George of Greenwich

Disappointing to say the least.

Food was both overpriced and undercooked. We ordered baked potatoes and neither were properly cooked, very stingy on the beans and far too much cheese for my taste. Pretty basic food to be getting wrong.

They were served with a pretty horrible bagged salad (at least a day old) which was limp and browning, which didn't even have any dressing on it. Also the potatoes were served on a smaller plate inside a big one which didn't help with the wonky table!

Service was pretty cold (not even a smile) and no friendly atmosphere to speak of. The two guys in there seemed more concerned about what music they had on, than any work. I can understand why it was so empty

The menu seemed quite strange as well, a chicken curry baked potato, I'm not sure whether they are trying to cater for students or even if they know what they are doing.

The only positive I can really think of was the cappucino, which was actually pretty good.

In the location it is in it is disappointing because it has so much potential.
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Another awful experience. Upon ordering our food we recieved no smile or eye contact from the waitress who took the order. We ordered pre-made paninis which only needed toasting. After paying at the register they gave me a reciept then walked away - no gesture to take a seat and they wil bring the food out and no indication of how long it would take to toast. We took a seat and waited. After 15 minutes we were wondering 'how long it possibly takes to toast a panini' and perhaps it had gotten lost because they have no idea if we were seated inside or out, I asked a waitress how long our food may be and she defensivley snapped back 'it usually takes about 10minutes' and walked away. A few moments later she arrived with our paninis and plonked them down on the table in front of us and abruptly asked 'are these yours'? As she walked away I caught her roll her eyes and pull a face. How rude, even if I was being a difficult customer that is not excusable! The panini's were dry, not very tasty and overpriced. I would not recommend it.
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Jessica Alo
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Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Monday, April 02, 2007

Awful experience! I ordered a ham and cheese panini (served with tomato and mustard) and my boyfriend ordered the Italian beef and requested mozzarella rather than gorgonzola cheese.

The first issue was that the food took too long to arrive. 20 minutes after ordering, my food arrived and it was a further 10 minutes before my boyfriend’s food arrived, at which point mine was starting to get cold. We were surprised that the paninis were quite small but even more surprised to see the content (or lack of). When I took a bite of the ham and cheese panini I was overwhelmed by the amount of mustard that had been included and actually felt as if my throat was on fire. Opening the panini to scrape some of the mustard out I noticed that I had half a slice of tomato in each half, a very small amount of ham and again very little cheese, in fact the cheese was only on the edge which gave the effect of overflowing.

My boyfriend’s panini included gorgonzola rather than the mozzarella that he had requested.

As you will note, this was not a satisfactory visit and we left the deli extremely hungry and unhappy!!
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Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Monday, January 09, 2006

This deli in central Greenwich looks attractive but the one time I decided to visit it for a coffee and a panini, I was bitterly disappointed. Everything is overpriced, the service was so slow I almost left and the content of sandwiches, as another reviewer said, was pretty poor.

Thumbs down.
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Food 5 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 2
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

We really enjoyed eating at this fabulous little deli-cafe. The service was very friendly. We ate the panninis and they were made up of gorgeous fresh ingredients. We did not see any of the stingyness referred to by another reviewer.

The coffee was perfectly made from Fair Trade beans (of all things) so we had seconds. We also had take out cakes becuase we ran out of space for their delicious fayre.

If you find Greenwich is wearing you down, treat yourself to this little luxury.
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L-A Laurence
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Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 7
Saturday, December 03, 2005

Underwhelmed.

Waited far to long for baquettes to arrive at a time when they were not very busy & when they did content was very stingy. In a cheese salad baguette the cheese was so thin you could almost see throught it. Similar in the roast beef version.
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Ian Rollings
Saturday, October 08, 2005