Spread Eagle

An all round miserable experience - the food was expensive, mediocre and the portions would not fill a five year old. The staff were aloof, unfriendly and generally inattentive - we had to look for our waitress twice! There are so many nice places to eat in Greenwich, don't waste your money going here unless you are dippy anorexic millionaire.
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Teresa Nash
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Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 0
Thursday, October 09, 2008

I have to admit that I haven't been there for three years but I have no plans to return.

My wife and I had a very pleasant, but too expensive, meal about five years ago so we returned for a celebration I had...leaving a job which I detested and so wanted somewhere reliable to eat.

We had a fair meal but it was more expensive than on the previous occassion and not as good, I wouldn't have grumbled at paying £60 for what we had but at over £100 it was a rip off. We go to wonderful chateau restaurants on day trips to France and pay about £100 for the pair of us and our two teenage children so I really know what I want for that sum of money for two!!

I didn't like the overly fussy service being asked frequently whether everything was fine, my glass being topped up for me and the bottle whisked away. I didn't like the 15% service charge being added to the bill with the expectation that the money would be paid to the proprieter like that. It became awkward when I said that I was happy to pay the charge and that I wanted to pay it separately so that the staff get to share it for themselves rather than the owner having control of it. This says something about the management of the place which I don't like.

I walk past it frequently and really don't like the look of the interior since it has been "tarted" up. It was cosy and intimate before, now it's plain unpleasant.

Living locally I know several people who avoid the place for much the same reasons as above. If you want a fairly decent meal and don't mind paying through the nose for it then you'll be happy. There's a restaurant about 5 minutes walk away which will cost you £55 for two including wine and will give you a meal almost on a par with what you'd get at The Spreadeagle but it would be unfair of me to say where.
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Tony.
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Food 7 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 2
Monday, October 06, 2008

Thought we would try this as there as a sign outside advertising Sunday lunch - what it failed to say was that it was lunch for hobbits and even they would have left feeling empty. A piece of potato about the size of a 50 pence and two similar size pieces of lamb - the whole meal was eaten in about two mouthfuls! The staff were snooty and inattentive, we had to look for a waitress to ask for the wine menu as not even this had been offered to us when we sat down. An unpleasant, expensive experience. Unless you are an anorexic millionaire, avoid at all costs!
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Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Nice room, lovely waiting staff, terrible, terrible food. Really, really bad. My gazpacho was green water with cucumber chunks and the butternut squash ravioli tasted as though someone had dropped a whole salt cellar in the pan. Couldn't help overhearing the chap on the next table complaining that his cod had the consistency of rubber. He simply couldn't cut it. Overpriced and obviously an over-ambitious menu for an undertrained kitchen staff. I would not go back.
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Food 0 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 0
Saturday, September 13, 2008

just another inc group venue

don't know if anybody is going to say stop to this company buying every venue in greenwich and making it into good looking, expensive and nothing to come back for eating places.

we went there for a friday evening with my girl friend and we both had over cooked scallops for start, bacon was good, cod is nice and tasty but toooo small

i do not think food deserve to be paid this much for what it is . will not go back
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steve
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Food 5 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 4
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Went here for wedding anniversary as had been 2 years before and liked it. As it was a Monday evening it was very very quiet so hard to tell what the atmosphere was like other than..well... very quiet.

Food was OK - nothing to write home about, and given that we were charged 107 pounds for 3 courses, two glasses of champagne, two bottles of water and no wine, we both thought that in future we would be better off going to better restaurants in town where for a similar fee you get much better food and service.
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Graham
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Food 5 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Dinner for four at The Spread Eagle last night (12 August) was faultless. The service was impeccable - restrained and courteous. The food was judged by all to be of a high standard and imaginative - take scallops, cooked to perfection, on a cauliflower mousseline; or succulent pink lamb with piperade.

The wine list is short (a virtue compared to the ludicrous encyclopaedias offered by some restaurants) but cleverly chosen to give something for all. The Condrieu we chose to accompany our starters (Domaine du Montheillet) was epic - it gets my vote for the best white wine drunk so far this year.

The dinner was to celebrate a 50th birthday for someone who lives out of Town. The location in Greenwich was a welcome change from the hubub of central London. This being a Tuesday night in August, the restaurant was quiet, but with enough clientele to give a little atmosphere.

Try and find time to watch the river flow, with a pre-prandial at The Trafalgar on Park Row.
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Trevor
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

very good food and good value for money for good quality fish and meat they have,i had tuna as a starter which was very fresh and tasty which is what i would expect if i pay 10 £ for a starter then my partner had scallops again very well cooked and fresh ,i had beef as a main course and my partner had the cod good portions and good cooking well done job at sread eagle. even though they did not have the wine we requested service was good too, i happily paid the service charge for them
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steve
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Food 10 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Monday, July 07, 2008

For some reason I've never been to this place, despite eating out in Greenwich quite a lot. The food was pretty unpretentious French tarted up a bit. At £29 the three course menu was pretty good value with each dish doing well, particularly my steak main.
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Tony Cavaldoro
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Monday, April 14, 2008

Took my Mum here for her birthday, party of 6, and had a lovely table upstairs. Service, ambience, food and wine were superb. A very fine restaurant that made you feel entirely comfortable. Had the scallops to start and they were delicious, easily the tastiest I have had in a long time. Cod for mains and again, stunning. Finished with the cheese selection which was the perfect end to a wonderful meal. Will be coming here again and again.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Monday, March 31, 2008