only 1/2 of the portion. To our question, we were answered that since we already ate some of it, we were only reimbursed by part of it. And I am asking - is there no shame in that??? and after having the waiter arguing with us for the reasons we were not entitled to enjoy a full portion, we were told that the level of service we received was of the highest quality. NEVER AGAIN WILL MY FOOT STEP IN THAT PLACE.

    GuyKe Sun Jul 15 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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