Bleeding Heart (Bistro)

Do not go to this terrible Bistro. Unfortunately I work near this Bistro so have taken several clients here and each time i say to myself the poor service and food must be a one off. It's not.

- The waiters are unattentive and exceptionally rude.

- The menu reads well but the quality is very poor, almost amateurish.

- Food is over priced.

Do not go to this place if you want good food and service. You have been warned.
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Pat Keogh
2 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Not the best. A littler disappointed after hearing about it. I had planned to go into the restaurant but we went for lunch on a Saturday and only the bistro was available. Menu sounds good but the food is pretty standard, and in context, probably not worth the price they charge,

Wine was good, service was decent (although it wasn't very busy) but they served really crispy chips i.e. triple fried chips!! Rib eye was tasty though, ate all of that. Salmon starter was nice but the blini served under it was too big. After eating bread whilst we were waiting.

I think I'll try the restaurant at some point, not sure I'll give the bistro another go though. I can imagine its a really nice place in thew week (when people are around the city). Forget going on Saturday, there are tones of better restraunts in London!!

£90 lunch for 2 was pretty steep, although that was 2 starters, 2 steaks (£!5), wine £25 a desert and 2 coffees.

Go in the week, forget the weekend. Restaurant I imagine (and hope) is much better than the bistro!
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David C
6 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Saturday, September 04, 2010

Went to the Bleeding Heart restaurant for a work team lunch. We were going for the Xmas menu at £32 each, three courses + coffee and mince pies.

The venue is nice - perfect on a cold winter's day. Wood throughout, soft lights, wine bottles everywhere and a lot of french staff.

The food was however quite average. My Pumpkin soup was nothing special - just really average. Tasty but I make a better one myself. My main was roast turkey with truffle parnsip, bruxelles cocotte and something else. It was basically two small slices of turkey, 3 roast potatoes, 4 parnsips and one small chipolata. The 'bruxelles' cocotte was actlually the best thing, very tasty mashed brussels sprouts. No trace of truffle at all. The dessert i chose was chocolate fondant with caramelised orange and orange ice cream. The fondant was ok - again, the Gu fondant are actually better. The ice cream lacked flavour.

Service is attentive - but not a place I would go back at all.
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Fried Egg Fred
5 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 3
Friday, December 04, 2009

Not great -- feels a bit of a tourist/city-boy rip-off, maybe past its prime.

Ordered pork tenderloin with boudin noir for about £11 -- really just a thin pork chop (tender but tasteless) with mashed potato and a small piece of black pudding. A friend had steak, which looked good, but was small, with minimal basic trimmings.

We shared a £35 bottle of bordeaux -- OK, but over-priced. Service is friendly, though the jokes are a bit laboured.... Good coffee.

All in all, I wouldn't go back, though it's a pleasant enough place in a peaceful (and historic) yard away from the noise of Farringdon.
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Sam Dutton
5 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 4
Tuesday, May 26, 2009