Relais De Venise City Of London Branch

Extremely, EXTREMELY busy on a Monday night, I guess because their Marylebone branch was closed for refurbishment. We’ve been trying to come to this restaurant for years now but can never go due to the massive queues, so we thought we’d try on a Monday and at a branch in the middle of nowhere, surely no one would go…. But how wrong we were. Super packed and massive queues (although as we were 2 it moved quickly for us). The staff, as another reviewer perfectly put it, are very impersonal and you can’t even ask them for something without them huffing and puffing and I get it it’s a fast paced restaurant and they were busy so they didn’t have time to waste, but you can be nice to your customers..? They’re quite patronising to be honest. They even charge service charge ontop of that, for poor service… I enjoyed the food but it was very very average, fries were overdone and my ‘walnut’ salad was just ‘wal’, there was like half a walnut cut into 4 tiny pieces in there, with just lettuce leaves…. I reckon I could make a better steak at home too as it was so thin. I asked for another salad and they said no… as if they’re handing me some £200 salad. Doesn’t even cost them 20p to make this ‘salad’. I couldn’t hear myself think due to how close we were sat next to a table who were basically shouting at each other the whole time… their conversation had no ending either, so the whole experience was a shambles for me. Would I go back again? I don’t think so.

Fantastic as always. Came over to City from Marylebone as that one was shut for a refurb, but well worth the trip

DEFINITELY WORTH THE WAIT. Delicious steak, crispy chips, and salad with a flavorful mustard dressing. The meringue dessert was a bit difficult to eat, as it was chewy and got stuck in our teeth. The service from the ladies was warm and welcoming!

This location is always full and I feel like the waitresses hurry your meal as much as possible, even putting food on your plate without asking which made me eat it cold. The only nice thing about this location is that you wait in line inside but I still prefer to go to Marleybone and have nice waitresses.

We try the menu that they have, first a classic salad with nuts and a mustard vinaigrette and then the meat of good quality and good cooking point the salsa type paris very good accompanied by homemade fries, the best thing they do is a second pass repeating dish so that the meat does not cool while eating quiet, average price 30/35 pounds per person.