Lemonia

I've been coming to Lemonia for the past 20 years and still find it to be the best Greek restaurant in London - in fact it is my ultimate favourite London restaurant. I relocated to Chicago a few years ago, but every time I come home to London, I always make a point of making a reservation at Lemonia. I am a little confused by the bad reviews below, but only because every time I've dined here I've not only experienced really friendly service by the waiters (I always go here after my hols in Cyprus and the waiters are always really excited to see my photos and talk to me about their own experiences of growing up in Cyprus), but great food, the meze included. It gets busy and noisy on weekend evenings, but to my mind that adds to the ambience of a lively, friendly restaurant with GREAT food. Many London restaurants are over-priced and disappointing, Lemonia never fails to impress me. it's also nice to do the occasional celeb spotting here! 10/10 for everything.
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Pip - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, January 04, 2008

How sad that people think that just because you think this place is well over rated that one is then accused of being a competitor. I can assure you that I do not run, work or own a Greek Restaurant. I just happen to be of Greek Cypriot origins who had a mother who was a fantastic cook and therefore know a good Greek Cypriot meal to a rubbish one. I'm also saddened that the tablecloth reference was completely misunderstood and taken out of it's context. All real Greek Cypriots would understand the reference to that. I am led to suspected that maybe the person who challenged my review has an invested interest in the restaurant to want to protect it's reputation so much.
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Hector John Ktorides
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Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Thursday, January 03, 2008

What a delicious treat to be taken to Lemonia for dinner by friends. The food was very good, the service fast and efficient and the ambience.....fabulous. Having travelled many times to London from our hometown of Vancouver, Canada this was by far, the most pleasurable and satisfying eatery in all of our past experiences in your lovely city.

Great food, great service, great atmosphere, great company = a great evening.

Thank you to the owner and his staff for their wonderful hospitality.
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Pamela Montgomery
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Love this place so much! Always good food and good fun to eat here.

Sad to see nasty reviews like the ones below. I am greek and truly rate the authenticity and quality of the food here. I can only assume they are written by competitors......

A table cloth is not a mark of a good restaurant!!!!!!!!
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Anna Chrysostomou
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Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Friendly Service, excellent food
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Nick
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Terrible food, terrible service.
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George Costantinou
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Monday, September 17, 2007

What is the big deal about this place? I went to test the food and the place out this afternoon with a view of holding our cival partnership reception there. I have heard people rave about how wonderful this place was and how it was the best greek restaurant in London. I am of Greek Cypriot origins and quiet frankly thought that this was truly one of the worst Greek Meals that I have ever had in my life. My partner and I had the Meze to get an idea of the food, the cold starters were ok but you can hardly go wrong with that. The rest was just simply awful and that included the impersonal service by the disinterested waiters who just placed the food in front of you without any form of eye contact. They didn't even ask if the food was ok, I guess they just presume that with the rave reviews that they seem to get that they don't need to. The restaruant was very impersonal and had a very 'get them in, get them out' feel about it. No tableclothes on the tables as one would expect in a Greek restaurant. I know it was trying to look trendy but I think it just makes it easy for them to get the next lot of customers round the table. There was no music of any form, the place lacked any form of atmosphere. Looking around at the people eating there it didn't suprise me that it gets the reviews that it does, it was full of middle class primrose hill sect who quite frankly wouldn't know a good Greek meal to a bad one. Karavas in Camden is a hundred times better than this, cheaper and with nice friendly people that run it. I would never go back to this dump of an insult of a Greek restaurant.
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Hector John Ktorides
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Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Wonderful Greek food, great athmosphere, happy smiling staff, really enjoyable lunch outside in the sunshine. Will definitely go back for evening meal next time in area.
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Geraldine O''Neill
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, September 15, 2007

EXCELLENT
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CHRISTOS KOURTIS
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Best Greek restaurant outside of Cypus/Greece............Almost as good as mum's home cooking !

Zac
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Zac Lazari
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, March 15, 2007