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Located in the middle of Soho’s most hectic strip, Balans is all things to all people. It functions as a first-stop breakfast café, a pleasant lunchtime brasserie, a buzzy evening restaurant and an after-pub (or even after-club) restaurant-bar. Such adaptability should be applauded, even if the food can be a bit hit and miss. The space is large, with a big open front bar and a more secluded area out back. The menu is impressively – perhaps even worryingly – varied. We started with so-so seared scallops and black pudding and some cracking enchiladas, before moving on to a pleasant and extremely filling fish pie crammed with cod, pollack and prawns. The catch of the day, salmon, was served with a slightly over-tart salsa verde. But Balans isn’t really a place for eating, it’s somewhere to be seen eating. The pavement and window tables are rarely free of poseurs until the early hours. There’s also a weekday cocktail happy two hours beginning at 4pm for those who want to get the party started early.
Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
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I am there a lot and it's a fab place. The food is delicious, the waiters and management are very attentive and nice. Definitely worth a visit or two!
A good place. Fab burgers; good drinks; service goes from the bitchy to the warm and attentive. Enjoy.
this is the worst place ever!!! ok, the waiters are cute but that is about it. the management is rude and the policy that every person has to order of the main menu on weekends is pathetic especially if one is advised after ordering and opening a bottle of wine at the bar. i have never heard of any such policies at any restaurant in the whole world an me and my friends will certainly not come back!!!!!