Pied a Terre

went for the du jour menu for lunch (24.50) yesterday, simply amazing. Started out with nice canapes of foie sandwich, watermelon and feta, fried gnocchi. then had tuna tartare which was nice and refreshing, good size. main was slow cooked lamb cooked perfectly! and dessert i had the yogurt and vanilla mousse, but it was 7.50 more. But in total it was 32 pounds for four nice courses. i don't think any other 2 star restaurant has that in london. would definitely be going back
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10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, August 21, 2009

The food is simply outstanding. I went with my wife from Greece on her birthday, a beautiful and intimate place. The stuff was very attending and at the same time very discrete. A better job could be done with the amuse in order to reach the level of the food. We ordered scallops and oysters for appetizer and they were just excellent. The main course was outstanding, turbot, complimented with calamari staffed with crab. The deserts were also very nice. The atmosphere was great. I would suggest this restaurant to anyone how would like to taste extraordinary food and feel a lot of chef’s love packed in each dish. Congratulations
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DIMITRIS KARAGIANNIS - View all reviews by this user
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Took my other half to Pied A Terre for his belated B'day celebration last Saturday. We went for the Menu Degustation which was nice. The evening was enjoyable up to the dessert. When we finished eating our dessert, the waiter asked us whether we wouldn't mind if they served coffee and petits fours in their bar area so that they could use the table for other customers. I was surprised by the request since I made sure that I could have the table for the whole evening when I booked the restaurant (as I knew about their 2.5hours table turnaround policy for their standard A la Carte menu). However, I let my other half decide what he wanted since it was his special evening. He said to the waiter that he didn't mind so the waiter took us to the bar area for coffee & petits fours. The bar area was empty and not convivial at all. There was a waiter who was cleaning the glasses behind the bar and funny enough he wasn't the one in charge of preparing the coffee. We waited 50 minutes for the coffee to arrive! In fact, my other half was getting annoyed and was about to go to the restaurant area to let the waiter know his dissatisfaction. The waiter behind the bar saw that and offered to go downstairs to tell our waiter about the coffee! When our waiter came with the coffee, my other half told him how dissatisfied he was about being booted in the bar area and then had to wait for 50 minutes to get the coffee. Our waiter was apologetic however I still find this situation very unacceptable for a 2 starred Michelin restaurant. When we left the restaurant, we passed by the table where we had dinner earlier on and to our astonishment, not only they didn’t have new customers at that table but also the table wasn’t dressed! This meant that we could have had our coffee at our table all along!

This whole experience about having to wait 50 minutes to have coffee & petits fours served at the bar area was a real put off. Even worse when we found out that we could have had our coffee at our table where the atmosphere was much more convivial than the bar area.

Comparing to our 1st visit at Pied A Terre 18 months ago, it seems that the restaurant has become greedy and wants to maximise the number of services they can squeeze in one evening. It is very disappointing and unacceptable for a Michelin starred restaurant as the bill does not come cheap.
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Kim
6 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Tuesday, May 19, 2009