Balthazar London

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   mark

   VIP

   London

   66 reviews

   4.0

   66 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   A constantly consistent restaurant always solid but not outstanding. pretty well priced wine list . I got a black current souffle rather than the raspberry one which was promised which was disappointing. All in all pretty good
   

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   Sophie

   VIP

   Oxford

   1 review

   3.0

   1 review

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 2

   Fine if you are in Covent Garden and need some over priced food
   

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   Konrad

   VIP

   London

   9 reviews

   4.0

   9 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 5

   We arrived on time but our table was not ready so went to the bar to have a drink. The restaurant was very busy and there was only one barman on duty serving all the waiters orders and serving the bar customers. We waited patiently about 15 mins to get served. The bar was so busy two barmen would not have been enough. We were finally taken to our table situated in a corner with a column, I was told by 3 waiters to move my chair as I was obstructing the passage. I asked a manager to move us , I had booked 2 weeks previously and this was a birthday treat for my friend Trudi. The manager did move us to a lovely table and we enjoyed a lovely tasty lunch . I really feel you should not sit people on that corner seat especially 3 people .
   

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   Omran

   VIP

   London

   67 reviews

   5.0

   67 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 3

   One of the best lunch set menus in town, delicious creamy and smooth cauliflower soup followed by a perfectly grilled sea-bream, we started with their signature seafood platter with generous amount of oysters, prawns, mussels and crab, dessert was once again the best cream brûlée in London. Wine list was to the point, warm welcome by the host and excellent service as ever.
   

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   Lynne

   London

   4 reviews

   4.0

   4 reviews

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   The fixed price lunch was excellent value for money and was very enjoyable. The service was efficient considering how busy the restaurant was. As a result of the popularity it was quite noisy but we would certainly go again.
   

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   zhaolin

   London

   1 review

   1.0

   1 review

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 5

   We sat in our seats for more than 30 minutes and there was still no waiter to take care of us, for which we called numerous times but were ignored, and even more egregious was that one of the waitresses was called by us twice, but each time asked us to wait and take care of other tables first, hopefully not racist, but we got no response. So I don't recommend this restaurant very much. Suffocating service attitude.
   

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   Juan

   London

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 5 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   It rarely fails to deliver, Balthazar is a place with a great vibe, service was great and the fixed menu is good value with great choices.
   

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   Lauren

   Greater Boston

   16 reviews

   4.0

   16 reviews

   Dined 5 days ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   The food and wine were excellent. The only negatives are acoustics and noise level - it was so loud in the restaurant at lunch that it was difficult to carry on a conversation at our table.
   

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   Nuala

   VIP

   London

   9 reviews

   5.0

   9 reviews

   Dined 6 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Rita was fantastic give her a pay rise immediately!
   

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    Nicola

    VIP

    London

    12 reviews

    3.0

    12 reviews

    Dined 6 days ago

    1. Overall 3
    2. Food 3
    3. Service 2
    4. Ambience 4

    Wait staff don't write down the orders. No idea who this impresses (when they get it right) but it's just downright irritating when they get it wrong as they did in this case, (order was for 2 people and not complicated) They forgot one of our drinks and brought the wrong dish for lunch. So we ended up having to ask for one of our drinks 3 times and eating at different times which spoilt the lunch a bit. Just write down the order like they do in pretty much every restaurant everywhere, get the order correct and everyone's happy.
    

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