Asia de Cuba

I went there for dinner with my partner.

The place is terribly noisy, I had to start shouting at my partner who sat opposite, and because of this, the couple next to us had to shout louder and so on..

The service was ok. The food is good but just can't imagine going to that kind of place and have a proper conversation, if I wanted to shout I would've gone to a bar in Soho.

Not worth spending your hard earned cash for ..
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Food 5 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

The service was of poor quality, the kind you would expect from a low budget place. Except a few dishes, the food was bad and often cold. A good advice: avoid this place and if you really have no other choice, avoid their menus...
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M. Stanford
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Food 2 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The food was honestly the worst I've ever had in London, even if I like the environment. Don't spend your time and money there...
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Mr. A
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Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

We went with 5 friends to Asia de Cuba on the 25th December for the Christmas Menu and it has been one of the worst experience I had in London in 2009.

Service was incredibly poor. Food was sincerely not good. And the worst was that the restaurant did not even serve us the full Xmas Menu which was set out on the menu and didnt want to do so when we kindly asked.

Basically, a terrible experience and I would strongly recommend anyone not to go to this terrible restaurant.
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Luc Gordon
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Food 3 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 3
Monday, January 11, 2010

I ate here for my friends birthday last friday, off the full menu. All started out well, we were welcomed professionally and taken to a lovely table. However here my compliments end. I was bitterly dissapointed with service from ordering the wine onwards. I do not know if they were short staffed that night,but we never saw our waiter again. I had to wander round the restaurant to try and order another bottle of wine. Our used plates remained on the table so long we had stacked them ourselves.They then had the cheek to put £37 service charge on the bill.

We were recomended to order 2 starters, two mains and two side dishes, and I quote 'the portions here are very large'. Between the three of us for our starter we had one prawn and one and half scallops each. Main course was the same scenario.

Although it grieves me to sound like my mother , I do judge a restaurant/bar by its toilets. A clean flushing toilet is a must and taps that work would have been nice.

I have been in some beautiful restaurants throughout london, Asia de Cuba is a pitiful attempt at a highend restaurant. I left feeling stupid for paying the £90 a head, and sorry to my lovely friend who had to spend her birthday treat there.
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Rebecca Hill
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Food 4 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Monday, October 26, 2009

I visited last night in a group of 8 for a friends birthday. The place is hidden behind an anonymous foyet. There were plenty of staff aound to take coats and whisk you to your table, there is even a bit of a buzz in the main room, with it's funky modern decor. The menu is full of over complicated asian dishes with carribean touches. The portions are large and meant to be shared. They are over priced and not very satisfying. I think it is acceptable to order a chinese banquet in a chinese restaurant, but an expensive london fusion resturant is not the place for such shinnanigans. They have missed the point. They have also missed the opportunity to create beautiful single portion dishes that can excite the taste buds and satisfy the diner.

I suppose I was disappointed with food. Whilst none of it was awful... none of it was special and at £60 I expected more than a big plates of over dressed food to share. There are so many good asian restaurants, and I am not convinced that the fusion of asia and cuba works on any level. Maybe that is the answer to my very ordinary dining experience. If you want Carribean, get Carribean, and ditto if you want asian get asian. I don't want fried plantain with my duck, thanks!

Desserts were good and big and shared. Normal size portions for less money is better... as with most things less if more and this place is a bit like the posh london fusion version of a TGI Fridays...

I have nothing more to say.
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Sean Smith
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Food 1 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 1
Sunday, October 11, 2009

I have to say that i will NEVER GO again. My experience there was terrible. Being french and inviting a lot my clients into various restaurant i am used to benchmark places. This one was noisy far above the acceptable (and i mean it !), service was disorganized (and thus not efficient at all) and food was.....average. Too bad but i will NOT recommend at all this place.
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Thomas brenac
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Food 3 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 3
Thursday, September 24, 2009

This place is memorable for all the WRONG reasons. The staff are some of the worst I have ever come across. Will never go back. Food not up to scratch either.
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Food 4 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 0
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Sadly, it appears this restaurant has taken a dive since the last time we dined there - 2 years ago. The calamari starter salad could very well have been served out of a massive tin bin (nyc style street bins), prepped the night before. The thai beef salad was really a plate of carpaccio (difficult to lift off the base of the plate) with a tossed salad on top ... and the lamb main really turned out to taste more like what we expected of the thai beef salad.

Service wasn't on par either - they managed to take our coats/bags without giving us a ticket - and later giving us a hard time for not having a ticket ...

Best part of the meal was the wine ... a £45 bottle of gewurztraminer ... which any restaurant can get right.
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Henry R
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Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Went to asia de cuba last night with a group of friends, we went for the bento box for £10 a head which was exceptional value for money. The food was excellent and the venue and interior was superb. However we were all left lost for words by the rude service, firstly they were quite pushy and tried to steer us away from the £10 offer, but we held our ground and we were all glad as it was very nice, salmon, beef dumplings, havanna noodles and avocado salad with good portion size. It was ideal for pre-theatre or night out.

We ordered 4 x tiger beers at £5 a pop, quite expensive but as the food was such good value we didn't mind so much.

After we finished our meal we declined the dessert menu and had a chat whilst drinking our beers, no longer then 5 minutes i would say. Then the waiter came over actually clicked his fingers and pointed towards the door! he said 'thanks for coming guys, next time order a dessert!"

I've been working in the the catering industry for over 10 years in the west end and have eaten in most of the best restaurants, and i have never ever come across such rude service. The waiter needs sacking!! spoilt what would have been an enjoyable experience and they won't be having my custom again.
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David
Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 6
Thursday, January 29, 2009