Ducksoup

just went yesterday and definitely not recommended. Paid £90 for two and this didn't feel like money well spent due to the tiny portion, low quality. I can't get why this place is so popular with so many other good options around!

Wow, best little SoHo spot I've found. Loved the veal ragu. Not to mention the extremely hot staff.

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WTF! What's with all the one stars? Have been here twice now. I absolutely love it! (for dinner anyway) The atmosphere in the evening is great. It's tiny yes and loud and yes it is cool but in a genuinely relaxed way. The food, for me, is heaven! Just great ingredients and flavours and I like the sharing concept of different sized dishes. Some of the wine is a little unusual but in a good way. Service is friendly and effecient. It's not cheap (bread £2 for two slices!!) but mostly great value and we are drinkers. I highly recommend this place!!!

I definitely like the vibe of the place, the cozy atmosphere sitting at the bar, the old tunes playing from the record player. Like many people said before, the food is sometimes overpriced, funnily enough though not quite stringent. 14 pounds for lamb cutlets is good, because the cutlets were excellent, but 14 pounds for wild mushrooms is a bit over the top. But the one star is not for the price of the food. One can be well aware from looking at the card that this will be a bit more expensive. The things that degraded the good atmosphere and the good food was the wine. a) I have never been to a restaurant where the wine is put in the class by using a measuring cup. I mean come on - you are no cheap cocktail bar. and b) - and this was the most chocking part ever - at the end of the evening we witnessed how the staff poured the different open bottles of wine into one bottle so only one bottle of every kind had to be stored. This was done to the ridiculous extend that even bottles which had barely anything left were poured into other bottles. Sorry Ducksoup, but this is our end.

I took a friend there for lunch last week and can categorically say I won't be going back again. Tiny portions (£3.50 for a spoon of roast pepper salad - wtf?) below average food (dry, flavourless gurnard with a small piece of braised fennel for £7), overpriced wine and worst of all, cold and impersonal service, meant that the whole experience didn't add up to the £90 they charged for it. I'm sure you can do better in London. One to avoid.

The food was incredibly average, over cooked and poor presentation The service was student like/ unattentive for the price asked. It should be called Soup Kitchen

This place is seriously overpriced and if you've got a hearty appetite expect to pay a lot as most dishes are tiny! Service isn't great, they added wrong items to our bill and forgot one of our dishes. I'd never go back or recommend the place

I hate to say it but it seems as though we may have a turkey here rather than a duck. I ate here with two friends on Saturday at lunch time. The menu has all of the typical 2009 Lower East Side cues we've come to expect from new eateries in Soho, lighting, staff blah blah blah. Sadly these have been executed with far less sucess than in other recent openings such as Spuntino or Da Polpo. Service is indifferent (at best), seating at the bar is horribly uncomfortable and the food mediocre. My biggest problem with this place is the price you pay. I have no problem with shelling out lots of money for a meal, all I ask for in return is some feeling of value for money. This could be through beautiful presentation, excellent service, fantastic ingredients or an awesome atmosphere. Sadly Ducksoup only delivers on the over inflated price.

I also went based on the reviews. The wine is undrinkable - they let me try every red wine they had as they have it all by the glass. Due to it being "organic" they have an odd cardboard flavour to it. I instead asked for hard liquer and the vodka is made out of milk? As it's organic? And they dont have any mixers...the food was good but nothing in comparision to Polpo/Da Polpo/Spuntino - and at least at Polpo you can drink normal alcohol. The service was slow and really they should provide with drinkable alcohol if they are thinking about surviving.

Agree with all one-starred comments... place is too small for a big plate of main.
Starters were ok but nothing special.

I'm in J.J. Jenssen and Ritchie's camp leaving me slightly sceptical, based on my lunch experience yesterday, of the 5* (really?) customer reviews. If it's a cold and soulless experience you want, then Ducksoup will be for you. This might be confused also with being too cool for school - take the guy, I'm guessing to be the manager (shaved head), who stands at the end of the bar with his laptop looking superior in a thouroughly bored kind of way. No, the atmos was bleak, the service average at best and the food a pricey OK. Nice house wine though. I won't be going again - Spuntino and Da Polpo do it way better, with a smile!

Went to eat here after seeing some positive early feedback. Based on my dinner last night this was very surprising. The service was rather slow, with 5 of our dishes coming within 10 minutes and waiting 20-25 minutes for the last one. When we raised this with the manager who was rude and arrogant and told us we should have expected this. The fritto misto we ordered has a heavy batter, they also seemed to use cheaper ingredients to bulk it out. We had a lemon with rind included and an artichoke with the leaves still on, resulting in a horrible texture. Some of the fish also had rather large bones included. It also got served at too warm a temperature so it burnt our tongues. This mistake also occurred with the fried courgettes. The menu relies mainly relies on good ingredients as a lot of the food is assembled rather than cooked. From what I could see there is much better produce on show at other places in London and indeed soho. This restaurant seems to be on trend with small tasting plates but has a very long way to go before you would consider it before Barrafina (around the corner) Spuntino, Polpo or Bocca Di Lupo. Bread was also charged for, it had ok taste and appeared to be brought in and was slightly dry. We raised our feedback we the manager at the end of the meal and he was rather dismissive.

I loved everything about this place - the food, wine, relaxed atmosphere and friendly staff. My friend and I ate 2 plates of seafood - one cooked and one raw. If you like to eat thick juicy scallops and prawns that melt in your mouth, come here. Natural wines are all good. I particularly enjoyed the fizz. Will be coming back here again and again and again...

Had high hopes - great staff, tasty menu, special wines - but perhaps trim the artichoke before it's deep-fried so we don't chomp on woody leaves? And £9.80 for a kir? Along with olives, 2 mains & a £24 bottle of white = £72. On-trend yes but Dean Street offers much better...

This is definitely my favourite place in Soho at the moment. It's chilled out and cool without being too pretentious. I hope they open the downstairs area soon!

Love this place - top food and wine - plus very rude sounding beer...
not cheap but well worth the money

Went on the first night (26/9/11) - We had lovely smoked mackerel with tomatoes and salami to share followed by amazing lamb chops and beef carpaccio with mozzarella. Wines are excellent - think all natural... akin to Terroirs' wine list

We were also really impressed with the very unsnobby attitude of the staff. they look cool, but act nice... which isn't always the case in Soho nowadays...

Individual ratings: food 5/5, wine 5/5, service 4.5/5, atmosphere 5/5...