Wild Honey

Visited this restaurant last night to celebrate a friend's birthday. Because I am disabled I sit very low at the table so asked for a cushion, I was very impressed as they went to another restaurant to borrow a couple for me, that deserves 10 points on it's own. I wasn't too sure about the menu as nothing jumped out at me, so plumped for pork belly with hertfordshire snails which was delicious, pork was so moist and tasty. I then had cod with gnocci. It looked very white on the plate so not sure I had picked correctly, but the flavour of the seafood vinigrette came through, and I did enjoy it, not sure i would have again. dessert was custard tart with persimon which is a tangy orange jelly. Overall a lovely restaurant and would certainly go again
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Jean - View all reviews by this user
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Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Sunday, December 06, 2009

Service was excellent. Food unfortunately didn't match. Crab salad - crab was good but the dressing had been hanging around on the plate and this showed. Salmon trout was tasteless and suffered from the same problem with the sauce (of i'm not sure what) of being plated too early.
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ecr - View all reviews by this user
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Food 4 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Booked ahead and mentioned that the reservatiuon was for an anniversary and was assured that a booth coud be possible (I realise that London restaurants don't do guarantees anymore). It was written in the book on the night, but for unexplained reasons we weren't.

Not a great start, but upon hearing my request, they bent over backwards to sort it out. Within 40 mins we were in - hurrah! The staff are very, very good here and they made the night.

The food is also executed to a high standard. This is what we had: White bread and butter - excellent. Boudin blanc with little girolles - amazing. Crab and nectarine curls - super fresh. Cod and gnocchi - delicious. Deconstructed bouillabaise - too rich for me, overpoweringly dense and rich. Cheese - superb. Unadvertised custard tart - the best I've ever tasted.

Drank 6 carafe's and some champagne at the start. Got comp'd two glasses of dessert wine for the table mix up. £184 for two.

Marvellous - really, really special.
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Coops
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 8
Friday, September 11, 2009

My lovely wife and i decided to try "Wild Honey" for one of our occasional date nights. We have tried just about everywhere in Notting Hill so it made a nice change to dress up a little and go out for an up scale meal. The restaurant was very quiet when i first entered at 7PM but by the time we left it was absolutly packed. I had a highly competent martini whilst I waited for my wife to arrive.

The menu was looked good though I was more struck by the mains than the starters. My wife had a lovely unctuous veloute whilst I went for a bean and morel mushroom salad. It was tasty but I probably could have managed with just my main. To follow my wife had lovely Label Anglais roast chicken whilst I went for the signature Boullabaise. This came deconstructed style so you sort of assemble it yourself. The fish was absolutely beautiful, matched with a lovely soup. My one observation would be that it is quite a large dish to eat and by the time I got down to finishing my little saucepan of soup it had gone tepid. A cover for the dished would really have helped keep it all warm. It came with plentiful croutons and rouille.

We felt it silly to skip desert and my wife had a plum panacota whilst I went for the wild honey ice cream. Both were delicious and a great way to finish off a lovely meal. One great point of difference with this restaurant is they do nearly all there wines by the 250ml carafe. This is a real bonus and meant I could try some more unusual wines and match wines to each course. They even did 50ml taster measures of desert wine. Service was friendly and relatively informal which makes a nice difference to a lot of Mayfair restaurants which can be stuffy.

We had a really nice time and though the place isn't cheap I thought for the standard of food we had it was excellent value. We will definitely go back and I am now keen to try "Arbutus"
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david ginsberg - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Monday, August 24, 2009

My partner & I went there in the spring, and had great food. We were probably in the worst table in the house (nearest to the till) and it is expensive, but what we ate was really great - in particular was a 40 day aged steak. We didn't have a set menu, and agree the service was a bit variable. I think we didn't care by the end as we had already drunk a lot and had enjoyed the main course so much! We would go back at some time in the future to see if other dishes are as good as the ones we tried last time. Overally pretty good
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lisa - View all reviews by this user
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Food 8 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 6
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Very nice place, good service and most important --- VERY good food.
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Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Monday, June 22, 2009

I ate here on Thursday lunchtime with 7 guests expecting good food and good service but was greatly disappointed. The service was churlish in the extreme, and the food "thrown" at you and if you were lucky the right person got the right dish. The set menu option wasn't available for groups over 6, but if you insist on people eating a la carte, at least provide some of the extras such as an amuse bouche for example. There were no petit fours served and at £80 a head this is without doubt the worst Michelin starred restaurant I have ever eaten in both in terms of the quality of food, but most especially in tems of quality of service. The upshot of this experience is that I will not even bother to try Arbutus which has long been on my hitlist, and will certainly discourage anyone who asks me for my opinion on whether they should try Wild Honey (or Arbutus for the same reason). Every one of my friends, all of whom are experienced foodies, were of the same opinion. Desserts were especially poor. Michelin and Giles Coren - take note.
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Gareth - View all reviews by this user
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Food 3 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 3
Monday, April 27, 2009

Good food, and the service began well but began to taper off half way through the meal. Nice atmosphere.
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Food 8 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 7
Friday, February 20, 2009

I went to Wild Honey yesterday expecting great things and was very disappointed with the food, the service and the management.

Things were fine on arrival and after looking at the menu my wife and I decided to go for the set lunch (not based on cost but because it looked really appetizing. That was where it all went wrong, once the words "set menu" left our lips things changed and the service dropped off the scale. I would say we were treated with a mild disgust.

The white wine was at room temperature and my wifes main of veal ravioli contained a lot of bone and gristle.

To top it all off we chose the cheese for dessert and watched in amazement as the manager told the waitress off for giving us too much! It was one piece of Brie...

This was meant to be a romantic pre-valentines day lunch which was ruined by the poor quality of the food and the attitude of the staff / manager.

We will not be going back and I will not recommend Wild Honey to anyone.
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JJ - View all reviews by this user
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Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 1
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Really nice atmosphere and surroundings. Ate belly pork with snails followed by bouillabaise and my companion terrine followed by pork - amazing crackling.

Nice bottle of french red and a carafe of reisling. Couple of coffees. Pretty good value at £115 including service. Will try Arbutus next.
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Rollo - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Tuesday, January 20, 2009