Tom's Kitchen

Brasseries

Grills

27 Cale Street

Expensive

Tom's Kitchen Rob Greig

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Mon Oct 3 2011

Although Tom Aikens first made his mark in haute cuisine, this brasserie is his stab at a more egalitarian style of cooking and service. It offers ‘food for everyone and anyone’ – as long as they can afford it. This is primarily a local for Chelsea Green residents; wear Thomas Pink or Joseph and you’ll fit right in.

Still, the place is highly likeable. It’s the comfort food that gets the attention – macaroni cheese, fish pie, beef burger, calf’s liver with mash – but the menu is lengthy and extends to the likes of pan-fried foie gras with duck egg and Ventreche bacon.

We’ve had complaints of poor service, and suspect that on very busy nights the tables would feel unpleasantly cramped. However, with an upbeat crowd and a bit of room for manoeuvre, the vibe is jolly good fun. Even better is a quiet breakfast time, when you can linger over superb pancakes and well-made coffee.

The decor – white brick tiles, marble counters, sleekly chunky wood furniture – was ahead of its time and still looks the business. The branch at Somerset House doesn’t have quite the same verve, but the location is a draw nevertheless.

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Address:
Tom's Kitchen 27 Cale Street
London
SW3 3QP

Phone:
020 7349 0202
Website:
www.tomskitchen.co.uk
Opening hours:
Breakfast served 8-11.30am, lunch served noon-3pm Mon-Fri. Brunch served 10am-4pm Sat, Sun. Dinner served 6-11pm daily
Transport:
Tube: Sloane Square or South Kensington tube
Price:
Main courses £12.50-£29.50
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1. Tom's Kitchen
  - 27 Cale Street
    London
    SW3 3QP
  - 020 7349 0202
  - www.tomskitchen.co.uk
  - 51.490330,-0.168192

Categories:
Food and drink
Facilities:
Restaurant and bar facilities. Reservations required. Breakfast. Brunch. Accessible facilities. General facilities. Private rooms. Available for hire
Occasions:
Meal times. Best for brunch. Best for breakfast. Business. Hip factor. Late night. Eating out. People-watching
Type of event:
Parties

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(15 ratings)

Friendly staff., great location, overpriced food and they should work on quality, loud. I am afraid, I will not go again for food, perhaps an after work drink

Momo About 12 days ago
Rated as: 1/5
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Love this place!

Luke Tue Jan 22
Rated as: 5/5
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Great brunch last Saturday with a bunch of friends. Breakfast heaven – eggs benedict, waffles, full English all cooked to perfection. All the products were great quality and they work with selected suppliers which feels good and justifies the pricing. Busy place but service friendly and quick – will definitely be back.

Simon Tue Jan 22
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I really don't understand the negative ratings! Tom Aikens is a great local place to eat and we regularly go there. We had a wonderful dinner last week: I can highly recommend the calves liver and the venison casserole! Please go and try it yourselve before believing these negative comments.

Karin Tue Jan 22
Rated as: 5/5
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We had a charcuterie board for starters which was a joke. Parma ham was worse than straight from the Tesco pac, capers were served ice cold, pate was non eatable. I'd give the bread ok on that platter but that's about it. Mains were dry and complements pretty bad. Beetroot with a suger'y balsamic reduction (jieeees), Sauerkraut that tasted like it's gone off. Root vegs were alright to say something postitive. We skipped dessert. Service fair but okay, like ants running around without knowing what they were doing. Is Tom Aikens involved in this in any way? If he is, it's a complete disaster! This was shit, shit at it's best!

swedelondon Mon Nov 26 2012
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Very poor of service made us waiting a main course for 1 hour...

An Fri Jun 22 2012
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Mediocre food, compared to the pricing. Tom Aiken's nearby has great food, so I had high expectations for this one but it wasn't worth it. Worst was service. They were extremely slow. We wait nearly 20 minutes before they cleaned our finished dishes up, dishes took forever to come out, and there was confusion and lack of communication between staff for calling our taxi - after waiting another 20 minutes we just decided to go out into the rain and get one ourselves. Overall very disappointing.

Haeyon Sat Jun 2 2012
Rated as: 2/5
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breakfast took approximately half an hour to arrive - for a sausage sandwich! boiled egg and soldiers came, rather pointlessly, with a hard boiled egg and butterless cold toasted soldiers that were so thick they wouldn't have fitted in the smallish eggs anyway. maybe it was an off day but any basic greasey spoon would have been better.

tom Fri May 18 2012
Rated as: 1/5
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Roast beef on Sunday was excellent. Great food and great service in a setting full of character. Highly recommended.

Karim Sun Feb 5 2012
Rated as: 4/5
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Our food took 1 hour and 45 minutes to arrive and was shamelessly overpriced. £20 for a chicken schnitzel which tasted like a breaded chcken breast from Marks and Spencer drenched in balsamic vinegar. The wine was £25 a bottle and tasted like it should have been £4.99. Never again.

Margot S Sat Nov 5 2011
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