Blakes

The food was average although excited to go as a recommendation from one of us who has been regularly. The service was appalling. We asked for the wine glasses to be removed three times until they were. The salmon for starters was so fishy and was definitely not fresh it had to be returned. There was no apology. The wait after the starters for main course was about a half an hour to 40 minutes wait. The potato souffle with caviar which came in a tiiiny little glass was served to us with spoons too big to fit and when asked for smaller spoons the staff seemed annoyed. The staff made the whole experience really uneasy and uncomfortable as they were rude, talking about us the whole time when we could hear everything!

It was six of us girls and when the bill came we checked it thoroughly only to find out... They had ADDED 3 extra bottles of evian 2 coca colas 1 martini 2 glasses of wine... all of which we never had. We kindly told the waiter who disappeared for about 20 minutes only to come back handing the bill back to us with not one word of apology. When we asked if it was all sorted out all he replied was, "You tell me." I have never ever EVER been to such a restaurant of that class where the waiters and waitresses are SO rude.

After the bill was paid we immediately left.

This is somewhere where I will never return. Absolutely awful experience. I was in shock at the rudeness.
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Food 4 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I really enjoyed a romantic meal at Blakes last Friday, it is the perfect place to hid away in Chelsea as winter is setting iin, I am quite a regular there as I only live around the corner and have noticed a steady increase in quality over the past few months. I think it may have something to do with new maitre'd who is simply wonderful.

We started with an impeccable Beluga Blini accompanied by Dom Roase which was sublime.

For main course i highly reccommend the lamb, its an oldie but a goodie.

Dont miss out on the Caramel Souffle either,

If i didnt live so close id be tempted to stay the rooms look beautiful.
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Kate Dowman - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 6
Sunday, September 30, 2007

We ate at Blakes celebrating our 20th anniversary on Feb. 24th, 2007 and have eaten there before. We returned not necessarily because it's was the greatest food in London, but we previously had enjoyed the atmosphere and bar. When arriving this time the bar was closed for a private party and we went to sit in the small bar in the back of the restaurant. We ordered 2 glasses of champagne and when we finished our glasses we waited with empty glasses for 15 minutes while trying to get the bartenders attention. With no luck we were seated at our table. We were rushed by the inexperience and inefficient servers who never were the same people.(apparently the servers serve all tables) the only professional was I believe the maître d' who did take our wine order. We both had the sea bass and spinach. The spinach was so salty that I couldn't eat it and the sea bass was lackluster at best. They forgot about our wine chilling and never filled our glasses (we thought the bottle was empty) and ordered a dessert wine with dessert. They brought us the dessert wine and suddenly found our bottle which had two and half glasses of wine left it in, so we had an ensemble of wine glasses lined up to drink on our table. I won't return to Blakes for whom needs to waste their money on bad service, and marginal food.
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Vicki Roos
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Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 2
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The worst meal I have ever had in a "posh" London restaraunt. The spinach was so salty that it was inedible (there were litterally grains of salt visble all over it). The main courses were forgettable at best. The "special" start (a risotto) was £50 - twice the price of any other starter and no price was mentioned which I think is totally unethical. The decor is interesting if you like a dark Japanese brothel. The manager laughed at me when I complained at the end of the meal. I strongly recomend that you do not visit this restaraunt.
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Simon Beresford
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Food 2 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 1
Saturday, December 09, 2006

We had a terrible meal at this restaurant, the table located by the corridor to the loos was constantly being jostled by staff and guests. The food was very average, we actually left after the main course as we could not stand it any longer. Not something you expect from this class of restaurant where you expect to pay at least £100 a head without wine.
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edd
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Food 4 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Monday, October 16, 2006

Blakes is one of my favourite restaurants in London. The decor and atmosphere are both outstanding and it is the perfect place to go on a romantic date or for an intimate dinner with a small group of friends. The food is very good as well and you have to try their famous cheese souffle.

The reason I am submitting this review however is because we recently had a dinner for about 15 people in one of their private rooms. Everything from service to food to the fact that they allowed us to have our own music in the room could not have been more perfect. I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to celebrate a special occasion.

Also when going for dinner leave time to go to the bar afterwards!
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MR
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Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 4
Tuesday, August 15, 2006