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This large, white gallery space-cum-restaurant is perfectly suited to lunchtime dining (it's open for dinner on Fridays only), when the natural light coming through the windows shows it to best advantage. There's a nice atmosphere too, with pleasant staff and low-key background chatter.
The kitchen is mostly reliable, with only a dry beef burger disappointing on this visit. Own-made, and served with chorizo, cheese and gherkin, it tasted fine, but failed to meld into a delicious whole. A well-dressed leaf salad helped, as did slightly oily chunky chips. A further annoyance was that it was served on a narrow wooden board, so bits kept falling off.
However, everything else passed muster: an excellent and beautifully presented starter of smoked salmon with crab wrapped in pickled carrot, followed by well-flavoured roast cod with sticky rice and pak choi. Veg of the day, runner beans and peas, were fresh and buttery. Gin and tonic sorbet made a bracing dessert, but couldn't compete with a glorious chocolate fondant with macerated cherries and salted caramel ice-cream.
An unthreatening wine list has options by the glass, carafe and bottle. Note that on Thursdays, the menu is supplemented with a choice of steaks.
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What is 'following'?020 7357 0244
Breakfast served 8-11am, lunch served noon-3pm Mon-Fri. Dinner served 7-10pm Fri.
Main courses £9-£18.95. Set lunch £15 2 courses, £18.50 3 courses
Credit cards AmEx, DC, MC, V
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Tables outdoors ( 8, pavement ), Babies and children admitted ( high chairs ), Booking advisable, Separate room for parties ( seats 250 ), Available for hire, Disabled ( toilet )Delfina map
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Recently (Dec 2011) went here for a works meal. The venue itself is large and spartan. The food order had to be specified in advance from a menu which greatly speeded things. The seats were refreshingly well spaced, but this only emphasised the lack of food. The food was beautifully presented but small for the price. The bread was dry and unpalatable. My tagine was oddly served in three tiny bowls as if to say “never the twain shall meet”. The chips were great, if few in number but the sprouts were flavourless and hard. The leaf salad was fresh but forget the mashed potato. The deserts were divine. No milk was supplied with my tea, and it was impossible to attract a waitress. Perhaps this venue is better at dealing with smaller groups.
The wine choice and the food were both very nice, however it took over an hour and a half for our food to come and a further 15 mins for our bill to be bought over. No one came over to let us know why the food was late or check that our meal was ok once we got it. They were then very rude (including the manager) when we refused to pay the 'optional' service charge. All in all an expensive meal where the staff were rude/ not bothered and somewhere I would not go back to.
Some nice flavours, but the portions are far too small. We went on Valentine's Day and complained about the undercooked and cold potato. Although some of the staff were charming, the male waiter appeared to be disinterested and distracted, and we were left waiting over fifteen minutes for the bill. This place may have once been good, but the late 1990s Ikea-style decor, overpriced food and nonchalant staff suggest that it is not quite what it used to be.
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