Le Bouchon Breton

i don t understand all the comment bellow, they must have come on a wrong day. everything was excelent from the beginning to the end for a meal , cheaper then will be all thos terrible restaurant chains around city ! give it a try, it s worth it!!

a great evening , amazing food and great service!!

i went to eat at le bouchon breton. i must say. i don tunderstand the comments bellow, a lovely wines list. a large chooses classic french dishes, the food was amazing and a great, relax and attentive service.i ll go back......

Company Christmas lunch, the place half empty: drinks took about 25 to 30 min to arrive (we ordered only red and white wines - should be easy). Spirit mixture arrived with a wrong soft drink and took a while to replace (only one ordered for the whole table), and the bottle featured at the bar did not correspond to the drinks menu (Absolute does not come in odd bottles). Food pre ordered 2 weeks in advance (set menu of 3 options) took up to 40 min to arrive; flavours not exciting but no one complained of a stomach ache, so let's admit it is acceptable. £26 for a set menu of average quality; ordered French fries (right there, not 2 weeks before) and they never arrived. French restaurant which cannot get potatoes gratin right and serves salted butter? They are very good in taking quarter full bottles of expensive water away when pouring and the manager makes an eye contact when you say excuse me to ask something and walks away never to come back... Check your bill to make sure that the bottles you did not open are not charged for. Company cards, you will better off in many places, and looks like you are only the only kind of customer.

Doesn't even deserve 1 star. Staff rude, service painfully slow, food lukewarm - it would have been ok if piping hot but not worth the prices they are charging, and they certainly don't know how to make a rocquefort sauce. Items not ordered were added to bill, TopTable discount not added to bill. No apology for a consistently bad experience. Avoid this place. Apparently Michel Roux Jr is affiliated with this chain - I'd suggest he disassociates himself from this place asap...

This was not only my first visit to Le Bouchon Breton, Spitalfields - it was also the worst dining experience I've ever had.

We were faced with one disappointment after another and the whole evening was ridiculous.

Firstly, we had to ask three times before we were served water, eventually receiving it about 40 minutes after we'd sat down. Our wine finally arrived 45 minutes after we had ordered it. The main meal was also late coming, and before our starter too. The meal went back to kitchen and then 10 minutes later we were told our starter still hadn't been cooked so it was best we just ate our main. The staff did apologise at this point and offer us some complimentary wine... which we never saw. Some time later, our steak came back to the table but it was completely cold. Something we begrudgingly put up with because we were now very hungry and fed up, and also because it seemed far too difficult to get the attention of their neglectful staff. Feels good to pay a lot of money for cold meat and chips.

The final insult was being compensated by one free dessert. Six pounds profiteroles hardly sweetened the whole absurd experience of Le Bouchon Breton.

It was a shame this happened, this was a special treat for my friend and I, and we had been looking forward to the evening. What else is a shame is that we were initially excited by the restaurant and its menu - I remember thinking I would definitely come back, but that is now unlikely.

We were made to feel invisible, and even my later attempts to express my disappointment to this restaurant have been completely ignored.

This was one of the worst dining experiences I've ever had. I feel ripped off.
We arrived at 7:30pm on a Tuesday. Place was half full. We had the groupon offer for the Chateaubriand steak.

The waiter came to take our food order without even having taken our drink order. It took 20 minutes for the drinks to arrive. We ordered starters and the steak. The starters arrived 90 minutes later!!! I had the onion soup and it was ok, nothing special about it. The steak only arrived 9pm! And guess what? It was COLD, OVERCOOKED and TASTELESS. We sent it back. Manager came, apologized and brought a new one in less than 5 min. Now the steak was too rare and still tasteless, we didn't even bother at that point and we weren't hungry anymore.

We then ordered dessert, the tarte tatin, it was also just ok. Bill took over 20 min to come, restaurant was almost empty at that point. Our waiter said he could remove the service charge from the bill and said that nothing of it was passed to the waiters, it was all to the restaurant. We decided to remove it and gave him cash as he was the only one who was trying to make us feel better about the whose dinner fiasco. All other waiters just didn't care, the worst service in a restaurant, the worst meat I've ever tasted and so overpriced. I would never come back (not even with a 80% discount from groupon) so not worth it. Do not go.

Had a fab meal on Saturday using a Groupon voucher deal. Food was superb and service was second to none. The Chateaubriand was 'melt in the mouth' - can't wait to go back.

Absolutely shambolic restaurant. Lots of staff with none of them quite knowing what they are doing. Long waits and pretty ordinary food.

Sunday buffet lunch extremely disappointing. No hot food when we arrived, and cold when it did arrive. Beef was burnt, soup was tasteless, staff were surly and chaotic. People milling around everywhere. Avoid.

Had a very much below average food with below average service for far above average price Sunday lunch at Le Bouchon Breton. I don't even know why I agreed to pay for the meal .... They should have paid me for wasting my calorie budget on such a mediocre experience.