Bar Kick

This is potentially a decent place but badly let down by several things.

1. They reserve basically all the tables, so even if you go and most of the tables are empty, you can't get a seat. I repeat you cannot get a seat in this bar. It gets extremely full but they block off big areas of the bar for "pre-booked" reservations. So it's less like a bar and more like some kind of annoying club.

2. The staff are surly. Really, they look right down their noses at you and act like they're doing you a favour just by deigning to serve you. And while it's great that London is such a cosmopolitan city, staff really ought to have a decent enough grasp of English that they don't get your drinks order wrong three times. While being surly.

3. £4.60 for a cider. £4.60.

4. See point 3.

If you can deal with all that nonsense it's probably great.
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0 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Saturday, March 02, 2013

The food at Bar Kick really is a cut above the rest. A bar it may be, but bar food it is not! Considering the prices are so reasonable (mostly under £9) and the ingredients are all so fresh and delicious, I'm always surprised to see that the restaurant isn't constantly ram packed!! On the day I went for lunch last week there was a wonderful selection of a steak sandwich with chimichurri sauce and onions, a chick pea salad with grilled haloumi, roasted peppers and a tahini yoghurt dressing, a gloriously chilled gazpacho (one of the best I've ever tasted) and lamb and beef merguez sausages with a cous cous salad, with yoghurt and rose harissa ...with a choice like that, how was I supposed to choose!?!! Luckily I was with friends so got to taste a couple of dishes!!! As well as the daily specials, their kick classics are winners too. Massive hearty sandwiches with a decent side slad are all only £5.95, their Kick platter with a selection of cheeses, meats and olives are great for sharing and theres a good choice of side dishes and nibbles like olives, hummous, chorizo in wine...but marinated feta, cherry tomatoes & grilled bread for only £4.50 is my favourite! Go in and eat at Kick if you haven't before...you'll be "kicking" yourself that you haven't been eating there for years!!!
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Eva
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, July 02, 2010