Bistro Italiano in City of London, Westminster

Casi me olvido de compartir la calidad de la comida que el bistro ha estado sirviendo, es uno de los mejores restaurantes italianos que salen de nuestra ciudad, he visto gente de arriba a abajo, pero el restaurante siempre ha estado ofreciendo la misma calidad de comida y servicio. , es realmente increíble para alguien que lo haga

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Ett första klass ställe med Italienska tapas. Bästa tänkbara service. God mat. Inte långt från Covent Garden

La comida deliciosa! Absolutamente fantásticos sabores. Los chefs tienen lo justo.Sin duda volveremos, ya que era la primera vez que visitaba.El personal podría haber sido un poco más amable pero no me deje gratitud, porque de esto porque me pareció que no quería que mi compañero y estar allí.El outshun la mala educación del personal! :)En resumen: muy buen estado.

Como otros, me hubiese gustado leer los comentarios. Pedí una pinta de cerveza, pero no hacer - proyecto me ofreció una botella de cerveza, la selección de sólo 3. Mi esposa pidió un gin bitter lemon - no bitter lemon - "naranja fresco entonces?" "No hacer eso tampoco." Ella tenía un vino de alrededor de £6 (más el 12,5 % para llevar a). Mi pescado y patatas fritas? Pescado congelado y exageradas, patatas fritas congeladas, guisantes congelados - tenían la audacia para pedir un 12,5 % cargo por el servicio de llevar alimentos desde el congelador y profunda para freír. Mi esposa es hamburguesa era también seco y exageradas. Pedí el servicio que se deducirán, pero que no era su política para hacer eso. Estancia bien claro. Clasificación es realmente un cero!

Although the staff is very nice and friendly, the food is terrible and the prices they charge are absolutely atrocious, it's a rip off pure and simple.

We had a great time. Our first choice restaurant had lost our order and we were late for the theatre. This place saved us, they rushed around and served us really quickly with lovely friendly staff who were quirky, honest and up-front. £12.50 for the West End? Come on that's not bad. Go Bistro Italiano!

Disgusting food, overbearing service. Just don't go here. I can't warn you enough. Go somewhere else no matter how hungry or desperate you are!!

Yo casi entramos en pasado cuando alguien salió desde el Bistro "explicar el menú". Ya me decidí a ir.Una vez estás sentado descubre que los menús son en 355 € piezas de papel - nuevo esto debería haber me advirtió.La comida es cara para lo que te dan, incluso para esta zona de Londres. El vino es sin duda de una botella decente. Tuve una Bruchetta como entrante y parecía un niño porción, mientras que tener poco sabor.

Si pudiera Resultado esta cosa más bajos que, cosa porque no puede ser clasificado como un restaurante. Sólo puedo repetir los comentarios anteriores, está situado muy cerca de la salida de la calle Aldwych Theatre y en la oscuridad aparece acogedora, eso es donde termina. Tuvimos un desagradable pizza del tamaño de su mano obviamente pre comprado, una camarera ininteligible, cálido cerveza y sorprendentes factura por el servicio, sólo un timo. Hay tan msny restaurantes que rodean este confía en mí cambiar, es una vergüenza completa a todos los otros restaurantes en los alrededores de los que hay muchos, por lo menos con cadenas de restaurantes, sabes lo que estás haciendo. Aléjate.

Je me suis arrêté dans ce petit restaurant avec mes 2 fils , car je pensais manger de la bonne cuisine italienne .En faite c'est pas cuisiné, on dirait des plats a emporter réchauffés .Clients français attention , vérifiez si le serveur n'a pas compté son pourboire sur l'addition . Pour ma part il n'a pas été honnête , je lui ai laissé 20% de pourboire , sans regarder qu'il avait déjà facturé sur la note !!! Total pour trois , 60 livres pour, 1 hamburger , 2 menus a 9,95 livres , 1 bière et 2 cocas!!!

Me hubiera gustado haber leído estas críticas primero. Acabo de una matinal en el teatro Royal enfrente, estuvimos en una prisa para comer una cena temprana antes de nuestra casa de tren. Elegí filete de atún y patatas fritas y mi hija eligió polpetto de pollo (creo que eso es lo que lo llaman - básicamente albóndigas con patatas puré todo ellos). Mi atún tenía algún tipo de salsa, que estaba bien, pero no lo suficiente como el atún había sido hecha y era muy seco. El polpetto vino - 3 albóndigas insípida y arroz al vapor. Realmente era terrible por £13,95 . Claramente aprovechar el hecho de que están cerca del teatro y sacar a la gente en (la camarera se quedó fuera del menú personas galán planchador, como hacen en el continente, un buen restaurante no tienes que hacer que debería haberse percatado). El servicio fue en mi opinión, pobre y nadie vino a ver si todo estaba bien, terrible en la industria de servicios.Los inodoros a propósito son espantosas (un inodoro cada uno), señoras mente su cabeza en las escaleras sobre su cabeza, y están justo al lado de la cocina - la cocina puerta tiene un ventilador justo a través de la puerta, así que debe recoger algunos mal aire y gérmenes - sorprendido Londres comida normas no cierran.

No sólo la comida obviamente compran y asqueroso, pero encontraron cada posible excusa para escanear fuera de dinero. Anunciaron un 'mínimo £10 comida cargo" pero no incluye las bebidas extorsionate! luego pagan un 12,5 % adicional de servicio aunque el servicio era pésimo. eran groseros y sórdidas y cuando nos sostuvieron contra los cargos se convirtieron en tan pocas se portaba. La comida era asquerosa. El servicio es grosero. Nunca ir aquí

tavoli stretti , cibo orrendo , gestore spiacevole .

My Spaghetti alla carbonara was fine, but the Smoked Salmon starter was a really tiny portion and they had just 'flung' the Ice Cream into dish! Will only return there, for a glass of wine and to shelter, if it's raining !

We popped into here for an 'express' pre theatre meal before seeing the Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre. The food looked reasonable value on the menu outside but we should have realised something wasn't right as the place was empty. Unfortunately hadn't seen the reviews but have to agree with them whole heartly as this was one of the worst meals we have ever had. The food was terrible - the pizza's we had were just really really cheap frozen pizza's warmed through. The pasta was again the cheap dried variety with cheap sauce over the top. To say what the meal cost us was expecting something decent. The drinks were very expensive. Don't know how they get away with it. My advice is don't go there.

Quite simply the worst restaurant experience I have ever had. I was charged £12.50 for cod and chips and it is the first time I have ever, on being asked how we were enjoying our meal, stated that I expected a lot better if I am being asked to pay that amount for a meal. My perception of the restaurant is they have little or no interest in providing a pleasurable food experience. They are simply taking advantage of their position and proximity to Convent Garden and the surrounding theatre's to take advantage of tourists and visitors alike on the basis that whilst we will never return to the establishment there are an infinite number of people passing through London who will not have the experience of hindsight. I do plan writing to both the restaurant and Westminster Council directly to express my disappointment but recognise I will have to chalk this one down to experience and hope others read this review and avoid the experience we had.

Quite simply the worst restaurant experience I have ever had. I was charged £12.50 for cod and chips and it is the first time I have ever, on being asked how we were enjoying our meal, stated that I expected a lot better if I am being asked to pay that amount for a meal. Both my son and sister-in-law were forced to struggle through undercooked chicken, and both burgers that were ordered came with half melted cheese; clearly the staff really do not care. My perception of the restaurant is they have little or no interest in providing a pleasurable food experience. They are simply taking advantage of their position and proximity to Convent Garden and the surrounding theatre's to take advantage of tourists and visitors alike on the basis that whilst we will never return to the establishment there are an infinite number of people passing through London who will not have the experience of hindsight. I do plan writing to both the restaurant and Westminster Council directly to express my disappointment but recognise I will have to chalk this one down to experience and hope others read this review and avoid the experience we had.

Fortunately, we hadn't read these scathing reviews before having a late night dinner here. Decent spaghetti and penne pasta for the spouse. Nice warm chicken on a fresh salad for me. Thought it was decent and the service was good.

Well, in this restaurant they manage to screw up even the most simple of all pizza's. What more can I say? West End area, so all customers want to eat before the show starts. But that should be no excuse to sell poor quality food. The airco is programmed at freezing, so you will leave ASAP to vacate your table for yet another victim....

I have to say that I did not read previous reviews on this restaurant so I think we were lucky to have had a better experience than most, our lunches of one pasta meal from the specials menu and a bacon salad which looked and tasted fresh, the sweet of tiramisu was really good as was the chocolate fudge cake, service was attentive and friendly, I suppose the bill was average for somewhere in the west end of London the downside is the rest rooms which are in a poor condition they definitely need refurbishment.

This small restaurant looks very tempting as you pass by.. Keep on walking.. There are plenty of offer restaurants around. The staff really don't want to be bothered with customers disturbing them. The food was tasteless.... and.. not at all what we expected...

Like other reviewers, we were looking for a pre-theatre meal and this was the only place without a queue. Think about that. We got the same patter about not selling anything white but Pino Grigio by the glass and ordered it, but it was undrinkable, not chilled enough and tasted as if the bottle had been opened a week. I had a green salad (supermarket bag, no doubt, with a lemon wedge and a few bits of parmesan, tomato and cucumber, with a supermarket dressing). My partner had pasta Arabbiata, the sauce looking like remarkably like something from a jar. I asked for bread with my salad, and got a small toasted roll. My partner paid the bill without checking and we found we'd been charged £32 for this awful meal. 1 course each and undrinkable wine. Shocking. Most Italian restaurants I've been to are run by people who care about food and want to please. But I suppose you can get away with this standard if you don't rely on repeat business.

We were hungry tired and taken advantage of in London. While the pizza was only GBP 8, they charged us GBP 15 for 2 bottles of still water. Noone else was in the place @ 8pm which should have been our warning sign. Should be shut down.

Unfortunately we hadn't read the Trip Advisor reviews of this restaurant otherwise we would have avoided it like the plague! We were in the Covent Garden area looking for a pre theatre meal and as we had been searching for somewhere to eat before going to the theatre with little success we were pleased to be able to get a table in this restaurant. Oh dear what a mistake we were shown to tiny table and offered a drink to start with, this was a glass of Spanish red wine, which was not particularly good and very over priced at £6.50. a glass, this turned out to be the "best" part of the meal! We were not very hungry so chose pasta dishes, I had penne pasta with "homemade" tomato sauce which was horrible, the pasta was dry and overcooked and the sauce was in edible, it was extremely bitter and was certainly NOT home made. I asked for some Parmesan hoping to make it more palatable but it was like sprinkling sawdust on it. After a few mouthfuls I gave up, my husband had the same thing with four small pieces of card board chicken on the top!!!! The bill for this awfulness was £37.00. We were not the only people in the restaurant who were unhappy, there were mutterings all around us about how bad it was. Don't waste your money going here.

Went into this restaurant, as we could not get in any where else for a pre-theatre meal. What a mistake.My friend's ordered starters; garlic dough balls and a selection of breads. When the starters arrived, the dough balls was a flat bread with garlic butter and the selection of bread was poor quality ciabatta.We assumed the selection of bread, was one slice was more stale than the other. When enquired to the order of the dough balls, the waiter replied, "the flat bread was made from dough balls". How do you respond to that? After a long wait the mains arrived to the table. One main was meat balls in a tomatoe sauce with rice.This was a large plate of rice and 3 meat balls in a sauce. Not very appetising. My friend left the meat balls, as these were full of gristle. The other main was a bowl of pasta with cream/mushroom sauce. Again, the meal did not look appestising, with minimal topping.I had ordered chicken pizza and got a calzone. The waiter said he will change the meal, in which I replied, forget it, we do not have time. To my surprise even after saying forget it, the pizza arrived at the table in 5 minutes.To be fair the pizza was average, though I was charged for the calzone. We did not have time to dispute.Service and food quality very poor. I am appalled such businesses can exist. I suppose based on the foot fall in London, restaurants can get away with conning the public.

After all there haunting reviews about frozen pizzas, high price and bad food, it was really enjoyable. I was really surprised on the quality of the food ,the pizza has a very unique and enjoyable taste Service was a bit slow but then again it was very busy I will defiantly be back next time I visit central London.

I recently popped into this errr restaurant lol before attending the Duchess Theatre which is directly next door to see my mate perform with the RSC. Let's begin:THE ISSUE WITH THE WINE - whilst deciding what to eat from the extensive and somewhat confusing menu's I asked for a small glass of chardonnay. The waitress went to get my drink but returned about 5 mins later to inform me that they did not sell chardonnay by the glass - the menu said they did. I was given an alternative of Pinot Grigio which was fine. She returned with a large glass. I explained I wanted a small glass to which she stated we only do this in the large glass - the menu stated otherwise. I let this pass as I was thirsty anyway. THE STARTER - I had Calamari. I am more than sure they sourced this food from Farm Foods or Iceland as it was cheap, overcooked and the "salad garnish" was cabbage - yes cabbage - no sign of lettuce, tomato or anything you would you would generally associate with salad unless it was served with a kebab. It was like chewing on a durex.THE MAIN - Carbonnara hhmmmmm! On arrival I tried to establish what it was and if it contained any pasta or meat. It did........ after digging through the lump of sauce that was covering the rest of the dish. I could have wallpapered my staircase with the sauce. Whilst trying to excavate the nicer parts of my dish from the sauce two senior ladies entered the restaurant, who like myself was having a pre theatre meal. They ordered two halfs of shandy and a fish supper between them. Whilst at the bar two staff members, one of them the female who was serving me - slouched over the bar counter calling the two ladies of in Itallian over the sharing of their food.At one point I wanted to tell the ladies what was being said but I refrained as it would have spolied their night out.I tried to order another glass of wine - the girl served me black pepper as she was clearly more concerned with mocking the ladies. If it had of been my gran they were calling I would have ht the roof. I tried again to order a glass of wine which clearly annoyed the waitress. She slammed the wine on my table and muttered a reference often used in hospitals when getting an injection (small p***k) in Itallian to which I responded back to her in Itallian............she could not have been any nicer after that.I cut my losses with regards to dessert - the waitress would have thrown it at meIn general, avoid this hole full stop. Poor, slow service, overpriced cheap processed food passed off as homemade, and ignorant staff who enjoy calling customers in their native tongue. If the Duchess Theatre has any sense they will aquire this restaurant and turn it into a successful, friendly business.

Went for a pre theatre meal, Friday the 27th April. We ordered a bottle of red wine which was reasonably priced and ok, I would say a good house wine though but not at house wine price. We ordered a basket of bread, our expectation was that would be some nice olive or other speciality bread with maybe olive oil to dip. It was 3 warmed rolls, the sort that you can buy from ASDA, part baked and heated through on site. That was the best part of the meal. We ordered a pasta dish, it consisted of overcooked dried pasta not fresh pasta though it was so overcooked it didnt matter if it had started dry or fresh. A tomato sauce which was no more than a tin of diced tomatoes heat up and a few chunks of diced chicken, again the sort of cooked chicken that you can buy at Asda. Neither of us could eat the meal, the tomato sauce was too bitter. I think that this restaurent is dependent on its location beside severl theatres, once you eat there you definately wont want to go back. The cost was on a par with a decent Italian Restaurent.

Ordered grilled salmon which was hard, dry and much of it inedible, the salad with it was tired and was smothered it a factory made dressing and the green beans were tired, not cooked from fresh. It was certainly not fresh fish, I suspect it had been frozen five minutes earlier, maybe cooked too long to defrost it, who knows? This is so close to the theatres and being a Londoner, I was sad that some unsuspecting visitors to London might consider it to be typical cooking.

We visited this restaurant before going to see Lion King at the nearby Lyceum. The staff were friendly and welcoming. We had tasty soup and pizza which warmed us up on a very cold evening. The minestrone was full of many vegetables. It was all part of the deal and was reasonably priced and value for monsy

New years eve only place to get 7 people in two courses 10-13 pound food was ok pizzas good staff very good if you want a cheap meal in London pre theatre this is a ok .we read the previous reviews so thought we would redress the balance happy new year

We went for dinner on Sat 26th November. Location is very convenient for pre-theatre dinner if you are going to the few theatres nearby (we went to see 'Crazy for you'). There were two waitresses outside the restaurant trying to attract customers. They showed us the menu and they claimed that a two course dinner will cost £10.95 per person. We decided to go in. We were placed at a small table upstairs, which is a tiny room. There was no intimacy whatsoever, with other tables only a few inches from us.Food was served very quickly and it wasn't the best. Very small portions and you could see that it had been cooked long before we arrived and then re-heated. I was brought my plate several minutes before my partner's. The waiters tried to take our plates away before we were finished a couple of times. They were very anxious to get us out of there!In the end they tried to charge us more than the promised £10.95 and on top of all they charged us £8 for a glass of house wine! What a disgrace. We will never be back.