According to Gordon Ramsay’s website, this huge Maida Vale boozer offers an ‘enchanting journey’ and ‘sophisticated’ British cooking – reporters, on the other hand, rate it like “a tired Torquay hotel”, where the food is “bland and incredibly expensive”, and the service simply “shocking”.
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We weren’t especially impressed by Gordon Ramsay’s first gastropub (the Narrow) and, like most reviewers, saw little to praise at his subsequent budget production, the relaunched Foxtrot Oscar ...
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Press Reviews (3)
Jay Rayner (1st April 2008)
“A gastropub with Gordon Ramsay's sure touch and none of his ego?”, tantalizes the headline. That is, indeed, just the experience the critic had at this Maida Vale gastropub, where only the steak and kidney pie is found in any way wanting.
Guy Dimond (6th March 2008)
3/6 stars
The sheer difficulty of getting a table has delayed TO’s review on the “refined” but “deadly dull” dining room of Ramsay’s new Maida Vale pub. Having finally got in, for lunch, TO’s head man finds “sweet but quite ditsy” service, and food that’s “pretty average”.
David Sexton (27th February 2008)
2/5 stars
Oh dear, the critics really do seem to have fallen out of love with the Sweary One. His latest mass-market outlet, a palatial Maida Vale boozer, strikes Ms M’s (regular nowadays) stand-in as a “swizz”: “you're dining with Gordon Ramsay in much the same sense that you're dining with Paul Newman when you open one of his pasta sauces”.
Jay Rayner (1st April 2008)
Guy Dimond (6th March 2008)
David Sexton (27th February 2008)
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