What’s the craic. The queue is round the block for what looks like a fairly ordinary place? Is it amazing / cheap / amazingly cheap? Or just in a guide book?
The one in Throgmorton Street was good. Not been for a few years. The staff had tried to perfect their French accent but if talked to in French the whole facade immediately collapsed.
These reviewers were split between fast easy set menu to absolutely insane faulty towers level service - see 1* reviews. They might be queuing for the entertainment value
Assume there is more than one chain but they are everywhere and have been for years and years. Fixed menu of steak with the sauce, chips and salad and a trolley style desert offering. Reasonable prices. Fun once in a while but wouldn’t queue for it.
The better Cotes (eg Barbican and Hampstead) are probably the overall best value sit down meals in London. Cross that the Islington one has been replaced with some absolutely ludicrously overpriced crap pasta place.
I used to like the throgmorton one back in the day when there were no queues except perhaps Thursday lunch and the service was good. Last time I went on a Friday night with Mrs Verti and there was a massive queue and half the tables were empty. Found a table on my phone at city social and went there for a cote de boeuf instead.
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Pretty shite
All about insta hype
Which is a great marketing tool but generally a sign the food is substandard
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Been there for ages hasn't it? I thought it was meant to be ok
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Round the block queues doesn’t scream out that the food is rubbish - it says hype or cheap or both
lots of nice places nearby and weird people will stand in the pavement for an hour waiting to eat presumably a steak
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If you can’t book and there aren’t enough for walkups it’s run by c unts
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The steak frites looks great on the website, but this real world photo looks worse than a risky double plate special.
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The one in Throgmorton Street was good. Not been for a few years. The staff had tried to perfect their French accent but if talked to in French the whole facade immediately collapsed.
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Relais? They have then in France too, and they queue there too. The meat is from Donald Russell. Personally not keen. The sauce is meh.
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These reviewers were split between fast easy set menu to absolutely insane faulty towers level service - see 1* reviews. They might be queuing for the entertainment value
https://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/le-relais-de-venise-lentrecote…
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Looks a total joke. Suit you.
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Shut up laz
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Assume there is more than one chain but they are everywhere and have been for years and years. Fixed menu of steak with the sauce, chips and salad and a trolley style desert offering. Reasonable prices. Fun once in a while but wouldn’t queue for it.
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I always thought the steak frites at a decent Cote was best value steak in London at £15.00
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Oo I love a dessert trolley
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Been once, was a perfectly acceptable steak-frites. McDonalds for rich people.
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I think one in the city and one in w1. That's all in the UK afaik
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I would never queue to eat anywhere, QV Dishoom - why anyone queues for Dishoom beggars belief.
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what if Zac was there. Would you queue to eat chips off his belly?
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No, I don't find mixing eating and sex in any way erotic.
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what if his only terms were "smoked salmon and (cooled) scrambled eggs off his nethers"?
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Right whinge deviants are fully weird.
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I would decline even Zac.
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isn't rof more of a Nusr-Et kind of crowd?
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The better Cotes (eg Barbican and Hampstead) are probably the overall best value sit down meals in London. Cross that the Islington one has been replaced with some absolutely ludicrously overpriced crap pasta place.
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I used to like the throgmorton one back in the day when there were no queues except perhaps Thursday lunch and the service was good. Last time I went on a Friday night with Mrs Verti and there was a massive queue and half the tables were empty. Found a table on my phone at city social and went there for a cote de boeuf instead.
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