Strada (Mayfair)

Its quick, cheap, easy and most importantly yummy...nice place to go with girlfriends or pre or post drinks in town!
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patsy
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Food 9 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Well, I regularly visit this particular branch as well as the Blackheath branch and have never been dissappointed. The pizzas, as most agree, are simply the best around and I have been converted from pizza express. As for the rest of the offer, bottled water at the table, replaced as soon as it is emptied is a fantastic service. I use to share the gamberoni starter with my boyfriend, but cant bear to anymore as its so delicious and don't even get me started on the desserts! I frequent many London restaurants paying from £10 per head up to £100 per head but I always find Strada reliable, well-priced and a great place to eat with groups of friends.
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Heather - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Arrived there, sat dawn and 5 seconds later were asked if we had decided what we want to drink. The starter arrived 4 minutes later and the main course arrived when we were not even through half of our starters.

In order to turn over as much money as possible in the shortest possible time we were asked if we want another glass of wine when we had drunk not even a quarter of our glasses of wine.

Not a very nice dinner experiance.
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Ryan
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Food 5 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 3
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Pizza is excellent, everything else on the menu is very average. The quality of service varies from branch to branch and indeed from person to person within any of the restaurants. In this particular branch some of the waiting staff have a very off-putting and unhygienic habit of, when cleaning just-vacated tables, instead of just wiping them down, spraying cleaning fluids in a careless fashion right next to occupied tables where other customers are eating. To have a pizza 'decorated' in this way does not enhance the taste. The tables in Strada restaurants are very close together and this is completely unacceptable and is quite possibly a health and safety issue.
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Franco Bonzi
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Food 7 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 5
Sunday, September 24, 2006

I used to like this place.

Ok it was a very busy lunch time, but why do some places alwys take on more dinners than they can feed.

The waitress had difficulty understanding our order and spat when she spoke. Not a good start.

We then began to wait.We then began to drink the wine. Tables arrond us remained uncleared. The nine year old began to moan. We drank more wine.

Finally a plate arrived. Very very cold and thickly sliced mozzaraella and tomato.

Agained we waited and waited for main courses. Finished wine. Contemplated eating napkin. or nine year old child. Manager apologised but still no food. Finally another waitress, unable to speak anything we could understand arrived at our table with three plates. One spag with prawns totally cold. One with tomato also had some mysterious fish on it. The other for no reason was totally plain and not what we ordered. By now, we had been waiting more than an hour , only eating the manager would have been satisfactory. We left without paying for anything.
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Claire Marshall
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The pizza is fantastic. Better than anywhere I know in the UK. I've never had a 'just OK' pizza from Strada, let alone a bad one and nor has anyone I've been with.

Service is friendly and efficient. It's nice to get a bottle of water on arrival and without asking for it, but the complimentary breadsticks are no more. But hey, they provide chilli olive oil, which is a great redeemer!

Price for 2 (aglio + pizza + drink) £28 incuding tip, which is OK but not great. And the tip is the only bad thing about Strada - the bill says something like 'an optional 12.5% gratuity is suggested' and you see before and after amounts on your bill. But the change returned is based on the gross amount so unless you want to complain, you've been shafted. This, IMO, is underhand and left a bad aftertaste for an otherwise good food experience.
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Paul Graham
Thursday, October 27, 2005

Went there last Bank Holiday (29th Aug 05). 8 of us at short notice. Excellent range of menue, all dishes spot on, friendly and attentive service and spot on value. Been before a couple of times and the same experience. Been to other branches - Exmouth, Blackheath - and the same experience.
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Farrakh
Tuesday, September 06, 2005