Landseer British Kitchen

I've eaten here three or four times and with the 50% offer it's rather good value. However ,the service needs a vast improvement...at times it felt that the staff didn't have a clue about being a waitress or waiter...nor did they care.

The food is OK. It's a bar above what you'll find in other hotel restaurants. The trio of seafood is execellent..

The room...in the basement is rather dark and clinical but it's still acceptable.

They do have a decent wine list....the only issue is that the first choice always seems to be out of stock...

Not bad....not great...just OK.
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5 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 7
Thursday, September 16, 2010

My daughter booked a Fathers Day lunch at this place and was told on the phone we could only be accommodated at 2pm, so we assumed a busy place with a lively atmosphere. We arrived, after a special journey from Kent to join her, and found it was closed. Staff acknowledged the existence of the booking but no effort had been made to use the contact number provided.
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Kentishwanderer
0 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Monday, June 21, 2010

I don't normally write reviews, and am generally very English when it comes to complaining, but feel compelled to write one having visited the Landseer British Kitchen last night. We wanted to show our friends visiting from overseas that 'British cuisine' could be good and this place seemed like a decent choice. It looks very nice, and the service was good, but the food was embarrassingly bad.

My starter, a 'smoked duck terrine', was the worst kind of cheap, smooth Brussels pate straight out of a packet, accompanied by what was without doubt Branston pickle and two tiny triangles of soggy white bread on the side. I really couldn't believe my eyes. I wanted to take the plate to the kitchen and say 'guys, come on, what the hell is this?'. But didn't, and hoped things would improve for the main, but the 'Deep-fried beer-battered seabass fillet, twice cooked chips, mushy peas, tartare sauce, fresh tomato coulis' was similarly appalling - soggy fish, hard dry oven chips, and the peas, tartare and coulis were all out of jars. It all tasted old and dried up and shop-bought, like the kind of terrible food you'd expect to eat in a London pub twenty years ago.

There were many other lowlights - fish carpaccio that had to be sent back as it smelled so bad, a pork chop that was so chewy and tasteless as to be inedible - but I'll stop here. We decided against desserts. A depressed silence fell around the table as we were presented with the bill - £40 each. We won't be rushing back.
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3 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 0
Sunday, June 06, 2010

I ate here on my own whilst attending a course, in May 2010, using the 50% discount voucher. I had lobster and crab bisque to start, followed by a selection of fish with colcannon and a sparling mineral water. The bill came to £14.95 - excellent value (especially when considering I ate in the restaurant at the mediocre hotel that I was staying in the night before and had an average meal for £25!!!). The food, service, decor, etc. was all oustanding and I will definately eat here again when next in London.
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10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Just got back from Landseer, there was a 50% off deal (off all food) -- we thought the prices were very reasonable to begin with, but with dinner for the three of us (no wine but three courses) at 45GBP, it was astounding.

The service was certainly lacking somewhat: our bread-plate never left the table, the glass wasn't polished, desert and our starters took a while longer than they should have.

The quality of the food, however, was very good. Starters were delicate, well seasoned and balanced. The steak was to perfection, the burger was outrageous (over an inch thick), the fish & chips was lovely. The sides were well presented and portioned. The sorbet was excellent and the lemon tart smooth and flavourful.

Despite the service, would recommend the place and would certainly advise anyone go with the half-off deal.
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Peter
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, December 15, 2009