North Pole Piano Restaurant

For my dad's birthday i thought i'd take him out for a treat, and so i surfed the net to find a restaurant in greenwich. the search came back with a few restaurants, so i thought i will read the reviews first before i book a table. And i decided to go for the North Pole Restourant and i tell you it wasthe best decision i have ever made as the food was briliant, the service perfect, the wine menu was full of choices and ambience was excellent including the fish. the Chandelier is somthing to look at. anyway dont take my word for it just give it a try yourself.
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Erin
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

LET'S CLEAR THIS UP..... This is a very good restaurant where they serve excellent food with excellent service. I am notoriously hard to please when eating out but was refreshingly pleased with my experience at the North Pole. The pianist played The Best of Magic FM which made for a good game of "name that tune". Other reviewers mistakenly commented on the chavvy bar downstairs which is obviously not the restaurant. The music from downstairs could only be heard at the very end of the night and in no way interfered with what was an otherwise pleasant ambiance. I had the duck which was well cooked with a truly delicious honey sauce. The sea bream is also well recommended. The sticky date pudding was also richly wonderful. The meal for two came to a little over fifty pounds for two which was reasonable as it's easy to pay slightly less in London for food half as good.
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Jules
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Sunday, January 20, 2008

We visited the North Pole on Friday 21st December for our xmas party and had a really good time. It's an excellent party venue but imagine it would be equally as good for a romantic night out. The thing that attracted my law firm to book was that because there were 18 of us we needed somewhere that we could have a complete night out without the need to move to another venue.

The North Pole is exactly that. We booked the VIP room first on the ground floor for drinks and then headed upto the swanky restaurant on the first fllor. The food was very good. The turkey was the best I've ever had! The whole party were very happy and apart from one wrong order (which was very quickly replaced) the meal went very smoothly - we were actually surprised at this becasue the place was really busy.

Back down to the disco in basement after the meal and we stayed till 2am - all of us a little worse for wear! We've already concluded that we are going back next year though- much better than many of the establishments in the town centre owned by one group. The guys there did a good job of looking after us and we just wanted to say thanks from all of us.

Morgan Stanley and Associates
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Morgan Stanley and Associates
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, January 11, 2008

I visited the North Pole bar yesterday with two friends for lunch. We sat in the downstairs bar and ordered a bottle of wine and some pitta bread with dips to share whilst looking over the menu deciding what to subsequently order.

The pitta bread unfortunately took 45 minutes to arrive. I went up to the bar to check on when we would receive the food twice, once just to make sure we hadn't been forgotten and the second to see if we were actually going to get any food. As we were only having a piece of pitta bread I was at a bit of a loss as to why it had taken so long.

The man behind the bar was rude and when I asked how long the food would be replied with "how long is a piece of string". A very useful response.

The bar manager came over a while later and offered us a free glass of wine each which was nice however I think he was a little dismayed that it took so long for the bread to arrive.

We were planning to spend the afternoon in there but this situation made us leave and go to another venue.

I would not be returning there - very dissapointing experience from somewhere which could potentially be very good.
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V Daly
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The food was reasonable but not up to the standards expected. I visted this restaurant regularly when I used to live in Greenwich a few years ago. It has since changed hands so I was keen to see how it had developed.

A very disappointing experience!! The much-vaunted atmosphere was nowhere to be found. Service is slow and surly.

The downstairs bar might aspire to sophistication but on our visit seemed to be full of hairdressers and estate agents tanked up on alcopops and cheap lager.

The whole place seems to me all style and no content.

On the plus side - at least the wine list was good.
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Food 4 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 3
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

I (26) and my girlfriend (26) went for our anniversary, and a demi of champagne awaited us! Great service throughout, and the even the bread at the start of the meal was special. It was a little quiet early on, but gets busier later on, and the piano player was great. The food was wonderful - we don't dine out often, and even less often in special venues like this, so we found the food just amazing, and the wine was excellent, and we could even tell the quality without having to be wine buffs. Plus you don't need to be a connoisseur to know my steak was the best I've had, and everything simply melted in the mouth.

If you can ignore the sounds of the bar downstairs once their music gets going (quite late on in the night - which is audible, but not distracting, especially with the piano in full swing), it's a perfect romantic venue, we'll certainly be back at the next special occasion!
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Jo
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I (27) took my boyfriend (29) here for a romantic meal based on the positive comments on this site and others. It was very important to me to find somewhere very nice and I spent about 2 weeks searching through all different kinds of restaurants and reading reader reviews. The 50% off the food menu on Sunday was an added bonus and (I hate to admit) was the deciding factor between this restaurant and two others.

I was sorely disappointed. The piano isn't played on Sundays. The restaurant was dead, there was just us and another couple who were sat right next to us, so it was a bit uncomfortable. The food was OK, but nothing worth writing home about. The music CD they were playing (Frank Sinatra etc) skipped a few times and they had to change it. The service was appallingly slow and we had to ask twice to get our bill. When there are only two tables to serve, you can only wonder what the staff were doing when they were out of sight!

A live band started up downstairs at approx 9pm, the music then wrestled with the music of the restaurant.

All in all a very disappointing visit. I'm not one to complain and generally enjoy myself wherever I go, but I felt I should warn others, that if you are thinking of going here, I wouldn't bother.

It's also, perhaps, worth noting that the restaurant is a ten minute walk from Greenwich station and the 'cocktail bar' is nothing more than a chav-tastic set-up with sports screens adorning the walls.

We both agreed that our modest picnic in Greenwich Park during the day was by far more enjoyable and won't be returning to the North Pole.
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Marie-Claire
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Food 6 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I can’t tell you how disappointed I was with my experience at the North Pole Piano Restaurant. I had browsed on the London Eating site only a short while for restaurants in the Greenwich area before coming across the North Pole. Rave reviews with 9s out of 10s on all fronts and an impressive website! I was really quite excited. On arriving at the restaurant I told myself not to judge a book by its cover. Square Meal does warn not to be put off by the ‘rather hit & miss ground-floor bar’ but the separate entrance to the restaurant closed, meant we found ourselves walking through the neon lit outfit and up the staircase and it only got worse. The starters were measly but indisputably tasty and although our main courses filled a hole, everything seemed to be accompanied by the same sauce and strange ‘lentils mix’? The staff were pleasant but useless, I found myself circling the restaurant twice to ask where our bottles of wine were, both times struggling to find any assistance and no apologies made on either occasion. On my walk round the restaurant I was also surprised to see how empty it was for a Friday night. There were only two other bookings and the place massively lacked atmosphere contrary to feedback given. All in all our experience was less than satisfactory and hugely overpriced. I won’t be going back and seriously question who posted the previous feedback and the integrity of the London Eating site.
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Natasha
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Food 5 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 3
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The best in London. Excellent price and excellent food. I was recommended by the lawyer from the States, George Conley. 10 out of 10. I even met my future bride there. Is that good or bad??

John from the Italian Embassy
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John Lippre
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Monday, March 12, 2007

Went here with friends on a Sunday; took advantage of the 50% off offer on this website. The food was delicious; one of those rare ocassions where everyone enjoyed their food. Decor and atmosphere great, friendly service. Refreshingly different from other Greenwich restaurants. Give it a go.
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Lauren
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Saturday, February 24, 2007