HUNter 486, The Arch London

Press Reviews (3)

• Tracey MacLeod (22nd February 2010)
  Food 3/5 stars, Ambience 2/5 stars, Service 3/5 st
  
  Near Marble Arch, the critic visits a dining room located among the “designery opulence” of a townhouse hotel. The room itself, though, has the air of a “mini-canteen”, with certain features “as seen in Zizzi”. “Imagine a business lounge that has mated with a Shoreditch diner, and you'll get the effect; it doesn't know whether it's Horace or Doris.”
• David Sexton (28th January 2010)
  2/5 stars
  
  Always tell people something they don’t know. “For the first 24 years of its life, Marble Arch stood in front of Buckingham Palace”, the critic informs us. Why, thank you Mr Sexton. Anyway, he visits a new hotel near the current location of the aforesaid monument, and finds a restaurant that’s “part of a big open room with a ‘salon de champagne’ at one end and a glossy cocktail bar in the middle… where we rashly chose to eat”. The whole experience proved rather “uncomfortable”, not least as his party was asked if things were alright “a dozen times” – “that’s harassment, not hospitality”. The food, though, was “fine, but “at the moment, the place feels a little too fussy and effortful for that atmosphere to come off, for actual Londoners at any rate”.
• Guy Dimond (21st January 2010)
  3/5 stars
  
  The critic visits the dining room of a new boutique hotel near Marble Arch. He find’s it to be “great for a quiet drink and small bite, but it’s no destination restaurant”. “It is, however, near-perfect for a romantic assignation, and rooms currently start from around £210.”