Red Dog Saloon

Appalling service. About as much atmosphere as a pizza chain restaurant in a shopping mall. Lacklustre food - my burger tasted of microwaved Burger King takeaway. Did I mention the service? Do yourself a favour and grab a kebab on the corner rather than wasting your money here. If you really want a burger or barbecue then there are at least 10 other options that do it 100 times better than this place.

Appalling service. About as much atmosphere as a pizza chain restaurant in a shopping mall. Lacklustre food - my burger tasted like microwaved Burger King takeaway. Did I mention the service? Do yourself a favour and pick up a kebab on the corner rather than wasting your money here.

A genuinely terrible attempt at a barbecue restaurant. Unauthentic, no atmosphere, and poor service to add to the overpriced, small portions provided. Bodeans is genuinely a million times better. Don't waste your time or money on this place.

Last night I had the worst burger that I've had in a very long time. I don't normally write reviews but this place really takes the piss. The staff were indifferent and rude, the food was worse than average and a pint of beer costs £5. I guess the management rely on the constant foot traffic to fill the place with first timers because I can't imagine anyone going back for a second time. Truly awful.

After booking a table and then being told we could only have it for 1 hour before the next group arrived, we were quickly made to order. The burgers arrived within 5 minutes of placing the order. I ordered the Devestator, mash and firery beans. Everything was cold. The bun appeared to have been microwaved or something... I sent it back and it arrived again Luke warm. Average taste, wouldnt bother going here again. Also, make sure you dont need to use the toilets whilst here.. they are disgusting!

Having tried the best that London has to offer in BBQ and being in the food business myself, initially I found the website appealing and the menu tempting, however, the meal was very disappointing. It took ages for anyone to serve us, finally we were approached by an 18 year old female waitress who was stumped when we asked her about the variation of wings and she said she has to ask somone else, I noticed she then delivered two orders to the wrong tables, basically the management have not got a clue. Luckily Red Saloon receive a steady flow of business, but I am not sure how much repeat business they get, the food was tasteless and the worst burger I have had in a long time. Overall I couldn't wait to get out of there, it cannot be that hard to get it right, can it?

If your after good food, good service and good prices DONT go to red saloon. Read the reviews here, its a very poor experience. Much better at Meat Liquor or Dukes.

Worst meal out in a long time... took 20 minutes for anyone to even notice that we were sat at our table waiting. When a server finally acknowledged us he complained about how he "had been been better, what with working two doubles in a row". Made us feel slightly guilty for even being sat there. Food took an hour to arrive, when it did, one order was wrong, and everything was cold. The pulled pork was dry, and the ribs tough and tasteless. The manager didn't seem particularly bothered when we told him we'd like to leave our food, so we paid the bill for our drinks. Upon leaving a member from the stag do next to us had to be rescued from being sick on our table, we decided to finish our drinks outside. Whilst stood outside, the stag from said party was dragged out by his two friends completely annihilated with trousers round his ankles leaving little to the imagination... a funny story to tell but not my idea of a nice meal out.

Overall the experience was good. It's a great location in a part of London I like to visit. The premises themselves are well decorated, cool (upstairs and downstairs) even on a warm evening, and there are plenty of staff. The atmosphere in the place is good with a lot of chatter and music - you have to almost raise your voice to have a conversation but not so much that you're shouting! We were greeted by the very friendly Maître D, who had a great sense of humour and made jokes about our missing dining partner (3 attended a booking for 4 which was not an issue), and all of the staff were cheerful, attentive and in good humour. Our waiter cocked up the order - first he showed up with no notepad, and was cocky enough to take the order anyway - any good waiter should be able to do this, however the BBQ Wings came out as Buffalo wings - we decided not send them back as we enjoy buffalo wings, and they were damn good wings! Not sure about "best wings in London" but they were almost worthy of the title. Two of us had a rib dinner (5 St Louis cut ribs - seperated, with two sides - choices including beans, meaty beans, mac n cheese, fries, onion rings). One of the rib dinners came out without Fries but with coleslaw instead. Due to immense hunger at this point we decided not to kick up a fuss, and the coleslaw was really good. The ribs were OK - certainly not "award winning", they were tender in places, tough in others, but the flavour was very good. Main criticism was that they were over charred - too much carbon! I'm just not a fan of the st louis cut of Rib, much prefer baby back - so maybe I am biased. Our other dining companion had the "Devastator" burger which is basically 1.5lbs of meat, loads of cheese, sauce all between steamed brioche - I have to say that this looked absolutely incredible. They clearly understand the burger. Overall it was a good experience. We'd go back but we wouldn't have the Ribs again. The burger and wings were superb. Alex.

Rudest hostess ever, made us feel so unwelcome we didn't even stay to find out about the food! Don't go without a reservation.