Maiden's Tower in Islington

We had some free time before the train departure and by pure luck we ended up in this pub. As it was a Wednesday special night we were kindly invited to the basement Amazing. Every man’s dream place. We can’t wait to be back in January.

Nice cocktails, drinks paired with food on menu. Great waitress service but shown to table by silent owner? Nice choices. Quite expensive. Busy, tables quite close together.

What a disappointing place, especially after all the positive reviews I've seen! I had a booking for dinner - I arrived 15 minutes early, and stood in the doorway by the sign that said to wait to be seated. There were three servers walking around near the door - granted, they were serving other tables, but they completely ignored me and refused to even acknowledge me standing there, even when they weren't serving others. After an awkwardly long time of being ignored, I had to chase down one of the servers to ask for my booked table. They seemed almost angry that I'd asked, which was really offputting and unwelcoming. Once I was seated, they shoved a pile of menus on the table and walked away without a word or smile. To be honest, I can excuse poor service if the food is good. But here, the food was completely average, which was very disappointing considering it was expensive. My tip: save your money and buy the food from Lidl's Alpine week. It's much better and more flavourful - and it'll cost less than the price of a slice of stale Sachertorte at Kipferl. Nice and cosy restaurant interior in a cute alleyway, but that's the main thing going for it. The aloof service and low quality food soured the evening, and it was very galling to have to pay 12.5% service charge for a subpar experience (you pay via QR code, so you can't really ask them to remove it).

Great Food, Fabulous cocktails and wonderful service. We didn't notice that the bill was slightly wrong due to the till updating but the waiter quickly realised and informed us and refunded us immediately - How wonderful that he was so honest and so apologetic with it !!!

Extremely busy due to the unexpected March sunshine but the food was still top notch. My chicken roast was incredible and the dish pictured was the best aubergine in years. They easily dealt with gluten free and dairy free. Could probably have used a few more staff to deal with the deluge of people but they were all pleasant under pressure