Tas (The Cut)

Crowded and we had to wait for our pre-reserved table. We had the shared menu, the starters were very good, but the vegetarian main was bland. Restaurant is very noisy and you sit very close to other diners. Don't go if you want a quiet place to talk...
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3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Friday, December 07, 2012

The food was colourless and overall unappetising.

The service was at best, rudimentary with little communication and overall glum attitude.

We were a group of six, and they decided to seat us downstairs, right at the back corner of the room. We were the last in the room of about four other tables to leave.

Two separate groups of staff sat at nearby tables and ate their staff meals whilst we were eating at the table next to them. Of course, I understand that the staff must eat at some point during the evening, but don't the management think what this must look like to their customers. Also, I felt that this put some pressure on us to 'hurry up and get out of here'!

And then, for the last approximately 15-20 mins, two other members of staff proceeded to start stacking up chairs to our immediate right, packing away for the night. Terrible service, and made us feel very uncomfortable, like WE were inconveniencing THEM. And we still had not fully finished our meal!

DEFINITELY NOT GOING BACK AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THE EXPERIENCE.
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1 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Friday, November 02, 2012

6 of us ate here on a Friday night recently & had a good if not wonderful experience. The food I would say is fair for its type - we shared our traditional starters which were much of a muchness and I followed with a lamb dish which was better. The portions are fairly generous and the staff were cooperative about keeping bread and olives topped up.

Service was not at all bad - a bit chaotic with at least 3 or 4 staff serving us at various times but overall it was ok.

The venue itself is a little cramped but has character although they need to monitor the music volume - at one point even though we were miles away from the speakers we were having to speak loudly to make ourselves heard.

Price was about GBP25-30 for shared starters, main, coffee & a couple of drinks. I was happy paying these prices but would be reluctant to pay any more.

Overall an unremarkable but pleasant eating out experience. Would I go back, yes, but would I seek it out specifically, probably not.
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Bootsy - View all reviews by this user
7 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Friday, February 17, 2012

Lovely food and location. I enjoyed the food and atmosphere there until my last visit.

On my last visit few days ago me and my friend ordered drinks for the table we were chatting to. The waitress came back after few minutes and told us that Manager will not allow to do it, and left the drinks on our table. The waitress was nice and friendly.

If one decides to buy a drink to the table he is chatting to it must be delivered without saying "We don't do that".

Yesterday I and few of my friends went there for a diner and when we sat on the table Manager said that he would not serve any drinks to our table. We decided to leave straight away.

It is absolute disgrace that such a lovely place is run by unprofessional Managers. Managers really need to acquire customer service skills, need to smile and learn some professional ethics.
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Fantome
7 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 7
Friday, February 10, 2012

Atrocious. Really no other word for it. The service was surly – have you ever known a waiter refuse a request for an ice bucket – and the food indescribable, not only because it was badly cooked, badly presented but also because you really didn't have a clue what you were eating!

My starter had a large piece of eggshell in it. Tasty. Then came my grilled seabass. Under normal circumstance, I would expect to see on my plate, a succulent fish, pearly white, that fell apart as your pressed it against the roof of your mouth with your tongue. not so this. It appeared to have been microwaved dry. You couldn't peel it from the skin and when I did manage to slice off a piece to eat, I wish I hadn't bothered.

I never, ever eat in fast food chains, but given the choice between a greasy burger bar and this place, the burger bar would win every single time.
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0 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

TAS is the best thing happened to me. I wished if i can have interior of my house like that. Food and services.....one can only wish. such class you dont find in five-star.
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Rashida
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

We have been in Tas with my wife. We both work in hospitality industry. We are quite intrested to taste new dishes and I can say we are quite good on it. We also have our favourites as you can not go wrong with those dishes where ever you go in the world. However Tas managed to suprise us with terrible tasteless foods, plus their service.

We asked for one of their set menu called "Renk". There were about 8-9 mezes and also a bottle of house white. The wine was amazing, crispy, fruity and well chilled.

However the food was terrible. There were triangular spring rolls which was not cooked that we would easily how many pastry paper were used. There was stuffed wine leaves which the leaves were not cooked. The leaves were more like newspaper's paper. There was kisir which supposed to be quite crispy and which supposed to have some fresh peppers and crushed nuts and tomatoes however it apeared as tomato sauce. Falafel was terrible as we could not even taste because of its smell. There was not any flavour on any of the food. There was also deep fried calamari which was more like a chewing gum. We could not beleive how they could manage to make a deep fried calamari terrible.

Anyway it did not take long that we decided to go somewhere else. So I asked for the bill as we just wanted to pay and go to one of our favourite restaurants near by called Sofra. Same cusine, slightly expensive however they at least serve nice foods. While I was asking for the bill I was extremely polite (as we work in the same industry I know it is not nice to get bad feedback) and explained the waitress that we were not happy with the food as we could only eat 2 dishes out of 8-9 of them. Anyway waitress came back and said that the manager will bring the bill. I just wanted the full bill, I did not ask for any discounts or anything (again it is really common in London in these casses to ask for discount).

A gentleman and a lady (seemed to be the manager) appeared on our table (later on we understood he was the owner). He told us that it is not respectful to say disgusting for the food as the God supplies these ingredients to the humanity (I do not think God work in your kitchen...). I was shocked and we were still extremely polite and was trying to explain that we did not say it was disgusting. He was insisting that we said that (I think he thinks their food is disgusting). He tried to teach us how we should behave to the God's foods. I told him that we did not came to get religion lesson from him. He again shocked me by saying that it is his place and he would decide how he would speak to the customers. I said that I never seen such a behaviour like that. Then he told us to leave the restaurant!!!

I could understand if there was a mistake happening but it needs to dealt well. This gentleman instead of coming and asking us what was wrong. He directly started to abuse us. I wish I could make a complaint about his abusement to a legal authority.

The second think I did not even want to speak to him and it was his choice really to come and abuse us. I did not even feel secure when he rushed to our table.

WE WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK AGAIN. I won't even pass from their pavement. Terrible experience, it ruined our day. Nobody deserves such a treatment, especially if you are a customer.

I could not understand how people give good feedback about these foods really. The restaurants pay fortunes to gourments to find the best flavours or balance of flavours. They do not leave it to God... But I don't think Tas needs that as they do not even know what flavour means... They should hire new chefs and should change the owner...
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kifidis
2 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 2
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Seems like quite a busy and popular restaurant, with decent reviews, so gave it a try. The complementary bread with yoghurt hummous was a welcome appetiser, but turned out to be the best bit. The starters the two of us shared, courgette fritters and falafel, were disappointing. The falafel were not too bad, but then no better than anything you would get out of the freezer section in a supermarket, the fritters sloppy and tasteless. A distinct lack of spice and flavour. And that the falafel were swimming in hummous showed a lack of imagination since we already had a lot of this on the table. The tiny bit of salad with the falafel was the nicest bit.

The mains were even more disappointing. The swordfish was swimming in a sloppy tomato sauce that seemed to have everything in it: onions, peppers, lemon, lime, cream and really did overwhelm what is not the sort of meat that deserves to be overwhelmed. The lambs kidneys with cous cous were better, except they were poorly prepared (cut in half and cores not removed) and there was an enormous amount of them: how anyone could eat what appeared to be something like six kidneys I am not sure. The waiter seemed surprised when I left more than half. Just because offal is cheap does not mean you need to overwhelm the diner with meat.

I do not think we ordered the wrong things in particular, as the next table's food looked similar: same condiments: red cabbage, chili sauce etc piled on top of the cous cous in a rather sloppy manner with no regard for overall flavour.

To me the restaurant had a particular "fast food" feel in that ready prepared items were just crammed together with meats. The swordfish particularly showed no attempt to make a tasty dish, but was overcomplicated and sloppy.

A lot of people seem to like this place but I was surprised at how poor it was. The dishes were so confused and overfaced the diner - (in the swordfish's case with onions: tonnes of them, and in the lamb's kidney's case with meat - there was what I would call twice a generous portion of meat there) - they do not seem to have been prepared by someone who knew how to cook. very well. Wasn't dear though.
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5 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Tuesday, March 01, 2011