My Old Dutch (Holborn)

I went on a sunday evening and there was only a small number of people in when I sat down. I ordered the greek savoury pancake which cost around £9.50. The waiter said I had made a good choice. When it came out it was huge covered in Aubergine, Feta, Halloumi and tomato and was delicious. I had made a good choice and would highly recommed this pancake to anyone.

I also sampled one of the fruit beers opting for the banana beer - tasted like banana a bit too sweet for me but it's something different to try. The service was fine and reasonably priced. Over all I had a very good experince there and intend to happily eat their again in the near future.
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James
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 9
Monday, September 19, 2011

Visited "My Old Dutch" in Holborn today for a quick lunch and I must say I am very disappointed. I had a savoury pancake 'Chilli con carne with guacamole, sour cream and tortilla chips'. The pancake itself was as if soaked in oil and the filling wasn't well seasoned and needed quite a bit of salt and pepper. The meal was huge (can be a little bit too big for one person) but pricey as the 'pleasure' cost me over £10 (just the pancake, no drinks). The presentation of the meal was rather poor, the filling was on an unfolded pancake, so it was pretty much a pile of meat with sauce over a pancake with some tortilla chips on the side of the plate and two dips. I also did not feel welcome in the restaurant, the staff ignored me for about 10 minutes before attending to me (also nobody attended to me as I finished my food so I asked if I could settle my bill when walking out of the restaurant). The waitresses were mostly busy talking to each other, not paying attention to the customers which I found appalling! Definitely not going back.
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3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 2
Friday, July 29, 2011

Nice decor and atmosphere at this restaurant but i would say to steer clear of the savoury pancakes and they taste awful but the sweet pancakes are great, expensive and too big to eat yourself but i do not know any restaurants that do sweet pancakes this tasty, this size and the variety of flavours.
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Hardy84 - View all reviews by this user
7 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 7
Friday, September 10, 2010

I have just returned from a friend's birthday at The Old Dutch and would never go back again. The service wasn't great as there was a ten minute gap from the first person receiving their food and the last. The staff were friendly and brought out my friends birthday cake singing at the tops of their voice which was a nice touch.

The problem is the food. It just isn't very nice. We all had savoury pancakes thankfully avoiding such shockers as the chicken curry pancake, chilli con carne pancake and lamb stew pancake which appear on the menu. I had the house special which was awful, my girlfriend had an italian which was worse and the person sat next to me left with "the cheese sweats". No one out of the fifteen people finished their food.

If you have to go to The Old Dutch then have a sweet pancake as the savoury pancakes are terrible. If you can avoid The Old Dutch then please do.
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Harry Redknapp
3 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Monday, April 19, 2010

Went to the one in Kensington. I ordered the banana and nuts pancakes and asked them to hold the ice cream and chocolate sauce (I was having breakfast not dessert). I was surprised to be charged the full price instead of a more reasonable price for having not had the full deal. Tasted great but would not return for that reason. Also was never asked for a coffee refill.
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Mickey
3 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 0
Monday, February 15, 2010

Although the service was good and the staff friendly the food was horrible. I have been to Amsterdam and had pancakes there and this is cheap and failed effort to replicate that.

It was really poor quality and very salty. We ordered three and tried them all and they were all really bad. The pancakes were so big we couldn't finish them and they got cold before even finishing half of it. It was covered in the poorest quality mozzarella I had ever tasted. Although I paid £10 for my pancake, I am sure it took less than 50p to make and that was obvious from tasting it.

To make up for it, we ordered some waffles but they were hard as biscuits and slightly burnt. It was supposed to come with nuts, but it was probably just one nut broken into ten pieces. The cream was really poor quality.

I am never going back again and warned my friends as well.
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Ruth
4 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 0
Saturday, December 19, 2009

This is one of the worst restaurant I had never been in this year!

The favour of the pancake was alright, but to be honest, the size was a too big. If you really want to eat in this restaurant, you better order one pancake for two persons.

When we first receive our pancake order, all of our friends was excited about the size and looking forward to taste the first bite. After 15 mins, we start feeling really full, while there are still more than half of the pancake still left on the plate. At last, we try to laugh who can finish them, and every one was trying to persuade the others to eat their pancakes. Haha..we felt so qulity not finishing them.

Anyway, the services was not good. The manager of this Holborn restaurant was rude and did not allow us to share a cake for our birthday girl. We tried to sing a birthday song for my friend, but the whole atmosphere was sad, as we were forced to leave the restaurant, as they don't want to serve extra plates and forks for our birthday cake.

Anyway, I love eating out, but there are more pancake restaurant choices in London, this restaurant should be the last one you should choose.
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Peter Sun - View all reviews by this user
3 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 5
Saturday, November 21, 2009

This place is amazing, cheap lovely tasting food, all at a great price, ive been going here for years, its my fave place to eat in london. ive taken all my friends and they all agree that my old dutch is simply delicious.
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8 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The savory pancake was salty and dry, really terrible but the dessert ones looked good. Not very impressive at all i would never go back.
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Brianna
4 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Saturday, September 26, 2009