Fox

Well maintained real ales and a decent wine and bar snack menu have kept our office in the bar way too late many a time! Venturing upstairs for their early dining offer: gratefully a decent selection from their a la carte menu, we started with some tasty home made bread, well prepared morcilla & a nice take on mushrooms on toast with a fried egg. Mains were generous and well presented, my partners lamb stew was rich, meaty and tender, my roasted hake with black cabbage was equally so. We skipped deserts but at £12.50 per person + drinks and service we left happily fully and not too light in the pocket!

My partner has mentioned trying this Shoreditch boozer after work for a while now, so we thought it was about time to take a closer look at what we had seen through the window after cycling past. Tuesday, 6:30pm and the bar was bustling with drinkers and diners alike, a solid choice of well looked after draft beers (Star, Becks, Hoegarrden to name a few) and some cracking real ale (Thanks to the barman for letting me try them all!) kept us occupied until the food arrived. No bought in/reheated food here; my lamb steak was juicy, well cooked and served with the care and attention the cut of meat deserved. My partner ordered pork belly from the bar menu; which was crispy and accompanied with a tasty bean stew. No room for deserts but the atmosphere and friendly staff kept us in for a glass of well sourced malbec before we pedalled off into the damp roads of Shoreditch. Looking for the toilets (there in the basement btw) I had a sneaky look at the upstairs dining room and will most certainly be coming back! Food 8/10 Atmosphere 8/10 (bar) Value for money 9/10

Never had such bad service in my life. Having booked this place beacuse of their varied menu (we had a few food allergies, veggies etc) we had a set menu of 3 choices starter, 3 choices main shoved in front of us and were told there was usually a full menu, but because of the private party downstairs the kitchen couldn't do that for us. After waiting 2 hours for our cold starters to arrive, (we were the only people in the dining room) we had the manager come in with the plates and say, "yeah, sorry it's taken so long, but we have a private party going on downstairs and you were late getting here" (we were 10 minutes late, and had phoned ahead to tell them). Thanks The Fox for ruining my friends birthday! All of you were rude and vile to a perfectly nice party of 11 people, who just wanted to eat their dinner. We didn't stick around for the main course to arrive we'd have been there till midnight