Restaurants

I've been in Roast 2 days ago with my three friends. It's a gorgeous restaurants, hight ceilings so many waiters around you, but when it comes to food it's quite dissapointing. I had the fried cod with peas, it was the tail of the fish, so there was hardly any meat and sligtly overcooked, also my peas wasn't cook properly and thay charge £19.50 for the fish. My friends weren't happy with their meal either, as the portions are too small for the price. I would go there for drink but not for meal. It's totally overrated and over priced.

I firstI tried to make a reservation through Toptable since they were advertising a special (2 courses plus cocktail for 22 pounds), but since the maximum booking for this deal via Toptable was 4 people (however there was a note on the website saying you could bring up to 10 people using this offer), I called the restaurant directly and asked if I could book 10 people to on this deal for a farewell lunch. The woman said yes and I forwarded my credit card details. When we got to the restaurant they claimed only 4 of us could have the special and the rest had to pay full price. 2 out of the 3 sirloin steaks that were ordered rare were well-done, ridiculous seeing as they cost 25 pounds! The service was terrible. A friendly but highly untrained waitress didnt know who had ordered what and brought us the wrong wine and gave a fuzz when we wanted to send it back. Our tomato soups tasted like Campbells. The 'free' cocktail tasted terrible (champagne and whisky and pear juice). This is a highly overpriced restaurant not worth the money. There are certainly better places in London to have roasts and steaks. I dont know how Roast ever got its reputation. It might be ok for people on expense accounts but if paying out of your own pocket definately not worth it for what you get.