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High Road Brasserie
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This good looking place on Chiswick High Road is a social chameleon. At breakfast the menu sports everything from the ‘full English’ to generous stacks of buttermilk pancakes. Come in the evening and expect killer cocktails and no-nonsense brassiere mains. We visited for weekend brunch when the place was clattering with trendy west Londoners and young families were spilling out onto the street to enjoy the good weather. Inside there is dark wood furniture, green-grey banquettes and striking coloured floor tiles, all centred around a busy bar area. Waiters in starched white aprons and black waistcoats deliver faultless service despite the crowds. Our ‘pig sandwich’ was a delight – shreds of succulent pork mounded into bread with Bramley apple sauce. Giant burgers are served on wooden boards and top-notch shoestring chips come in galvanised pots. You certainly won’t leave hungry. Less exciting was a pear crumble with custard, but this place (part of the Soho House group, and with accommodation available) is more about the buzzing atmosphere than cutting-edge cuisine. Whatever the time of day, you are sure to be seduced by the slickness of the operation.
Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
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- 162-166 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, W4 1PR
- Area: Chiswick
- Tel: 020 8742 7474
- www.highroadhouse.co.uk
- Book online
- Category: Brasseries
- Travel: Turnham Green tube
- Times: Breakfast served 7am-noon Mon-Fri; 8am-noon Sat, Sun. Brunch served noon-5pm Sat, Sun. Dinner served 5pm-midnight Sat; 5-10pm Sun. Meals served noon-11pm Mon-Thur; noon-midnight Fri
- Price: Main courses £10-£22. Set lunch £13 2 courses, £16 3 courses
- Credit cards: AmEx, MC, V
- Services:
- Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: children's menu; crayons; high chairs; nappy-changing facilities; toys
- Disabled: toilet
- Outdoor tables: 9, terrace
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Very disappointing - Nice brasserie ambience BUT avoid meat at all costs: chewy and tasteless. Rest of the food is OK though a little bit bland. Chocolate fondant is very good. 2 stars max, especially for the price they charge
(NB: Some friends had similar meat experience but had the guts to get theirs sent back to the kitchen!)
I just went there today for Afternoon Tea and I was disappointed. I suggest to take the 5 pound tea set instead of the 10 pound tea set. The scones, with clotted cream and jam is pretty good; Tea is great as well. But the extra plate of sweets (from the 10 pound tea set) is just WAAAAAYYY too sweet. So sweet it almost feel disgusting. May be because I'm not use to the British taste. Service was good, no wait for Sunday afternoon.
Great atmosphere. Good food
Had breakfast here last Sunday morning - absolutely faultless.
After a number of good reviews, I expected far more of this brasserie. What we found was tables, at least to one side of the door, are far to close together. Our table was next to the door to the toilet (which they didn't let us know when we booked) and we were constantly bumped by waiting staff as they tried to serve the people around us. The service was poor: we were served by at least four different people, we waited 10 minutes to be asked if we would like a drink, we has to ask several times for our tap water and the cod with white beans and parsley I had was overcooked and the white beans over-salted. As someone who loves their salt, this is a hard feat for any restaurant to achieve. Most disappointing was that when I asked for the service charge to be removed the manager (?) asked why and when I listed the points above said he would 'deal with the waitress who is the problem' at which point I had to point out that understaffing, poor cooking and awkward layout was unlikely to be her fault. It is disappointing when managers are so quick to blame their staff.
There are too many decent gastro pubs in west london that serve good food in pleasant surroundings for less for this place to get any more custom from me.