Reviews in South London

Good food, great atmosphere.

I would strongly recommend that any residents or visitors to East Dulwich should give this place a very very wide berth unless they want to be abused. The service is worse than abominable. We were offered one table and we suggested we might sit at another. "No" we were told firmly and pointed to another. The menus were not handed to us but rested against the wall with extreme bad grace. After an inordinate delay the owner finally arrived to take our order. We placed relatively simple orders with the owner including basmati rice and mushroom pilau rice. When the rice was delivered we asked the waitress whether this was mushroom rice. She said it wasn't. I remonstrated with her that we had ordered mushroom pilau. Rather than just accept that a mistake had been made she grumpily left the table and returned with the order sheet and told us in no uncertain terms that we had ordered pilau rice. Eventually the owner arrived with correct rice. I explained how appalled I had been at the waitress's behaviour and that I had not experienced such bad service in any restaurant anywhere in the world. Rather than apologise he just told us we had not ordered mushroom pilau rice but just pilau. Unfortunately nobody at the restaurant appears to have been trained in basic customer service and the customer is always wrong here. When the owner presented the bill he was extremely personally offensive and we quickly paid and left. I indicated that I would never darken the door of this establishment ever again. After we left the owner pursued and further verbally abused us on Lordship Lane and described me as "arseholish". He also rather strangely suggested that we had never been invited to the restaurant in the first place - we had thought the restaurant was open to the public - clearly this is not the case in this peculiar corner of East Dulwich. If there is nowhere else to eat in East Dulwich you might want to risk it but beware of the owner and the staff. This so-called restaurant is trading on its previously good reputation and I strongly urge you to give it a miss. I would add that I am very disappointed to have to write this review having given this restaurant my custom for in excess of ten years.

Quality food at reasonable prices. I give it 5 Stars

superb nothing else to say

This restaurant? A massive NO! NO! NO! I came in with a friend to try it out and noticed we were the only people and so I asked ' Hello! Are you guys open?' The lady whom I believe is the owner, simply barked us back 'Why, does it say close at the door?' Woah, we were simply taken aback by her upfront-ness rude behavior. Then we gave her the benefit of the doubt and stayed and sat as she came towards us placing two sticky and dirty menus. With an accompanied massive sigh. As if to say she's doing us a favor. Then we felt it was really unpleasant and she is quite unfriendly. And so we changed our mind. We stood up as my friend said 'Sorry we changed our minds.' She then again barked us back 'You always change your mind!' By the way this is a woman whom we never met and the place we never been once before. And so I replied to her by saying 'Because you're very friendly.' And guess how she replied to me? Simply an agressive 'F*** Y**!' We were shocked and I came back from the opened door saying 'What did you just say?' Again, she simply replied and repeated 'F*** Y**!' I then replied to her 'Who are you to talk to me like that?' She replied by trying to give me the reason why she swore at me by saying: 'Because you always change your mind!' Which obviously is not a good reason at all for swearing at someone you don't know. Then realised I was talking to a mad person. Although, I was really shocked and upset by her rudness. We were laughing of shock and disbelief outside, whilst a family was reading their menu by the window. Surely, the kids heard her saying those profanity words to us. How delightful. Strange it's still running though. If only people would know. By the way, by saying 'barking', I really mean it, as if she was answering someone back in the middle of an argument. P.S. The dialogue here is the exact dialogue exchanged and delivered during the entire situation.

Very Disapointed with this restaurant. The Web site promised great things and delivered nothing. Service was poor and the food was cold. The Menu did not feature anything as described on the website The only redeeming feature was the signiture chocolate pudding which was cooked to order and turned up exactly how it was described.

I enjoyed my dinner out at Feng Sushi. The quality of fish was nice, and the sushi was of a good quality - although slightly unremarkable. The location in Fulham was very small but clean and orderly. The staff was busy, mostly with take-away orders, but polite. It had a feeling of being not traditionally japanese and the staff and chef were unfamiliar with basic sushi. For example they had scallop sushi, so I asked for a scallop handroll. This seemed rather perplexing to them, and I worried when the sushi chef came out to ask if I would like teriyaki sauce on it. I explained how it was usually made (light japanese mayo, roe, and a little spice) you can also have fresh cucumber. The chef made them very well and I appreciated his time and effort. Higher quality than Yo Sushi, less expensive than Nobu, and overall very good, yet I am not rushing to go back. Dinner for two: sushi, tempura, sake: around GBP 70

Just like to thank the Ivory Arch for doing a late night delivery to a group of poor Bankers. The food delicious, we promise to give the deliveryman a bigger tip next time.

A small cosy take-away restaurant, the chefs are on view, looks very exotic, the food is very tasty.

I went to Cafe Rouge with my friend on 15/9/08. We got the tube to London Bridge and it was only a 2 minute walk from there in a lovely covered area of the Hays Galleria. The staff were very attentive and the food was delicious. We used the Tesco Clubcard Deal Vouchers to pay for our meal and didn't have a problem. After our meal we had a lovely stroll along the Queens Walk which runs next to the Thames. You have a lovely view of Tower Bridge. If we were in the area we would definitely visit this Cafe Rouge again.

I found this restaurant very best for eat in and take away with very reasonable prices .

I eat here at least 4 times a week....Lunch or dinner. Always good hot food, cooked to order the cook will always accept orders for food not on dishes not on the menu, always willing to please. Service good and cheerful Cost....excellent from 3.50 to 11.00... drinks acceptable prices.

very very good nice atmosphere decent pricing yummy food

poor service and quality

very good

I have eaten here a couple of times because I had a friend who used to work there. The ambience is very good with all the flowers and the little stream running through one side of the dining area.The bar which is shaped like the King of Thailands barge is a feature not to be missed. My only problem is that I feel you are paying for all this and not so much the food which I feel is somewhat overrated. By keeping the prices high they are obviously trying to keep their clientele exclusive but why someone would want to pay their prices for food that could be purchased at a less exclusive venue and be of a similar standard beats me.

I was at the BFI bar last Saturday for a drink with a friend. I wanted to know how much a single shot of JD is and was told by the barman that it's £2.15. I asked how much a double would be (hoping for a good deal). I was quite shocked to be told by the barman that it's £4.75!!!!When I then asked the barman to explain this extraordinary pricing policy, he was quite unable to do so. He suggested that I 'order' two singles and then he would pour them into the same glass..... I am fairly certain that this pricing policy is applied to all drinks, not just the one I ordered. Needless to say my friends and I were not impressed with this and left the bar without much of an intention of returning.

the best chinese restaurant in tower bridge