Amy @ My Dining Journey
+5
Recommended as one of the best places to eat at Covent Garden, the Great Queen Street is known for seasonal and hearty British cuisine where reservations is a must due to its perennial popularity. With a non-pretentious menu that relies heavily on fresh produce, it changes daily so you can expect something new every day.
Coming in to a full dining room with a 6:30PM reservation, it's popularity amongst the Londoners are evident. Taking a small table in the middle, we ordered the two dishes that was recommended by our friendly waitress. The roasted hake served with new season's borlotti beans with a hot anchovy dressing was scrumptious and I happily soaked up the sauce with the complimentary bread. My sister's baked lemon sole served with a cream prawn bisque was just as nice and we both cleared our plates with ease!
We were more than impressed with the food and service from Great Queen Street. The dishes allowed the ingredients to shine and it's a no-frills sorta menu where edible blooms, unnecessary foam and bite size mains are nowhere to be found. The knowledgable staff can recommend the perfect beverage pairing and despite being swamped with work, they were friendly, attentive and very efficient. The perfect way to end our trip in London!
9.5/10 for service on counter and 7.5/10 for food. It's very busy restaurant, so highly recommend to book a table. We didn't have any reservation and just walked in last night. There are only have counter seats. It turned out we get best service ever!! Super good and fast service from staff at the bar. Highly recommend!
Down side was the quality and portion of food. My dish:whole Plaice was way too big for one person and runny sauce. My husband dish :crab gratin was quite small for main. Taste of food was just OK. Kind of simple.
Next time I'll order more meat dish.
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Tasty modern British Cuisine. A casual restaurant in Covent Garden with great value for money modern British cuisine. I recommend you make a reservation since it can get pretty busy during lunch and or dinner times. Like the atmosphere of the place and the great value for money.
The rabbit pie is great! Its filling tastes like really good chicken soup. Not a bad deal at 30. 1 pie serves 2. Waiter was friendly & helpful.
A bookable Anchor and Hope. The foods great, properly cooked. Simple faire done well.
The only thing that I've had thats disappointed is the Rabbit Pie - Full of little bones. This is the same people that run the Anchor and Hope, so you know the food is good - and the the concept of service usually lacking, you really get the sense these people are resting on their laurels.
The wines were a little average, but I think I know why. There is an arragance about a place that only gives you a wineglass if you order over a certain price.
The smell is all important when tasting wine, and a good glass is half the battle, the tumbler you get with any bottle under £20 is cheeky in my book.
So either they don't know their wines or they're arrogant, maybe both, give it a go see what you think...
Excellent. It's all about the Pie! I've been back here since my last review and still think it's excellent. I find it hard to stray from the pie. Easily the best in London, if not the UK!
Excellent. Always love going here. They have the best pie ever. Every time I go I struggle to order anything else but the pie because it is so good! However on the occasions I have ventured beyond the pie , its always been great. I recommend Crab starter + Pie to share.
The main dish was tasty, cooked well, lying on top of the beans and tomato sauce. It was also a fun dish to eat – the finger bowl provided giving permission to pick up the bits to get the last remnants of the meat off the bones.
Great Queen Street has a great vibe, its casual, dark and kind of loud. I love when you can see the kitchen in a restaurant and even hear it a little, you get this with Great Queen Street, its dramatic and I just love that.
The meat soaked up the sweet-and-salty broth of plump and springy snails, bacon and melt-in-yer-mouth shallots very nicely. Simple combinations but brilliantly executed.
This logically named restaurant is one of my "Winter places" because the food is really hearty and the place is all gastro-pub cosy (although having said that they need to work on their heating as it was freezing in there today!). If you don't like the st
No nonsense, no frills, what you see on the tin. Like the name, stripped down to the bare essence of great produce and British cooking and I love it.
There is something about the Great Queen Street Restaurant that gives me this feeling that I should only eat there in the colder months. To me it doesn’t come across as a summer or spring eatery. It’s more suited to those darker winter cold months.
Finally, I can sleep again at night. No longer do I need to lie awake at grim hours, tossing and turning, racking my brains, for a worthy place to meet friends for a pub lunch in the realms of Soho. Soho is great for coffee, wine bars, restaurants and, ob
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This is the sister restaurant to one of my favourite tables in London - The Anchor and Hope. Everything is the same in terms of great bourgeois cooking and well chosen and resonably priced wines and beers. Last night which was pretty cold I had a very lig
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This is a hidden charm in the Bloomsbury area that very few people talk about, but the place is always packed. I'm sure amongst gastro pub lovers it has a high repeat customer base. They do a simple seasonal menu, the ingredients are always very fresh and distinctly British. The food is good and the place is charming, particularly when there are very few similar restaurants in the area...Go a few hundred yards down the road and you'll hit chain central in covent garden. They also have a sister pub in Waterloo, which is even better in my opinion - more lively atmosphere.
Another great find in Covent Garden. Don't be put off by the cue. Simply slide downstairs for some modern and interesting cocktails. The Scottish bar man knows his stuff. After you've warmed up, before you know it you'll be in the restaurant, sharing a shoulder of lamb blown away by the quality of the food. Lovely to see a tight small menu by the chefs. Go in a group and club together for the sharing plates! You will not regret it.
Good but not great. The menu is often very strong, but there's always something disappointing in the cooking. Today, the mushroom ragu was oily, and lacked the inky richness I was expecting. I'm sure they can do better. I'm not so sure why they don't.
As a tourist this place is a great!
Food representative of England which otherwise is quite hard to define!
Delicious food that's just a tad too salty although nothing a pint doesn't fix :)
Decent restaurant setting that's not too posh despite the name.
Prices also reflect this nicely
Doesn't seem too busy on a weeknight. Cheerful staff!
Chicken pot pie is a must!
Decent gastropub with jolly staff. Feels more European than British but this is a reflection of the variety on the menu inspired by dishes from the continent.
Being vegetarian, about 1 in 10 items were suitable which is why it loses a star; this would be a difficult place for a vegan to enjoy as there's usually cheese or cream as a key ingredient in the starters and mains.
This place is well suited if you're seeking animal-oriented dishes but more of a difficult sell for a vegetarian or beyond.
Lovely place. Was much quieter when I visited may 31st. Versus the other few times. The quality of food and presentation were lovely. We sat in the window, so could watch the world go by. An adult women at another table started eating a shop bought yoghurt at a table whilst she waited for her friend. Very strange but certainly a bit of a highlight to add to the food. I need to get out more
One of my favourite restaurants in London, great British food with amazing service. It is part from other two restaurants in London, the hope and anchor near Waterloo and the camberwell arms in camberwell. The best rabbit pie I have ever had, unfortunately they didn't have the last time we visited. Good place to take people visiting the UK for them to try something else beside fish and chips.
One of the best dishes I had during this UK biz trip. It definitely suits Japanese taste as well.
Potted shrimp, Beef Wellington, buttered greens, Tarte Tatin — these are dishes to soothe and reassure. Menus that offer them seem to say to the diner, "Try not to worry. Things will probably be all right." Few places have ever said that with more conviction than Great Queen Street.
Delicious food!! Lovely staff! Scallops were particularly amazing! And OMG the Apple Tart with Calvados ice cream!!
We love this place. It's a great restaurant to try something new as you know whatever it is will be done well. Service is always great, knowledgeable and friendly. You need to book
Lovely selection of food in a great part of London. The beef shin was tremendous
Fantastic lamb, well crafted selection of wines by the glass and friendly service. The espresso is great too!
Delicious food with extremely friendly and knowledgeable service. There were only a couple of vegetarian options but these were appealing and far from the normal bog standard choices - my pasta was light and summery and absolutely moreish. My friend raved about the oysters and the scallops (and everything else!) and even the simple bread and butter was unbelievably tasty. Staff were all aware we were heading to the theatre and while we didn't feel at all rushed they definitely kept an eye on the time for us. Highly recommended!
The whole family really enjoyed this restaurant.
The downstairs bar/lounge was a pleasant place to wait for the table upstairs. The Moscow Mules were very spicy with ginger.
The dinning room had a great buzz, with rustic/hip decor and romantic lighting.
The manager/wine steward was very helpful in assisting me with what to expect from different selections from their list.
The place was packed but service was extremely attentive, filling water and bread quickly.
The presentation of their suckling pig shoulder is a sight to behold. The taste was rich and delicious, with nicely textured cracklings and creamy butter beans on the tender long cooked shoulder.
Go family style with one of their entrees that is for more than one and the price is extremely reasonable for London.
For a British pub-feel restaurant in a non-foodie area of London, the food blew me away and was better than I expected. You can tell the chef puts a lot into his dishes and they were all fantastic. The lunch menu is well curated and offers a great sample of their beat dishes.
An amazing homemade chicken pie with a perfect suet crust (for two) was the highlight of our table's meal. Good food and more unusual dishes, such as fresh venison for four. The food was very good, but we found the strict adherence to the menu a bit uncomfortable. For example, meat would only be cooked as the chef recommended (which I'm sure is the best way, but made people not order what they'd have liked) and cream couldn't be served with a dessert. The atmosphere in the restaurant was great - there was a good buzz and it was quite loud. But the bar downstairs didn't look particularly special.
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We were visiting my son in London and he took us to Great Queen Street for our last night out. It is indeed British Food, rather like food that is dressed up and told to behave for guests.
How ever this magic works, , it is works very well.
I would describe the the decor as comfortable. It is friendly, not fancy. It is completely congruent with the total experience.
The wait staff seemed to be there when needed without hovering. The one time I needed something I looked around to see the sever keeping an eye out. I just smiled and nodded and she came right over.
There were five. We ordered two dinners for two and one had a piece of fish. One dinner for two included tender, delicious roast beef with ham hock and a very well prepared risotto. The second dinner for two, which i did not order, was a chicken pot pie. That and the fish offering received similar reviews all around. It was all very English, but with an updated flair that was quite pleasing. If you live in London it is a great place to take visitors. Or just take those in your own circle.
Fine work by all at Great Queen Street.
Fantastic, cozy restaurant with a unique and upscale menu that features excellent Sunday Roast options (including some plates you need to order in advance if desired). The restaurant is large enough, so bigger reservations are not too difficult even at the last minute. The people are friendly and the food is wonderful. I recommend ordering plates for the table and eating as a group - very fun and friendly experience!
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