Blushes Cafe

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Beloved Blushes Site has gone OMG. Sold in 2009 according to the manager Maric ,What a shame its had its soul ripped out but another Chain Patisserie with synthetic cream cakes. A blend of Edgware Road Arabic rather than Italian, Chelsea flower show week and we always go to Blushes its a way of life, or was in Chelsea. We wanted to sit at the front but the space was designated to cake display. The staff were miserable and unfriendly and stressed they could not understand plain English & the manager was no better. The food was slow, bland, warm and very expensive. we will never go back. Get your act together you'll not last as long as the other place.

So the reviews below have nothing to do with the old owners i think. Cant think why the page is still here
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Shy
Overall rating 0 stars
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Thursday, May 26, 2011

As someone who has grown up and lived in London for nearly 30 years, I've had the good fortune to eat in many of the great restaurants the city has to offer. Blushes is most definitely not one of them, unless of course you have an abiding desire to wait all afternoon for an overpriced lunch served by uninterested disingenuous staff and to be left with a salty taste in the mouth that you would normally associate more closely with a night on the tequilas than a spot of afternoon lunch in trendy Sloane Square. The toilets were in a worse state than my local Wetherspoons and frankly the food was worse than the microwave fayre served by everyone's favourite pub chain. I had the pesto chicken pasta, which I'm told had some pesto and chicken in, but which were barely detectable underneath half the saline content of the Dead Sea. Which was just what I wanted having waited nigh on 45 minutes - good work Blushes.

My mother ordered the Chicken Caesar salad from the specials menu only for us to be told upon asking for the bill that we had not explicitly requested the specials version of the Caesar and instead were to be charged more for the A la Carte rendition. Normally I'd be annoyed that this hadn't been pointed out when the Omid Djalili lookalike manager took our order, but I was must have been distracted by the hallucinations brought on by eating 2000% of the average man's RDA of salt. 

I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that the bill had a mandatory 12.5% added on - after all salt doesn't come cheaply and most certainly doesn't pay for itself - but I would, after such exemplary service and impeccable food, have genuinely appreciated being able to give a 20% tip and the keys to my house. In summary if you love salt and things that taste like rubbish, I would advise drinking from the Thames foremost, but if you want to stay dry Blushes provides an ideal alternative. If you want to be shafted by a large bald man, then Soho on a Friday night is probably your best bet, but if it's the middle of the day head down to Sloane Square for a local treasure. Just remember to take a bottle of Jose Cuervo, some lemon and an Amex Black card with you. 
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Mr Salt
Overall rating 0 stars
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Went to Blushes to have Dinner & Cocktails only its not Blushes any more. We wondered why it was so empty for a Saturday, very clever new owners except all the colours and artwork the same even the menu is the same dishes. Poor food, Poor service, Terrible lighting, Nothing like before such a shame Love you miss you Blushes
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Overall rating 2 stars
Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Sunday, June 06, 2010

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