The Peckham Experiment

Went there with my partner for breakfast yesterday and was really, really disappointed. I ordered eggs benedict - the egg was over cooked (hardly any runny yolk), the hollandaise was cold, the salmon grey and chewy, the chef had decided to make the addition of some raw peppers and tomatoes and replace the muffin with a crumpet. The smoked salmon and grey scrambled eggs equally poor.

The service was painfully slow.

I would recommend people thinking of going here to go elsewhere. McDonalds maybe.
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Matt Goodall
Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 0
Sunday, September 02, 2007

Two weeks ago i visited this place having happily eaten here about 6 months ago. What a change (and not for the better). The food was nice but very expensive for the area that it is in. The service was laughably bad. No napkins, 10 minutes to get a drink and 40 minutes to get a main (i timed it after i saw how long it took to get served a drink). Not once did they come to the table and ask if we would like another drink. We didn't order dessert as we could not bear waiting 15 minutes to get it. The staff were never on the floor so you spent most of the time looking for them. Then having to go and pay £2 to get cash out of a machine as they did not take credit cards was the final insult.

Positive

Food was nice (had beef ribs for 2)

Negative

Expensive (seperate veges)

disinterested, incredibly slow and incompetant service

No credit cards taken
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Anthony
Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

The restaurant has re-opened as Bellenden Brassarie. We went there last night and wish we hadn't bothered. The food is lack lustre and the service indifferent. For my main course, which verged on unpleasant, I had a tiny piece of extremely over cooked tuna and a mound of unpleasantly sticky noodles. The biggest surprise came at the end of the meal - this establishment doesn't take either credit or debit cards. We pointed out to the waiter that this isn't normal practice and on the rare occasions that restaurants don't take cards they usually tell you long before the bill arrives - he argued otherwise. Result - my husband had to wander off into Peckham around 11pm to find a cash machine that was working. This place needs to pull its socks up considerably if it wants any customers.
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Elizabeth Bartle
Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Sunday, August 06, 2006