Balham Kitchen and Bar review by LD
It is amazing to me that this place is still busy – the only explanation I can come up with is that Balham is seriously lacking in decent restaurants otherwise why would people come back? The service is so appalling that I have no hesitation in saying that I think Balham Bar and Kitchen has worst service staff in London. They are rude and obnoxious and with no manners whatsoever. I have been here twice and only after much convincing did I dine here a second time. On my recent visit, we were ignored for a good 10 minutes before a snooty waiter came up and growled at us: "Have you booked?!" We had, much to his disppointment, and we were then seated near the open kitchen where the service bell went off repeatedly and billowing smoke from the kitchen hovered above us and clung to our clothes. We had about 4 different waiters over the course of the evening and while the food wasn't awful (well, you can't really go wrong with a burger and chips), it wasn't anything to write home about. My main objection to this place is the rude, rude, rude staff. How do they become so sneeringly awful. Like pretty much all of the reviewers here I will never ever go back.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Overall rating 
Food 6 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 2
review comments
I have to agree with you LD about the service at BKB. I have been treated like absolute rubbish there on two seperate occasions. I just don't know how they get off thinking that they are so "cool". I do have to disagree about there being no great restaurants in Balham, however.
There's The Exhibit which has a great restaurant where the service is excellent, the food's way better than BKB and the environment is way more fun....... or for a little more sophisticated, albeit more expensive experience, there's Lambert's where the food and service is equally as good as The Exhibit's but in more of a fine dining atmosphere.
Give them both a try.... there worth it!!!!
MP - Monday, April 30, 2007
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