An “inviting” setting has helped make this stylish and “buzzing” yearling a “great addition to Marylebone”; even those who find the brasserie fare “decent”, though, may admit that it’s also rather “unexciting” – brunch is arguably the forte.
STOP PRESS: (February 2012) - This restaurant has closed.
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Marina is well turned off by this “very odd fish” of a brasserie in Marylebone – “a curious-looking set-up” where she feels “like the coolest gal in the room” (apparantly unusual) given the proliferation of “helmet-headed ladies-who-lunch”. Perhaps because she and her friend are “not as minted-looking as our fellow diners” they are “comprehensively ignored”. The place is “clearly going for sleek and soigné” but ends up “as dull and lifeless as the ‘before’ in a L’Oréal ad”, and the food – though it does have a Belgian flavour – is “every bit as heavy and tiresome as the room”. “Yes, folks, this is little better than Café Rouge food but at River Café prices. And if that ain’t the definition of hubris, I don’t know what is.”
Marina O'Loughlin (25th November 2010)
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