FIGO Leyton — Restaurant in London

As a starter we had Calamari and Carpaccio. Calamari was a bit disapointment because were touhg (rubbery, especially small pieces), tastewise and presentation was good but next time I rather choose differernt starter, however Carpaccio was delicous, no stringy stuff stucked between your teeth. Light and tender, melt in your mouth beef. I recommend a little drizzle with their house garlic oil. For main we had pizza Burrata and Seabass. Pizza was very nice, thin and crispy dough, fresh ingredients, huge creamy Burrata in the middle just spot on! Seabass was a star for me. Presentation was pretty decent, nice three fillets of juicy seabass with delicate crispy skin and the garnish with it was just completing the dish so well. Honestly the best seabass in London I had so far. For dessert we chose banoffee pie, that was outstanding sweet dot. Very well balanced not too sweet or heavy on cream, also presentation was eye catching. As a cocktails we had Sour and Old Cuban both were flavourfull and very well presented. Overall good atmosphere friendly and caring stuff, minimum waiting time everything was just right, except the Calamari. Anyway already thinking about what we gonna have next time when we visit, I believe it will be soon.

Update: After one year (today) was there to get the Filetto di spigola, take away, and one whisky sour while I wait. Drink tasted nice but lot of ice, that means less liquid, actually you get glass full of ice cubes which isn't dressed with care, no dried lemon and sweet cherries on top as it was year ago. Filetto di spigola was okay but there is no potatoes anymore which I liked very much last year. Too much rainbow orchard which was just garlic flavor, no other seasoning. The cuttlefish tuil looked like scraps from bottom of barbeque. Not worth the...

Went last night (Friday) with my partner. The restaurant was mostly full and it was very loud; could barely hear my girlfriend who was across the table. I think perhaps they could put some things on the walls to dampen the sound as it was past being lively to being uncomfortable.

The waiter took a while to attend us and didn't write our order down, which led to them bringing the wrong starter for one of us and completely forgetting the second. Also didn't bring the water requested and he had to be reminded.

No apologies offered.

After finishing the starter it took about 40 minutes for the mains to arrive, despite it being only two pasta dishes.

After taking away our mains dishes we weren't offered desserts or coffee and we had to flag down a waiter to pay our bill.

Two drinks (one alcoholic), two starters and two mains came to £60.

They then had the audacity to add a service charge of 12.5%, despite not offering to refill drinks, no checking on our food, getting the order wrong and the delays in service. I don't mind tipping but only when the service is good, and especially not when the service is sub-par.

The food was nice enough but not worth the price.

Won't be...

Unfortunately the bottom line is this place is SO overpriced and the food quality doesn't justify it.

As others have said it's very loud when full / if the front isn't open, to the point that our table of three were struggling to hear each other throughout the meal. I can see below that Figo have themselves acknowledged the issues with the noise, but not made any efforts to turn down the music or add more sound dampening.

The service staff seemed overworked: they forgot our water and brought our bread late (after our mains). Our bread basket included two small stale poppadoms (?) and the espresso martini tasted like acetone and cost a tenner.

Generally, I agree with what many have said: the food wasn't bad, but it was so aggressively 'fine' that when they are charging £8+ for starters alone and slapping a mandatory 12% service charge onto every bill, any decent eating experience were replaced by a bitter taste.

Given this is in an area where around 40% of children live in poverty, AND where there are still nice cheap hidden gems you could eat at instead, there's really no point giving this offensively overpriced...