The Otherist — Restaurant in London

A very popular venue for after work drinks. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are on offer throughout the day, although only visited for drinks.

It gets very busy and crowded after work, however the crowd quickly dies down from around 8pm. Bar is pricey.

This place is nicely decorated, I would say contemporary chic, it's quite big, lots of comfortable seating for dining. Can be classed as intimate and cosy. Gorgeous wall gardens (not real) and nice mood lighting.

There are two entrances/exists. There is an upper ground. The facilities are well maintained and clean. Staff are helpful and quick to serve, it would help though if staff used the entire length of the bar to serve instead of congregating to...

Good food - zero service!

You would think that a table for two, mid-week would be a very easy on to please... Sadly this was not the case. After being warmly welcomed, we were left to ourselves, and from there completely forgotten. We had to ask for water, to order and even for our plates to be taken, which was addressed with a roll of eyes from our very bored looking waitress. I asked to have the "discretionary" service removed, but even that did not prompt a response from the team as to why we were disgruntled.

The food was fine, but in central London just before Christmas there a million and one better places than here, with staff that want you...

First of all it is very very cold inside, I had to wear my coat. I was disappointed that for such a big reservation - 20 people, there was literally no one around so you can ask for things.

The drinks came after 40 mins, mostly bottles of wine and water, didn't understand why it took so long.

Starters after 55 mins, people were already starving as this was a lunch break.

The mains came after 1 hour and 30 minutes (bear in mind that there were people that didn't have starters) after all this time, they were almost crying.

I had high hopes when I entered the restaurant, but I was very disappointed and unimpressed in the end. I will...