Oslo Court

We love this place! The food is fantastic. Always well cooked and presented, The staff are welcoming, friendly and attentive. We have never been disappointed (only when they are full and we cant get a table!). The dessert gentleman is very funny and delightful. They roll the menu off their tongue with great polish and knowledge, we dont know how they remember it all. Well done you are a credit to the restaurant business - we will definitely be back.
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Paul and Rose from London
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, August 22, 2008

My name is Stafford & last night I visited Oslo Court with my fiancée Lisa as a surprise for our three year anniversary.

We entered a block of flats where there was a door to the right of the lobby leading into the restaurant. We were walking back into time, salmon was the colour theme with floral curtains and staff dressed in dinner suits with bow ties. We were shown to our table which had a nice outlook to the front. We ordered our drinks and were given vegetable dips along with a roll and toast. Word of advice, don’t eat too much of these as there's loads more to come! The waitress also listed a range of specials not on the menu for starters and main course to choose from.

Lisa & I shared deep fried mushrooms to start in garlic sauce which were very nice & smoked salmon and prawns, all very nicely presented and great portions. Half hour later out came the main courses, stuffed chicken & a t bone steak. This was accompanied by a selection of vegetables and potatoes. My steak was one of the best I had tasted, very tasty and again the portion was more than ample. Lisa's chicken was succulent. Then there was the dessert waiter, wow..a comic, very entertaining and made the evening superb. He asked what we like and took care of the rest.

Out came four desserts...bread and butter pudding (this was my personal preference), crème brulee, chocolate cake & finally a strawberry dessert. If we weren’t full before, we certainly were now! We finished off with tea/coffee accompanied by various chocolates. We left feeling very full and satisfied, a lovely evening and a great dining experience.
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Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

I went to Oslo Court a couple of weeks ago and the memory still makes me smile.

The restaurant isn't really that hard to find, despite previous reviews I had read, although it is a slightly strange location, in a block of flats essentially.

The greeting we received when we arrived from the flamboyant dessert waiter was delightfully camp. The place was quite empty when we arrived but it soon filled up to capacity, and with food like this it's easy to see why.

My partner was slightly alarmed to hear it was a fixed £40 for the meal - we couldn't just have a couple of courses, but I didn't mind at all!

The menu comprises of comfort food done well - food from our youth, classic dishes that some food snobs might think cheesy. Aside from the number of choices in the menu, the waitress gave us a long list of specials, and then advised that they could alter any dish to our specification.

I chose avacado and prawns with seafood sauce. The avacado was so soft and the sauce was delicious. I then ordered beef wellington based on a review I had read, and it was fantastic. Beautifully cooked meat, just the right amount of pastry. By this point I was pretty full. I'd already eaten the crudites with delicious aioli, and the gorgeously buttery rolls before my starter arrived.

So I was very full, but due to my own greed and the generous portions. I asked for a pause before dessert, but then a fruit pavlova arrived. I was groaning but I ate it and it was very good.

The meal cost £120 for two with a nice bottle of wine, including service.

I struggled home with a heavy stomach, but it was well worth it. I would definitely recommend Oslo court for delicious comfort food, good service and a funny step back in time.
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jacstar - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Thursday, June 05, 2008

My name is Valere and I went last week to the Oslo Court Restaurant.

I have to say that this is the best London restaurant by miles. The main point of this all family business is their generosity.

They are absolutely marvelous and I recommand this place at any time.

I had seafood salad (SUPERB) follow by steack Diane which was fanatstic as usual.

I don't even mention Neil as he is all ready a Star, I do not say who is he, just go and see by your own eyes. A True Gentlemen. I love him.

the service is still very good even with the lost of their previous High profile Sommelier: a French man. Best London Restaurant.
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Valere
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

It's a pretty quirky place and maybe not to everyone's taste but I love it. The food isn't cutting edge but there's a fantastic choice, it's always well cooked - I'm yet to have a bad meal. There's no a-la-carte, it's £29 per head for lunch and £38 for dinner plus there's a couple of add ons if you go for lobster - the ladies menu doesn't have any prices on. Book weeks in advance and plan to spend at least three hours here. The staff are superb - friendly, colourful but never fawning.

It maybe an odd setting (the ground floor of a small block of flats), the decor may be a little strange (1920s brothel) but please, please don't change a single thing. You want to show your parents that you love them - bring them here.
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John
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Thursday, May 22, 2008

I cant understand these reviews as shown. You have to book 2 weeks in advance for weekends. Its the best value and food in London today. It always has been good. We have been going there when we come to england from San Diego each year. The standard has never changed. The dessert waiter and food are terrific.
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monty silverstone
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Sunday, May 18, 2008

The only things that are ridiculous are Mimi's comments. The food is invariably excellent and I just happen to enjoy prawn cocktails!
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JohnB
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Sunday, May 18, 2008

These reviews are hilarious! But I guess someone's has to go to this place...

First of all Oslo Court is described as a Modern European restaurant. I could not find anything modern about it. I felt like a little girl in Italy in 1984...

The average age of the patron is 120, the food completely old fashioned and tasteless and the surroundings.... I was left speechless. The entire restaurant seems to swim in a salmony-peachy colour.

The menu is ridiculous: who has prawn cocktail on their menu in 2008?

Anyway, we had a great laugh since we felt like we were inside a mausoleum - with the exception of the totally over the top dessert waiter.

Go, but eat either beforehand or after cause you can't eat there, that's for sure.
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Mimi
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Food 1 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 4
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Oslo court tips a wonderfully camp wink to grand hotel restaurants of the 1970's with a menu that has, I imagine, changed little in years. Just finding the place is interesting to say the least as it nestles discretely on the ground floor of a 70's apartment block which, were it not in the swanky St John's Wood, might well have you swapping your lounge suite for one of the Kevlar variety.

Once in you’re greeted by an overwhelming gush of bonhomie, whether it's the swirly pink decor (this place is swathed like a Barbera Cartland fantasy) or the many attentive and thickly-accented waiters. The warmth is rather wonderful though and definitely part of the experience and testament to this is the fact that this place is nearly always packed. Apart from a few rather meek couples secreted towards the edges of the restaurant the tables were mostly large and full of well heeled family gatherings giving the place a buzzy New York Italian feel. Such is the sense of occasion here that birthday cakes emerge from the Kitchen on a regular basis to the sound of ‘Happy Birthday’ and a dozen fizzing candles. Any more theatrical and you'd expect Christopher Biggins to waft in grinning from ear to ear, and guess what, the night we were there he did, hysterical!

So to the food, and its obvious that you do not come here hoping to glimpse the new frontiers of gastronomy. Indeed those in search of 'Heston Bloomenthal' style quantum cooking may find Olso Court a bit more of a strings and pulleys kind of place. However, old fashioned is not always out of place and when done well, as it is here, the artery clogging sauces and Roman size portions are deliciously executed. They also form part of the welcome. There's something genuinely comforting about these old-style dishes like prawn cocktail, onion soup, steak Diane, veal schnitzel, and they make a distinct contribution to the feel of the place. Indeed, for the same reason you wouldn’t want your mother serving minimalist pan-Asian fusion dishes for Sunday lunch the menu here seems to fit perfectly.

By the time desert arrived our large table was in a state of food induced euphoria, shouting across the frenetic activity of the bustling dining room and laid-out from the huge portions. Then comes the next surprise, just when you think your senses have been crushed by over-indulgence and your waistband is really starting to chafe, the desert waiter arrives. This man was hysterical, across between Dale Winton and Zha Zha Gabour. He hawked the unremarkable deserts like exquisite creations with all the zeal of a shopping channel presenter. It completely worked though, despite our fullness, and fearing that every dish was down to the last portion we rattled off our choices like frenzied sale shoppers and completely forgetting we were unable to move only moments ago.

All in all this place is a lot of fun and does the job of a family occasion perfectly. The difficulty in getting a table here must mean that despite its retro style and cooking the place really does offer you something unique. It's also good value but let's be honest probably not the place for a date or anyone with heart problems. The age of the regulars tells its own tale, and we heard a wonderful, maybe apocryphal, story about someone trying to book years ago who was told with no hint of irony, "we're completely full but why don't you ring on the day as one of our regulars may have died." If you ate here every day then who knows? but Oslo Court has so much charm that you'd at least keel over with a huge satisfied grin on your face.
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Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Friday, May 02, 2008

We had our wedding reception lunch in "The Oslo", and for us to comment without coming across as overly enthusiastic would be extremely difficult. The attention to detail, from greeting you all the way through to presenting you with the cheque, is extremely hard to fault. I am now in the 34th year of being a patron of this restaurant, and it is tremendously hard to recall an instance that, in any way, spoiled any visit. The lady owner before Tony, Gwen, was an expert in ensuring your stay went according to plan, and Tony, his daughters, Neil ( Sweety ), the waiters and kitchen staff, all work tirelessly to ensure you enjoy your visit, be it your first or your hundreth ! If you can find better value, i won't believe it.
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Terence O''Connor
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, March 23, 2008