Hix Soho

This place often looked busy when I walked past in the street, so thought I must be missing out on a great new eating venue. Booked via TopTable for set menu and cocktail £20. Set menu was either 'Sprout hearts' or duck salad, not a difficult choice. Main course game pie or fish, better selection.

On the 'a la carte' menu there was fish fingers, chips & peas (!!) £17.75 + service charge - £20 for what I can get in my local cafe. Our table neighbours ordered a steak, that's all he got one streak, no veg. He did ask about mushrooms and was told they don't do mushrooms, but he could have chips at an extra cost. HaHaHa. the same local cafe I mentioned do steak complete with chips and mushrooms for £9.95, & no service charge.

Wine expensive too, other West End restaurants have a better selection which costs less.

Needless to say I will not be going back again or recommending Hix, quite the opposite!
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Peter Schneiter
3 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 2
Monday, February 18, 2013

I have been taken to this branch of Hix quite a few times and have always enjoyed it [although I don't have to pay the bill !]

The menu is always interesting, Yesterday I had woodland mushroom soup-excellent, mallard-good flavour and sea buckthorn posset- divine ! The portion of frites for two seemed a bit stingy, but otherwise all was good. It isnt a place that does overtly pretty precious food, thankfully.

The service was exemplary..attentive, courteous, responsive..what more do you want !
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Adam
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 5
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

I was going to write a review to warn people about here but looks like I don't have to worry!

Overpriced average food, ridiculously expensive wine, friendly staff but they hustle you to get out of there for the mid evening turnover. With so much choice in London, it's appalling that a place like this manages to get punters through the door, and until people vote with their feet, us Londoners will keep getting overpriced places like this. Avoid. The Ivy is just up the road, as is Arbutus. Similar prices-different world.
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tim
3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 0
Friday, September 21, 2012

Very expensive for very average food. Very disappointing.

Steak served with nothing but 3 small dishes of sauce, mustard, pesto and bearnaise from a jar really not good enough at that price. Chips are extra??

Left feeling hungry and more than a little bit ripped off.
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Tim Haire
3 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Style over content! Dined with 3 friends - one of whom highly recommended it - however it was a big disappointment. A bit 'emperor's new clothes' for me - but I'm the little boy who will shout out - you've got no clothes on! It was a full house on a wet Thursday evening which created a buzzing atmosphere and added to the anticipation, however the food was a huge disappointment. It was so ordinary -maybe I'm missing the point, but at those prices I wanted to be blown away.

On a plus side, the service was friendly and the dessert recommendation was spot on - I can't remember the name of it but it was a chocolate creation with nuts and meringue. The other desserts we ordered were, again, ordinary

We fled before coffee with our credit cards bashed, and I'm sorry to say won't be returning.
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4 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Shocking restuarant.

Ordered steak to be told the kitchen

Had run out of chips, what is one without the other.

How embarrassing.
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Richard grassie
2 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 0
Sunday, May 06, 2012

Poor. An overly complicated menu can't disguise for long the fact that the food is shockingly overpriced but very ordinary. The mark up on the wine leaves such a bitter taste in the mouth that you can't realy enjoy drinking it knowing how much you've been gouged for the pleasure. The one good feature was that they had a reasonable vegetarian option for one of our group, although they then spoiled that having the waiter come round and placing a platter of raw meat on our table so he could explain the cuts to an adjacent table. Shabby.

Through it's combination of fussy food and overpricing, Hix has achieved the accolade of being the only restaurant in the last five years, anywhere in the world, in which there's been nothing I was happy to order.
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Jeff F
3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Incredibly disappointed by the service (or lack of it) last night. We were seated at 8.30 and despite asking 3 times for someone to take our order it wasn't until 9.30!!!

An hour to wait to order some food is not on, especially when the floor manager walked past our table no less than 6 times and glanced at our menus.....a free round of Prosecco doesn't really cut it and I would've expected service to not be included!

When the food eventually arrived, my starter of beetroot was lacking in any flavour & the main course of Pollock was tasteless.

On a Tuesday evening & not a full restaurant, I expect much more.
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anon - View all reviews by this user
3 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 2
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

We have been to Hix many times. I'll tell you about it in a minute. In a nutshell it's a gem.

BUT why do they employ someone to take reservations who gets her kicks from humbling the caller? This week we tried, albeit somewhat optimistically, to get a table for Saturday night. We were told there was nothing available before 10pm, but we would be put on the waiting list. When we came to Mark's Bar on Thursday for a quick drink, we asked for an update and were told there was a good chance of us getting our Saturday table. This afternoon when we called to find out whether a table had become free, the woman answering the phone claimed to know nothing about us. Haughty, supercilious, patronising, all ever so faintly. She told us we could wait in the bar for a table to come free, if we wanted, but that the bar was "completely full" (this at 5pm).

Such a shame. They need to take a leaf out of the Wolseley/Delaunay stable of restuarants, who make the common man feel like a celebrity - and I'm sure make celebrities feel even more so.

All that said, if you can get past Cerberus and they deign to give you a table, the food is top notch, the service impeccable and the atmosphere buzzing. One of the great eateries in London today.
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7 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Saturday, January 21, 2012

went there last night and the food was very average i'm afraid. complicated menu (trying too hard really) with disappointing delivery. side dishes are miniscule. and the service is simply appalling. terribly slow and casual. took half an hour to get dessert, 20 minutes for the bill and another 15 for the card terminal. i didn't feel like a customer but more like in the way. a lot to improve but anyway i will not go back.
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marc
3 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 2
Thursday, January 19, 2012