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126 Drury Lane, WC2B 5QG Full details & map

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By Time Out Editors Posted: Jul 23 2010

Named after a character from Mozart's The Magic Flute, this flamboyant restaurant continues the operatic theme with ten individually styled opera boxes, velvet drapes, theatrical props and other colourful frippery. Food is Mediterranean-Turkish, but the big draw here are the opera and string quartet performances on Monday and Sunday evenings, and Sunday lunchtimes, featuring singers and musicians from the nearby ENO and Royal Opera House, along with students and rising stars. The three-course Opera menu (£26.50) offers the likes of boreks for starters, followed by roast duck with plum sauce, slow-cooked shank of lamb or vegetarian crêpes, then baked pumpkin in spicy syrup or fresh fruit; there's also an à la carte menu.

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Tags: Restaurant, Central, Covent Garden

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Sarastro details

Address

Sarastro

126 Drury Lane WC2B 5QG

Transport Covent Garden or Holborn tube

Telephone

020 7836 0101

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Meals served noon-11pm Mon-Thur; noon-11.30pm Fri, Sat; noon-10.30pm Sun

Main courses £9-£16.50. Set lunch (noon-6.30pm Mon-Sat) £14.50 2 courses. Set meal £29.50 3 courses incl coffee

Credit cards AmEx, DC, MC, V

Facilities

Babies and children welcome ( high chairs ), Booking advisable, Disabled ( toilet ), Entertainment ( opera, string quartet 8.30pm Mon, 2.30pm & 8.30pm Sun; swing & Motown vocalist 8pm Wed or Thur )

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Comments & ratings 1/5 (Average of 1 rating)

By frances@planbwebsites.com - Sep 17 2011

Good food, great entertainment, friendly staff

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By lesley harbron - Jun 11 2011

I rate this highly - also dined at the now closed papageno twice. Food fab. Interior out of this world. Staff great.

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By Suzanne - May 23 2011

1/5

Just terrible. Absolutely appalling on all levels. The staff were rude and unhelpful right from the start of the evening. Claimed we didn't have a reservation, despite us calling the day before and even providing credit card details. They brought food to the table (and refused to remove it) before we'd even seen a menu, ordered drinks and before even all our party had arrived! Drink orders were missed, wrong and then forgotten (juice was watered down squash). To say the food was bland would be a compliment, it was worse than bad pub food, with grey vegetables and reconstituted potato...just really bad. Table setting was sloppy and non-existent with things just thrown on the table randomly. The table clothes and napkins were tired, worn, and dirty (and crushed-velvet napkins, weird). Decor is interesting certainly, and really could have been fun, if the reality of it wasn't that you are squished in tables unable to move, sitting on uncomfortable benches. For a restaurant with a decent price tag associated with it, it was absolutely a let-down and I would advise people to AVOID. Hands down my worst dining experience of 3 years in London.