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Tom's Deli

226 Westbourne Grove, W11 2RH Full details & map

Diner: Creative contemporary

Time Out says 3 Users say 2/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Nov 28 2011

Tom's Deli is a happy place. You enter through a sweet shop displaying sugary treats in jars and retro packaging; bright wall art, kaleidoscopic paper lanterns and finds from Portobello market add more colour. Downstairs is the deli. Friendly staff led us up to the diner-like café, past yummy mummies and young couples, to the back garden. Small tables, plus the odd gnome, fill a tiny bohemian terrace under a fig tree.

The menu isn't especially innovative, but if you're after breakfast egg dishes, sandwiches or salad, it comes up trumps. We opted for some daily specials: spinach, pine nut and goat's cheese quiche for a light lunch; and a more substantial dish of tender beef goulash packed with paprika and caraway flavours on buttered pappardelle.

The beautifully arranged cakes - including raspberry chequerboard, and pistachio rosewater - are hard to resist, though the latter was a bit dry. The waitress waved us goodbye with a 'come again'. We certainly will.

Tags: Creative contemporary, European, Modern European, Breakfast/brunch, Chilling out, Hip factor, People watching, West, Westbourne Grove, Expensive, Deli, Restaurant, Café, Diner

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Tom's Deli details

Address

Tom's Deli

226 Westbourne Grove W11 2RH

Transport Notting Hill Gate tube

Telephone

020 7221 8818

Tom's Deli website

Open 8am-6.30pm Mon-Sat; 9am-6.30pm Sun

Main courses £10-£12

Credit cards MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 6, garden; 2, terrace ), Babies and children welcome ( high chairs ), Takeaway service

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Comments & ratings 2/5 (Average of 3 ratings)

By Vincent - Feb 26 2012

1/5

Right,I work around the corner from toms and I go there at my lunch time and every time I get something from them it ends up in the rubbish...lasagna full of pasta very little meat,ham baguettes not fresh ham,and today a pizza full of oil,disgusting!
I don't normally write bad reviews but a bit tired of throwing my money to the rubbish and is not cheap by the way.vincent.

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By secretbruncher - Dec 6 2011

1/5

Walked pass this deli many times and always see it buzzing on Sundays. Promising right? Nope.
The menu offers a variety of brunch options, but the good points end just about there.
Service is atrocious, impolite, and slow. Took them over 20 minutes to deliver a coffee.
Food was extremely slow - and not even good, not worth waiting for at all! English breakfast was okay - the bacon and sausages were sub par quality (given Daylesford is next door they really should keep up the standards). Eggs were not done well. French toast was dry, and the streaky bacon were inedible.
To be honest if it was a pleasant place and the food was mediocre and foregettable we would have been pretty forgiving, the slow and obnoxious service made the whole Sunday brunch experience spoilt.
If you don't have the capacity/ skill to cover a full house, don't put that many tables in.