Quo Vadis

I've been twice since Jeremy Lee became Head Chef and it's an inspired, transformative move by the Hart brothers. Quo Vadis is now everything a landmark restaurant should be in that I wanted everything on the menu, you can scale up or down depending on why you're there (I've been for a birthday and business), and I felt special and happy sitting in the midst of it. The egg and beetroot salad was the prettiest, and tastiest, of plates. The eel sandwich is rightfully celebrated. The hare pie was one of the most comforting main courses I can remember. And a duo of terrines for £6 in Soho? Brilliant. I can't wait to go back.
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Richard Milner
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The most over-rated restaurant in London? Quite possibly. There's no doubting the fabulous kitsch decor within, however, the food and service were agonisingly slow and overtly mediocre and bland respectively. Having read the rave reviews from critics and those from this site, one was compelled ask whether there had been a change in management and chef.

Quo Vadis? Elsewhere.
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Syracuse Rising - View all reviews by this user
5 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 4
Friday, January 06, 2012

I'm baffled by the relatively low scores you give to this, one of the very best (and best run) restaurants in London. Customers love Quo Vadis, your reviewers love Quo Vadis, this reviewer loves Quo Vadis, but your anonymous ratings appear only to approve.
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9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

I've always liked Quo Vadis. Nice surroundings, smart art, good menu with lots of favourites and a few surprises.

My visit the other day for lunch had all this but I don't know if it was just my bad luck but the 2 dishes I ordered weren't very nice.

The ox tongue salad was massively overdressed which spoiled it. And the saddle of rabbit in sourdough bread simply didn't work. I felt the rabbit needed to be trimmed much better and the bread bowl thing was frankly awful. Really really dense loaf, undercooked, impossible to get your knife and fork through.

The gravy or jus or whatever one is supposed to call it now was far too reduced to help with the doughy bread situation and the rabbit came out a little dry too which didn't help.

As I said, it may have been bad luck but the dishes were at best sloppy and you could say that the rabbit dish was a complete failure which I wouldn't mind had it not cost about £20. I'm all for something a little brave and experimental but you'd expect the execution to be a little better I think.

Certainly won't put me off going back but maybe they've just gone a little off the boil in the kitchen?
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benjamin163 - View all reviews by this user
6 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 5
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Flawless service, beautiful food and a very attractive restaurant. One's of London's seriously good eating experiences.
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9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The food at Quo Vadis was truly sublime when I visited the restaurant with a group of 7 friends last week. We got to the restaurant on a very cold night, post theatre and I ordered the split pea and ham soup which was out of this world. I keep having cravings for it. The service was good too without being too intrusive or over fussy. Haven't been here for some time but was very pleasantly surprised and will be going back again definitely.
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Discerning Foodie
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Sadly, Quo Vadis' best days now seem to be behind it. Despite receiving multiple calls from the reservations team to confirm the booking we had a 90 minute wait in the cramped bar for a table. When we were eventually seated our group of four were seated at a table for three. At that point the staff seemed to disappear. We had to track down a waiter to take an order from what was left of the menu. First course arrived after 11.30pm which seems rather poor for a 9.30pm reservation.
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Patrick McDermott
4 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 3
Friday, December 17, 2010

To Dean Street for a pre-theatre meal. It's never great when you're the first (and for much of our stay) only diners but that's a timing problem, not the restaurant's fault.

The pre-theatre menu matches a reduced price with a pretty limited selection but two of us stuck with it and were pleased with our choices. Mrs K went a la carte. All the food was good, as we've come to expect, and service was both friendly and prompt, acknowledging our time constraint but leaving us to set the pace.

I simply can't understand the previous reviewer's comments about staff rudeness.
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Kentishwanderer
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 7
Friday, November 19, 2010

Friendly bar staff, good beers and a great range of bar snacks - a positive start. Move out back to the restaurant and it's like you've moved into a completely different establishment! The staff were so rude I thought it was a joke. Distinctly average food that arrived within five minutes of our order being taken (?!?!). A decent bottle of Vacqueryas saved it from being a complete disaster but I will not be going back!
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3 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Monday, November 15, 2010

Expensive. Formal. Good food. Good service. Atmosphere livened up as the night went on and it filled up. Old-school gentlemen's food. Steaks. Pies. Grills. Very clubby.
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6 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 2
Thursday, April 29, 2010