2011 Review: “Lacking all the cheesy ’80s charm” of its old site, this “corporate” West End diner is dismissed by the few reporters who bother to comment on it as “an overpriced triumph of mediocrity”.
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“Dominated by giant plasma screens”, this newly relocated American diner, in Haymarket, is – according to the critic– “ a TV dinner from hell” with “American-obsequious” service and all the charm of a “psychedelic multi-storey car park”. More “entertainment centre”, than restaurant, the food – cooked on a “semi-industrial” scale and over-sugary – “is completely beside the point.”
Marina O'Loughlin (8th July 2009)
1/5 stars
The critic visits the famous American diner, recently relocated to the Haymarket. She finds herself in an “ugly”, “rammed” dining room, where she samples food of unfathomable “ghastliness” (and which “doesn't even have the decency to be cheap”).
Feargus O’Sullivan (19th June 2009)
The critic finds the new Haymarket location of this West End joint “a far less gaudily claustrophobic affair” than the original Trocadero site. “The new Planet Hollywood is no gastro palace nor especially cheap – but as tourist traps go, it goes down well enough.”
David Sexton (24th July 2009)
Marina O'Loughlin (8th July 2009)
Feargus O’Sullivan (19th June 2009)
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