Daily Mail
Tom Parker Bowles was deeply unimpressed by the bland food served at the grand-looking main restaurant from Des Gunewardena’s D3 Collective, in Olympia’s newly restored Pillar Hall – despite the “utterly charming” service.
The first dud dish was a crab salad that was “plain dull, the crustacean obviously not picked fresh that morning, the mango unripe, the whole dish fridge-cold and woefully under-seasoned.” Herdwick lamb rump also tasted “curiously dull”, while a Sri Lankan chicken curry was merely “OK in a Qatar Business Class sort of way, but at £28, expensive and utterly forgettable.”
Perhaps Idalia is a work in progress but Tom, who lives just three minutes away, won’t be back to find out: “You’d have to pay me to return.”
Tom Parker Bowles - 2026-06-14
