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It's the Waterloo restaurant thread again

Mind you, if we're going for set menus only, we could go to the Oxo Tower and have the seasonal set menu for £21.50 for two courses in the brasserie. (Do you have to use the lifts at the Oxo Tower? I'm not big on lifts)

But I kind of don't want to have to say to her "you can only have this, this and this", or mentally tot up the cost while we're ordering... It might be better to go somewhere cheaper where we can have anything.
 
RubyToogood said:
Mind you, if we're going for set menus only, we could go to the Oxo Tower and have the seasonal set menu for £21.50 for two courses in the brasserie. (Do you have to use the lifts at the Oxo Tower? I'm not big on lifts)

But I kind of don't want to have to say to her "you can only have this, this and this", or mentally tot up the cost while we're ordering... It might be better to go somewhere cheaper where we can have anything.
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I hated the Oxo Tower when I went. They were really snooty and treated me and my dad with a great deal of suspicion like there was no way we could possibly afford it or something. I mean, my dad is a bit scruffy, and I'm not exactly 'groomed' but honestly it was really outrageous the way they behaved. We'd booked the restaurant. I arrived first and they'd got our name wrong on the booking. At first they insisted that we couldn't possibly be booked into the restaurant and didn't we mean the brasserie "which is cheaper". My dad arrived seperately and was ushered into the brasserie. When he couldn't see me there he tried to walk through to the restaurant but was stopped by the staff. They wouldn't let him through and insisted on phoning through to the restaurant to check the booking. Which they couldn't find because they'd got the name wrong on the booking :mad:

After all that the food wasn't great and the service was awful.

This was years ago mind, so hopefully, especially given the current economic climate, they've improved their welcome.
 
I went to the Oxo tower restaurant when it first opened and thought it was shit.

Some friends like the brasserie and go once in a while but I never join them as I was so unimpressed with the restaurant. I think they've done the restaurant too, and liked it.
 
I've consulted the birthday girl again, and she doesn't have strong opinions on what she wants to do, other than that she probably doesn't need a 27 course banquet as she'll be having a big meal in the evening and that she likes sushi and you can't get it in Jersey. She also suggested going to Borough Market and just grazing, as she's never been, if it wasn't too much effort to get there from Waterloo. I'm not really a fan of Borough Market, but it shouldn't be too packed on a Fri at least.

Gaijingirl, what's Feng Sushi like to sit in, as a restaurant?
 
Feng Sushi in Borough has high communal bench type seating, iirc. Not especially celebratory but the food is fine. Wine Wharf, a bit further down towards Vinopolis has quite nice food and is very spacious and airy inside. You could also try Brindisa, but it's likely to be packed on a Friday. I really like Madgalen, a short walk from Borough down Tooley Street, but not sure what their lunchtime deal is like.

I've never been, but I quite like the look of North Bank, opposite the Tate Modern.
 
I meant the Feng Sushi in Waterloo really, as I think if we get as far as Borough we'll probably just graze from the stalls.
 
There is not a lot in Waterloo I like but inshoku on lower marsh is resonable for price locatioin and something ethnicly different.
 
There are a couple of restaurants in a pedestrian area by the railway arches under the line running into Waterloo East Station. About of 50 yards North of the Cut behind the Young Vic.
One is a sort of Turkish Tapas / Deli that was great, I think the one next to it was an Italian - very busy. It is one of those hidden gem type places that you wouldn't guess was there. Very continental pavement cafe set up - delightful.
 
that's EV - run by the same people as Taz. Pretty much the same menu and set-up to be honest. next door to that is jacks, which does burgers, chips etc. and beyond that, thai silk, which should be obvious what they serve.

i quite like ruby marsh, which is on lower marsh: there are a couple of fairly decent sushi places down there as well - not amazing, but not too shabby.

i quite like waterloo bar and kitchen, never been disappointed by anything i have had there: http://www.barandkitchen.co.uk/ It's on waterloo road, just behind the old vic.

just in case you are interested in some star spotting, I have seen pete postelthwaite at the windmill pub on the cut every friday afternoon from about 3.30 ish.
 
hektik said:
that's EV - run by the same people as Taz. Pretty much the same menu and set-up to be honest. next door to that is jacks, which does burgers, chips etc. and beyond that, thai silk, which should be obvious what they serve.

i quite like ruby marsh, which is on lower marsh: there are a couple of fairly decent sushi places down there as well - not amazing, but not too shabby.

i quite like waterloo bar and kitchen, never been disappointed by anything i have had there: http://www.barandkitchen.co.uk/ It's on waterloo road, just behind the old vic.

just in case you are interested in some star spotting, I have seen pete postelthwaite at the windmill pub on the cut every friday afternoon from about 3.30 ish.
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Yeah, I used to live over the road. That pub is always smattered with famous types.

In case anyone else hasn't said this, do NOT go to the Firestation unless you want tepid, overpriced food and a waitress who is too scared of her manager to top up pints to the legal level.
 
I really like Ev, but you won't get much benefit out of the beautiful container garden unless it's warm enough to sit outside (or either of you is a hyper keen gardener.) The food is not exceptional but it is varied and not too expensive,

NEVER, EVER eat at Cubana unless it's the only way to save yourself from terminal alcohol poisoning - it's not Cuban, it's not cheap and it's really not very nice.
 
Feng Sushi in Waterloo is very similar to the one in Borough but with mostly normal level tables (not the high ones they have in Borough) and an actual front window and door (as opposed to the plastic sheeting stuff in Borough... :D).

I really like it - it's not "cosy" especially - more wooden floors/tables etc, but there's plenty of space between tables and our waiter was FAB - although of course there's no guarantees you'd get him.

They do have a very good menu. I had actually arranged to do some business with them through work recently and was let down quite badly by their head chef. (I was taking a group of girls for a sushi making course and got an email pretty much the morning of the trip to say she was cancelling - cue 20 teenage girls meeting me in their own clothes at Brixton tube 9am on a Monday morning with nowhere to go... :mad:) Yet, the food is yum enough that I've sold out completely and gone back many a time despite my protests that I would never go again!!
 
I really like Ev too - I know it's run by the same people as Tas - but I've always enjoyed it there much more. The bar there is nice too.
 
It all worked out quite well in the end. We did go to Borough, got there at the tail end of the lunchtime rush and hid in Feng Sushi till the crowds had eased off. Had a light sushi lunch and then pottered round the market, topping up with cheese samples and cakes. We got the world's nicest Chelsea buns from the Flour Station stall. I don't know how a mere Chelsea bun can be made to taste so good but they were heavenly. We forewent chocolate brownies for them!

I'd never been there before on a Friday and it's SO much nicer than on Saturday. Plus, as a special birthday treat type occasion, I felt less incensed than usual by the extravagance of it all.
 
those chelsea buns were amazing: I was at borough market at midday, buyign some organic booze as a pressie for someone, and they were givign out samples of those buns.

had the intended affect. they were amazing!
 
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