Coopers

Restaurant is a pleasant atmosphere and seating very comfortable.

Food is good and well presented, pricewise fairly standard for central London.

Service was horrible. Staff are abrupt and totally disinterested. Nobody asked at any point during 3 courses and coffee...."is everything ok?" which is fairly basic for today. We asked for another bottle of wine.....It was delivered to the table and not poured, nor placed in the ice bucket but banged down onto the table and left.

All the staff have the same attitude and the restaurant is badly let down by the cold and loathing manner of the employees.
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5 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 6
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Coming out of a talk at the LSE on Tuesday night, stumbled upon Coopers. Had a wonderful evening! Food was excellent, service impeccable and ever so friendly and all in all a lovely, lovely evening.
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8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Excellent food. Excellent service.

Thoroughly recommended
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9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Friday, February 18, 2011

I don't agree with these comments from a couple of people here about the service. This is a very busy place at lunchtime with lots of regulars. Service is efficient, meaning that it's a safe bet for a quick business lunch if in a rush (although it's also fine to take your time). There's no hanging around for service, so the staff are perhaps fairly direct, but that's exactly what most of the regulars want. It's certainly not rude. If you prefer pampering, try one of the tourist joints around Covent Garden, but it will be difficult to match the food here. Or come out of peak hours and the staff will be charming.
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JR - View all reviews by this user
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Monday, April 26, 2010

I was invited for a business lunch at Coopers. Well located near my office and just off the Lincoln's Inn. We talked a lot so I do not recall dishes we ate, but the food was generally good. Unfortunately the service was a real problem. The lady in charge was straight up rude in a brusk sort of "what are you doing making my life difficult way". One example illustrates this well. She was taking our order when two business lunchers arrived and started to go down stairs. Over her shoulder she shouts "hoi" and then "You, where are you going". When they said they were going down stairs, the response was "Its not open. You will have to eat up here".
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Andrew
5 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 5
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

I had an informal business lunch there. I have to say that the food was distinctly average. The prawn and crayfish cocktail starter was by far the best of the three dishes I had with plenty of fish and a very tasty sauce. This raised my expectations for the rest of the meal which sadly were then not met. The salmon had little taste and an over-cooked skin, and this was not helped at all by the bland pea gloop it was sat in. The lime cheesecake had a strange texture, lacking in density and supported by gelatine which made it very wobbly. There was a distinct lack of limeyness as well - I was expecting much more of a hit.

Service was OK. The space was quite cold, and the choice of material for the table tops was unusual to say the least (especially as my host was a maker of fine furniture).

Nothing desperately bad, but nothing to impress either - I wouldn't be rushing back.
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Jason Brameld
5 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 4
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Excellent food - terrible service.

Staff in general were rude; perhaps because we did not fit exaclty with the rest of the clientele?

Who knows, either way we were unimpressed and shan't be visiting again.

Paid less than the service charge too; this got right up their noses.
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KLW
4 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 3
Thursday, September 24, 2009