Eat and Two Veg

I completely agree that this restaurant Eat and Two Veg was completely disgusting and should have been closed long time ago. The food was rubbish and very expensive. The staff especially the mangers were rude.
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Salim Karamani
0 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Friday, November 19, 2010

I absolutely loved Eat and Two Veg for its down-home cooking and diner atmosphere, and went there whenever I possibly could on my last business trip to London. I can't believe the negative reviews here. I was heartbroken when they closed, and would do anything to have a restaurant like EATV in Tokyo, where I live. Does anyone know where the chef(s) have flown to, so I can visit their current restaurant next time?
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william
8 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Friday, October 01, 2010

I completely agree that this restaurant Eat and Two Veg was completely disgusting and should have been closed long time ago. The food was rubbish and very expensive. The staff especially the mangers were rude.
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Salim Karamani - View all reviews by this user
0 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

It was horribly over-priced and oily. I went quite a few months ago. I ordered this butternut squash dish which was well-presented on the dish but very very oily. The food was neither tasty nor healthy as it was so oily. There was no flavour and the food is worse than Hospital food.

We actually went somewhere after that as we just couldn't eat the food at all. So complete waste. There are many other much better and reasonably priced vegetarian restaurants.
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Ruth - View all reviews by this user
4 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 1
Saturday, December 19, 2009

OK, I have a serious problem with this restaurant. To put you in the right mood for this review AND the restaurant (especially if you're reading this in the hope that maybe you will be visiting this restaurant), the food is disgusting! And I am not exaggerating. To think that I had to pay for this food and then find that it was just vegetables at an extortionate price, is completely outrageous!

I visited this restaurant as a surprised birthday party for my best friend. We had booked the back of the restaurant which was a large bench that went across the back wall for 22 people, so huge birthday party. Pre-visiting the restaurant, I wanted to arrange for a cake to be bought out for the birthday girl (who incidentally was the only vegetarian amongst the 22 - we were all there, trying out a vegetarian restaurant for her expecting to be pleasantly surprised despite the lack of meat). Upon speaking to the manager of the restaurant, I was told that the cake which we were getting for my best friend for the restaurant to bring out had to be vegan or at least vegetarian. If they had worded it as "vegan or vegetarian" I would have completely understood, but first choice vegan and then vegetarian, AND the fact that they weren't even the ones eating it or having to cut it?? This seemed a bit up their own backsides, but fine, we found a vegetarian cake.

I got there 30 mins early to decorate the table with a balloon or two. Me and my husband were shown to the table and as I sat on the bench which was a leather-style (but really plastic) cushioned bench. Here lay the first problem. Because it wasn't leather, the fake leather/plastic had started ripping and there were these great big tears in the seat, like the ones you get a cheap fast food restaurant. Except, this place is NOT cheap! We're talking near michelin star prices of about £10-15 for a main course (for vegetables!) and the service and decor was disgraceful! The tables were greasy and the kitchen, being open planned, was exhuding grease from the grills.

The service was awful, we didn't have enough cutlery and plates for all 22 people, starter plates were not placed on each persons place but instead left at the end of the table for us to distribute amongst us. The starter of fake aromatic duck was OK, and yes, I was pleasantly surprised. However, my husbands platter of what should have been a vegetarian's forte, i.e., homous, falefel and pitta bread was just disgusting. The homous tasted of absolutely nothing but mush, I couldn't taste any chick peas, seasoning or flavours, the pitta was burnt to charcoal and the falafel were a very sorry sight with again no seasoning. Suddenly I saw a massive demand for salt and pepper on our table, it was just so so poor!

Main course, I thought I would go full out and try something different (being a meat eater etc) and I went for the butternut squash and courgette tower with goats cheese and crumble. Sounded and looked delicious. Started eating it, great, not bad, until I ate a courgette. It was bitter! From my experience, courgettes only get bitter when they are about to past their sell by date and rot. All the courgettes in my tower were bitter. I just couldn't fathom how a vegetarian restaurant who served vegetables would have such poor quality vegetables. After my fifth mouthful I couldn't stomach any more of the mushiness and had to stop. It was like eating a massive side dish of butternut squash with courgettes, but I wont blame the restaurant for that, that could have been because I'm usually a meat eater and not use to the textures of only vegetables. My poor husband had the all day breakfast, thinking it was the safe option with only the vegetarian "protein" sausages to get through. Alas, the best part of the dish should have been the mushrooms, I mean, how could any one cook mushrooms wrong?? The button mushrooms looked absolutely sickening on the plate - they were black, shivered up, wrinkly with all the moisture grilled the hell out of them. It was so hard to stomach and at nearly £15 for that, we were starting to all feel really bitter about having to humour our vegetarian friend at this disgraceful excuse for a restaurant.

No one bothered with the desert - we just stuck to our tiny portions of M&S vegetarian chocolate birthday cake which was only suppose to be symbolic and not a substitute for desert.

We all had to cough up £20 per person PLUS 12.5% service!! and considering not everyone had starter, no one had an alcoholic drink and everyone only had one soft drink it, this was a complete rip off. It's fine, this was a one off EVER for a birthday, but dear lord, please PLEASE do not go here, even with vegetables, it was a sorry sorry sight. I was expecting to be delighted by vegetarian food but this has just pushed me far away as possible to converting to vegetarism.

So to conclude, read this and decide what you will but don't say I didn't warn you.
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Jess Lim
0 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Monday, November 23, 2009

What a disappointment!

Second rate food, the menu has not been changed since the place opened, the vegan selection is paltry, consisting of simply serving dishes without the haloumi, or without goat's cheese, frankly this is like eating in McDonald's, and throwing away the burger!

E & 2V could set the standards of a quality restaurant serving animal free food, but instead chooses to take the 'easy option' of serving cheese and egg dishes. The vegan desserts consist of sorbet and fruit salad, while those which appear to have actually taken some consideration are egg dishes, (oh yeah, and a 'crumble' taken from a Cranks recipe book circa 1974 ! )

Eat... it's time to take the initiative and move the agenda forward, for health, environment, and ethics, please leave the eggs & cheese at the factory farm, and experiment with some cruelty free food - your clients think you are taking them for granted, times have changed even since you opened - take the initiative!
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Graham
3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 3
Sunday, November 01, 2009

We went to Eat and Two Veg Today at 10:00am ( 1st September 2009) for breakfast. The restaurant should have opened at 9am according to the opening times, but finally opened at 10:30!

On arrival we were told by the manager that the kitchen would not be serving food for 1/2hr, but we were able to order drinks.

Following a discussion with the Manager and Head Chef, we were left uncertain as to the approx. time of when we could order food.

The manager subsequently left and the kitchen staff were preparing for lunch leaving us to wonder if they were even going to serve food that morning.

Perhaps the manager left to get his own breakfast, which was understandable as by that time we were very hungry!

Although we did have very good service two nights previously, we will not return in fear of a similar bad experience again.
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Mr & Mrs Bowen
6 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Went on Saturday with my vegetarian wife. Had an excellent meal that belies the statements made about boring Veggie food. We shared a Thai Satay and a delicious Halloumi Cheese dish for starters and a main course of Lentil Cake on a bed of Spinach and Butternut Squash with a side dish of Roasted Sweet Potatoes shared between us. More than enough. Lentil Cake was quite spicy but very nice and very good with the side dishes.

Ambience was good if a bit noisy. With non alcoholic cocktail and a beer the bill was a reasonable £35ish.
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Nicholas Fraser
8 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Despite all the negative reviews, my boyfriend took me to Eat and Two Veg for dinner on the 29th of July, and we very much enjoyed ourselves. We arrived late for our booking (due to transport problems which were out of our hands!) but the staff were very courteous and understanding, and we still got seated immediately despite the restaurant being busy. While the place does look a bit tacky, it's still quite a nice atmosphere to eat in, especially if you're looking for a more relaxed dinner.

We ordered the Crispy Aromatic 'Luck' to share for starters, which was the best veggie duck I've ever had (and I've been to quite a few vegan Chinese places!). Portion was a little on the small side, but we still could get three pancakes each out of it. For mains, I had the hotpot with vegan mash - it was absolutely gorgeous. And they didn't skimp on the fake lamb either, which is what places like this quite often do! My other half had the Butternut Crumble, which he said he enjoyed. Both dishes were very filling, though we still found room for dessert - me having the fruit salad with vegan ice cream and him having the vegan ice cream by itself. Both were nice, but quite overpriced - seeing as I can buy a tub of vegan ice cream from the supermarket for £2.50, I shouldn't have to pay a fiver for it in a restaurant. And also, if they can garnish the fruit salad with a raspberry, why can't they put any in the salad itself?!

Overall though, a good meal. Will definitely be returning in the near future - but avoiding dessert!
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O
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Thursday, July 30, 2009

We went there for lunch. I think the food is over priced, a burger costing £10 I don't think was worth it and there needs to be more proper vegan options.

For £10 I would expect a burger to have a burger inside it (a vegan burger) but it had a few slices of vegetables which tasted OK but it was not filling. Also the sauce on it was only tomato sauce,

I beleive this was because I asked for the vegan option so I got no mayonaisse. Well thats is poor because there are a range of vegan sauces that they could have used.

I also asked for more salad instead of the fries that come with the burgers, well i got half a handful of lettuce. That was not impressive.
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Claudia
4 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, March 24, 2009