RestaurantsLondonBayswaterW2

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Summary

£71
  £££
4
Very Good
3
Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

A “delightful ever-changing menu of truly delicious and inventive vegan/vegetarian dishes” tickles the taste buds at Camilla Fayed’s Bayswater venue, which is supplied by her Demeter-certified biodynamic farm in Kent.

Summary

£65
  £££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“I don’t normally like vegan food but this was just fine” – Camilla Fayed’s ‘sun to soil’ venture in Bayswater was again solidly well reviewed this year.

Summary

£63
  £££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Vegan at its best”, agree fans of this contemporary Californian-style operation from Camilla Fayed (daughter of the former Harrods owner, Mohamed Al-Fayed). The cooking is “interesting and highly competent”, and while “vegan food can often be bland, that’s not the case here” – so “if you want your first vegan experience, it’s the place to come”.

Summary

£63
  £££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Vegan at its best”, agree fans of this contemporary Californian-style operation from Camilla Fayed (daughter of the former Harrods owner, Mohamed Al-Fayed). The cooking is “interesting and highly competent”, and while “vegan food can often be bland, that’s not the case here” – so “if you want your first vegan experience, it’s the place to come”.

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Farmacy Restaurant Diner Reviews

Reviews of Farmacy Restaurant in W2, London by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of Farmacy restaurant.
Robert Wade W
You can certainly tell that Camilla Fayed h...
Reviewed 8 months, 24 days ago

"You can certainly tell that Camilla Fayed has sunk millions into this this place. It's really rather pretty and the enormous central bar is certainly impressive. The shame is that the food is just woeful. The better part of £20 for a veggie burger and it's the sort of pappy mush that is indistinguishable from the mayonnaise (veganaisse?) soaked bun. I guess it probably tastes ok but when the texture is so horrid we tend not to taste much. When every pub and cafe can now manage triple cooked chips, the solid, greasy offering here seem unforgivable in a place that should be celebrating the potential of humble vegetables. An attempt at Thai curry wasn't quite so poor but was under-seasoned in every way, no acidity, no heat, no saltiness or sweetness. And an oddly small portion. Farmacy was well ahead of the vegan curve. What a shame that "

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Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Veggies Pudding
£9.00 £14.00 £6.00 £11.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £27.00
Filter Coffee £5.00
Extras  
Bread £5.00
Service 12.50%
74 Westbourne Grove, London, W2 5SH
Opening hours
Monday12 pm‑4 pm, 5 pm‑9 pm
Tuesday12 pm‑4 pm, 5 pm‑9 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑4 pm, 5 pm‑9 pm
Thursday12 pm‑4 pm, 5 pm‑9 pm
Friday12 pm‑5 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Saturday12 pm‑5 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Sunday12 pm‑8 pm

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