Med Kitchen (Covent Garden)

I totally agree! I often travel alone - which means tables by the kitchen, inattentive service... and consequently no tip, by the way. I stumbled upon Med Kitchen when I was just about at my wits end looking for a place to eat on a Saturday evening in May 2010. The service was great - maybe I do have low expectations but they sat me at a table in the window - something to look at instead of the other diners - and never forgot that I was there. Okay, the portions aren't huge - but I like to try a lot of different things. There is nothing worse than an American restaurant with its gigantic portions - of crap food. And this was nothing like. I enjoyed every course - and did not leave hungry though I decided to forego dessert. Oh, and my tip matched my experience... I had to explain that I was leaving that much! I'll be back the next time I'm in London... hopefully soon!
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Tina Earl
9 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 9
Friday, September 03, 2010

I'm somewhat surprised by the negative reviews on this restaurant. I was there recently and found very little wrong with it.

On this occasion, I had been walking for hours, so was pretty tired and achy. I asked if we could be seated at a booth with sofas, rather than hard chairs and the staff were more than happy to oblige. Nothing wrong with the service there. Nor was there any problem with the ordering and speed of service.

Food-wise I felt the portions were slightly on the small side, but I still ended up nicely full. I did feel things were slightly on the bland side, but this wasn't a major problem and certainly not enough to complain about.

I personally liked the atmosphere. It's very similar to other Med Kitchens, as one would expect. Not exactly full of soul, but very pleasant nonetheless. As with all chains, you know what you are getting and this isn't so bad at all.

Price-wise a little expensive for what you get, but, again, not enough to complain about.

The bottom line here is: It's available. You know what you are getting. It does a pretty good job. If I'm at a loose end in the area, I would visit again.
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Alan Ingham - View all reviews by this user
8 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The service was good, very nice attentive and quick to bring my late order. The food was a bit random and I've been on Economy Airlines... disgusting & very tiny portions. Keep well clear of the vile cheesecake unless you've had 25 Peroni's! Don't venture to the loo, the foul shock will send you running. The manager was less than bothered about the very dirty and blocked toilets. Anywhere is better than this. Don't go!
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3 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Friday, March 26, 2010

I ate at the Med with a friend last night and had a great meal. Did the previous reviewers go to the same place?

The service was spot on at all times

We shared an antipasti platter which was great - loved the flame-grilled bread that came with it, too. Duck confit with chorizo & beans was really tasty. My friend had the cod and loved it

We both admit to being foodies and actually went to the Med because we couldn't get in at our first choice so this came as a very pleasant surprise
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NickiNoo
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 9
Friday, February 19, 2010

I went to Med Kitchen last night. It was okay. It's a shame as only a little more care would make all the difference. I asked for a beef burger cooked medium. The waiter said it back as medium rare and he was gone before I had a chance to say hang on a minute. The burger was fine but the uninspired salad alongside and absence of dressing made it pretty dry. The buns however were very well done indeed and the charcoal flavour permeated so much that I gave up on a lot of the bun. It's got one of those annoyongly poncey florid menus where most of the adjectives are things liked pan-fried blah blah and other meaningless guff. Fresh cut fries made us laugh, but the fact that some had discoloured probably meant they weren't as fresh as they said. Service was fine. A lot of my latte ended up in the saucer before it got to me making the sugar packets soggy, although the latte was nice. And there you have it, a few quibbles which could have been easily avoided with just that little more care. The price is fine, but better without the mistakes.
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Sally Carter
6 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

I walk past Med Kitchen every day and it's always looked so appealing to me, so one day my mum and I decided to finally go in there. What a mistake we made! Although service was efficient throughout, that didn't make up for the ordeal we were about to go through.

We both ordered the penne in lemon and olive oil with chicken, broccoli and pine nuts. Sounds lovely, but when it was handed to us barely 10 minutes later, I was beyond disappointed. It looked as bland as it tasted. It was literally a bit of cooked pasta, about 4 hard, barely microwaved florets of broccoli, 4 or so pieces of un-seasoned, cheap, squidgy chicken swimming in a mildly lemon flavoured puddle of water. Oh, with a sprinkling of pine nuts drowning in the bottom. Absolutely not a trace of salt in any of it, and no flavour AT ALL. It was officially THE worst dinner I've ever eaten in my life! And what's worse is that they were going to charge us £9.50 each for it! No way. Never. We sent it back and ordered another 2 dishes, which, amazingly were actually quite tasty. Still nowhere near worth the money though. But then they had the cheek to add a 12.5% service charge to the bill! Service was okay and the waiter was very apologetic, but the chefs, to even think of calling that tasteless pasta-water-broccoli-dish-thing food, must be of equal intelligence to some kind of prehistoric bacterium. Never again.
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Kayleigh K
2 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 0
Monday, February 23, 2009