Sarastro

we visited sarastros last week whilst on a 4 day trip to London and found the experience incredible.The decor is unusual and an experience in itself. We found the service good the food excellent and the show after the show brilliant. I was with my 17 year old daughter who also loved it

we are back in London in October and will be booking there again
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mo thompson
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Monday, February 18, 2008

I went here on Boxing day thinking that I must visit this restuarant one day as I keep in walking past it. Got in a thought that the place was quite cool with the decor and individual. We ordered out starters and food and when we asked about the menu or questioned about the items, the waiter snapped at us. I know it is boxing day, but there was no need to be soo rude. We asked for a seafood platter and asked if it was a cold dish and he said 'Yes'. When the food came out, it was a hot and creamy dish. My friend's kebabs were basically meatballs with some plain rice and no sauce whatsoever. Dry, dry, dry. We asked them to take the food back and change it for the cold seafood platter and they did. It was worse than the dry meatballs. They charged £16.95 for this seafood salad of dressed crab, room temperature (Iceland) prawns and some iceberg leaves! Our group was very, very annoyed. We had to ask the waiters three times to bring us some sauce and eventually the manager brought it to us. The food was soo bland and flavourless and EXPENSIVE!

Tourist trap indeed...
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David
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 0
Saturday, February 16, 2008

I went to Sarastro with nine friends for dinner this week. To start with they do not even give you the choice to eat 'a la carte' when you go in a group, it has to be a set menu. The price of the set menu is far too expensive for the quality of the food The starters are alright but the main courses were very bad quality. The duck was disgusting, two of us ordered it and we couldn’t eat them. The rest tried them thinking we were exaggerating and they were shocked, it tasted like liver. The pancakes where tasteless and the chicken very oily and salty. I have been in the restaurant before an it wasn't great but not as bad as this time. The deserts are a bit of a joke as well, one piece of Turkish delights per person and a tray full of fruit that surely has been going around the tables for over a week. I absolute love the decor and atmosphere of the place but to be honest it is an absolute rip off.
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Law
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Food 0 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 0
Friday, February 15, 2008

The food is adequate...nothing to write home about...

I love the decor and it is priced well...

i have been for the xmas menu and the normal one and i prefer the xmas menu!
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Ketika Patel
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Food 4 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 5
Monday, January 28, 2008

Myself and 3 friends had a great meal with super atmosphere, excellent service.
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Wendy
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, January 26, 2008

I loved the food and the restaurant and thought the food was great. Staff were so helpful and the atmosphere was great. Loved everything about it, and its great value for money.
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gill downing
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, January 24, 2008

We dined there Saturday 12th Jan 2008 food was very good. Staff were helpful.

Have eaten here several times this time took friends with us. The decor is very unusual to say the least. They loved it. We ate the Pineapple it was delicious (the knives have a serated edge!!)

A Party of 8 from Dorset
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Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Sunday, January 13, 2008

I found the food at this restaurant excellent! I love fresh shellfish and the fish platter was well presented and absolutely gorgeous. I am planning on visiting the restaurant again shortly.
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Sarah
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Awful.

Cheap tasteless decor inside....who has crushed velvet serviettes? The Christmas menu I had was like a school dinner, but not nearly as nice. Bland dry turkey and bullet hard sprouts. It was beyond a joke. Our desert consisted of a huge massive platter of fruit, including a whole pineapple....with no knife to cut it???? This place is uttely random, I thought our table would float away at one point, seeing as it resembled some form of boat.

Tourist trap, that will always make a killing, but the food is barely edible.
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Sara Hampshire
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Food 1 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 7
Saturday, January 05, 2008

This restaurant looks nice but the food is awful. We went there on Saturday for the Christmas menu. Not sure how they could mess that up but they sure managed it. We all thought (5 people) the food was awful. The waiting staff dont seem to be able to speak english, thats if you can get one to come over to the table. We complained about the meal and the manager did take half price off of each set meal and offered a free drink as compensation.

The ladies toilets are located past the kitchen and are covered in graffiti.
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Food 1 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Monday, December 10, 2007