Editor's Tap — Restaurant in London

Poor pub; bad quality food, service and command of the English language. Visited 2x soon after their opening (Dec 2017); I haven't returned. The Editor’s Tap is NOTHING it portrays itself as. Awful place.

From their website - food: "Passionate about food? So are we – priding ourselves on the quality of our food"

If you consider thin, tasteless burgers accompanied by Aldi-quality buns, powdered (!) and not even thoroughly mixed (!!) cheese sauce (sauce?) to be 'quality'... that statement is true, I guess!

Drink, service, promotions: Let me share a copy of the email I sent to The Editor's Tap following my final visit:

'Seeing as your new endeavour, the Editor's Tap, is titled as such, I assume that if a guest spots something that has been written by your venue, at your venue - and said text is factually incorrect - one should email the management. Hence this email.

The last time I checked the definition of the word 'Friday', I was certain I understood the meaning of the word. Hence my surprise at visiting your venue Friday after having seen a promotion referenced on your website and on your own freshly redecorated (as you've only just opened) wall proudly proclaiming "Friday Fizz Prosecco £15", with smaller typeface, "house or low - calorie". Upon attempting to order said deal Friday, being told rudely by two of your staff that the promotion was "not honored this Friday". I am confident I understand the word 'Friday'. Perhaps your staff and marketing team doesn't, however.

We messaged our friends to inform them of our incident and arranged to meet them elsewhere (at a nearby venue honoring their own "Friday" promotion, because it was indeed Friday).

Not only were we unhappy with the fact that you don't understand the word 'Friday', but also think your staff needs more training.

No proper explanation of the situation on 'Friday' was offered No consolation for having false promotions advertised Staff was rude when we asked for an explanation After seating ourselves at a table we had ordered our food to, we were asked to put a 'reserved' sign upon the table for a staff member. Normally, one would expect to be told the table was booked from X time and that they could find us another table if necessary. Instead, she asked us to put the sign on the table for her then reached across to do so herself. She later bumped a coat off the back of another table's chair, looked at it, but failed to apologise or retrieve it from the floor. You should have seen the looks around that table.

I suggest you either add text to your promotion explaining that 'Friday doesn't mean "Friday"' (ie it is subject to your own conditions), or, you petition to redefine the word 'Friday' in the dictionary. Alternatively, you could honor the promotion you advertise. And your staff indeed needs some proper training on how to handle incidents such as we experienced yesterday.'

I received this reply from the GM (who I'd complained to on the evening):

"As I explained on the night, the promotion came off centrally as it was the festive period and it wasn’t applied the 3 last Fridays of the December so there wasn’t a lot I could do. Please understand as with any promotion, everywhere, management/company has the right to refuse/withdraw any offer at any time without notice, as it states on the drinks/food menu."*

*this was NOT stated on the menu as she claims. We had already checked this.

Also, they claim to do craft beer, but most is canned. It's called The Editor's TAP!

It was as if the Editor's Tap had a £5 translator who simply relied upon Google Translate so you could get the gist of what they intended, but they somehow misunderstood the words 'quality', 'tap', 'craft' and 'Friday', so it doesn't actually made sense. A...

We usually put some research into where we want to eat while traveling, but we tried this place because it's right near where we were staying and we were exhausted from a day out running around.

This was a mistake. I bet it would be great to just grab a drink and watch a game, but the food and service left a lot to be desired.

On the service side, there really isn't any. You have to either download an app to order to your table, or go to the bar with your table number and put it in with the tender. We chose the latter and someone did bring it out to us, and the order was correct. But if you need napkins or anything else that might not already be on the table, you have to get up and get it yourself (not a huge deal, just something to note).

I would also add that because everyone in the bar is doing this, for every food and drink order, there is always a line to put something in, and I only saw two bartenders doing that, so you're gonna wait a bit before you get any food or drink unless you download that awful app.

On the food side, to be fair, I will say we ordered two things that Britain is not known for, Nachos and Pizza. I eat a fair amount of both of these items, pretty much anywhere that offers them, as I like to compare styles and similarities across regions.

We ordered the nachos with BBQ beef added. These nachos might be the worst I've ever had. I know this is gonna sound a bit pretentious, but there was uneven disbursement of the toppings, and what I believe was canned salsa (all on the right side), and pre-packaged guacamole (all on the left side). The "tortilla" chips were super thick and each one shaped almost perfectly, like they had been cooked in a mold. Also, there was barely any cheese on them at all, which I would argue is the main component of nachos.

I am not trying to be mean, but if the owner/chef happens to read this, I sincerely encourage you to take this off the menu, or at least revise it completely. I can't imagine anyone eating this and thinking it was good.

The pizza was alright, although the dough isn't quite what you would expect when ordering pizza, it still wasn't bad. It had a fair amount of toppings, that were again, not really disbursed around the surface area correctly. But this was an average pie all things considered.

Perhaps we got the only poorly curated item on the menu. When looking at the pictures of other items, they do not look so pathetic. I won't be going back to try them though, and perhaps you shouldn't gamble either.

I still maintain that this place would probably be great to just sit and drink while watching a game, you just can't eat nachos...

Came across this large bar whilst wandering around the fringes of the City on a Saturday.

Around 2:30pm and this place was open, with no customers – exactly the type of place I was looking for to have a quiet pint.

Inside, this is a large and modern bar with benches and table seating – there are several televisions, showing sport, and a large octopus on the wall. Weirdly, they also had one of those Spark Booth machines for taking instant photos – I always assumed they were a thing you hired for weddings of children’s parties? They didn’t appear to have any gaming machines that I could see.

The beer was Amstel, as it should be, and reasonably priced for this part of London at around £6.50. I notice this is part of the Stonegate Group though, which means they probably do surge pricing at more popular times so your Amstel may be more, or less, than mine….

Decent looking bar food menu – probably a good place to come after work for pints and fried food.

Convenient for the Royal Courts of Justice – in particular the Rolls Building, which is just down the road...