My Old Place

The food is excellent and the prices are very reasonable. The experience is terrible. We were sent down stairs after we queued for a while. The staff downstairs said that there are no free tables, while there were only 4 people seated. When questioned I was told that the other tables are booked, while there were no reservation signs. We were told to queue again. When we came upstairs, the other customers who were behind us were sent down stairs again. After some more delay, we were told that there are three seats and we should eat within an hour. When we got seated three of us were given one menu card. When asked we were told that there are no more, but there were more than 20 seats vacant. The conversations were not polite. It was almost as if the restaurant was paying for us. The whole atmosphere is targeted towards the Chinese community and friends that they bring in. Anyone else will be treated as extra. You can sit in a corner and eat but you can't ask for anything. Even the waiters will not come to wait at our table, while they will go and ask what they need from other tables. It's hard to believe that this place exists in the middle of London, but it does and when you go here you will understand. Good food highly biased and racial.

Worst service I've ever had. We got there at 9 . Immediately waitress asked us order n I said give me one sec. She came back 10 second later... I gave up n ask her recommendation n ordered . At 10, they said they would close now , even we didn't finish half of them. But I didn't want to stay any more , so ask doggy bag. They charged £1 , even they force us to leave after an hour , an hour before them closing time. How wonderful service is it ?? I will never ever go back n recommend the awful restaurant !!!!!

Very horrible service. We arrived for a late lunch at 2.30 and the restaurant has a sign saying its closed. We were prepared to leave for another restaurant but a man who looked like the owner/manager opened the door and said its ok so we went in. However the waitresses were visibly upset about that and were muttering about their afternoon rest and that the kitchen is closed. Two waitresses chased us to orsee although we said we werent ready. We left and went to Sichuan Folk near Spitalfields. It was my first time at My Old Place and I am not going back.

Feeling nostalgic for dishes which I ate when living in China, I came here having trawled Chinese blogs on London. It lived up to expectations - tasty food which is the closest I've found so far to what I ate abroad. Good value, large portions, busy and variety of dishes. Expect spice.

quite cheap, that's the only credit from me. I am a sichuan food lover and tried many sichuan restaurants like Bashu in china town, sichuan-folk in liverpool street,......etc and know that the sichuan dishes here are not authentic at all. The taste for all sichuan dishes are just spicy spicy and spicy nothing else! but xinjiang dishes like cumin-spiced barbecued lamb skewers is taste good.