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byward street ec3 5bj 
02074889239 Modern British Mon-Fri £10-£20
open lunch only
lovely setting
amazing food
service need to be more professional
Review the vesty552 Mile End Road
Mile End
London
E3 4PL 020 8880 6634 French & Greek 7 days £10-£20
Modern British with French & Greek specialties.
Superb decor and surroundings. Service is faultless, food always good and prices very reasonable. As good as many a West End flagship eating place. Close by Mile End Tube Station and easy parking outside.
Philip the owner is Greek and takes personal interest in every customer. Very comfortable surroundings.
We have been several times and have gotten a table without a reservation but at peak times I would book ahead
Review Venus in the ParkTower 42
42, Old Broard Street
EC2N 1HQ 020 7877 7842 Seafood 24 Hours £30-£50
Seafood and champagne bar, up in the clouds on the 42nd floor of Tower 42 (formerly the NatWest Tower). No higher place to eat in London!
Review Vertigo42170 Great Portland Street
London W1 020 7631 3131 Modern British 7 days £30-£50
Foodstore, Restaurant and Bar towards the north end of Great Portland Street. Excellent selection of produce in the foodstore; bar is a little like "All Bar One" but more expensive; restaurant is quite good but service can be a bit confused at times.
Review Villandry18 High Street, Hornsey N8 0208 341 0999 Modern British 7 days £10-£20
Viva Viva is full of promise. It promises a cool place to hang out with friends. It promises a tempting contemporary Mediterranean menu with an equally tempting, seemingly well-chosen wine list. And it promises top quality live-entertainment, DJ's, late-night drinking and the standard Friday night boozy naughtiness so desperately missing from this area of north London. Yet unfortunately, depressingly, and despite trying so very hard to want to like it, this reviewer has to say that Viva Viva is full of false promise. Massively pregnant with it. A Kings Cross whore dressed as a Shoreditch floozy. Fur coat. No knickers.
It is so, so wrong on so many levels. Leaving aside, for now, the appalling service, the rank food and the clueless management, I would have to say that Viva Viva is - without question - the worst place I have ever eaten in London. I say this without reservation. And as my partner will happily tell you, I am not good at complaining in restaurants. I am guilty of that awful English reserve when it comes to expecting and demanding good food and service. In fact, I think this may be the only restaurant in London where I have ever returned a dish. With a few-muttered apologies and an eye to the floor, I might add. And this in itself took some prodding and some cajoling from my better half.
The food was just inedible - burnt Sea Bass with re-heated mash and tepid lentils. I wouldn't recommend it. Obviously. When a slightly more edible version of the same dish returned to me – still overcooked I must add, but just about edible – a friend of mine pretty much summed up the night in responding to my grimace saying, “oh, but I love Sardines.” I hardly had the heart to tell her it was supposed to be Sea Bass. And that this was their second attempt at this most easily-cooked of fish.
Adding to the fact that we had waited well over 1½ hour for this burnt joke-of-a-meal to arrive and in the meantime had been treated to:
(a) The venue filling up with smoke - apparently due to a faulty fan in the kitchen, although nobody was sure about this, it was just a chinese-whisper that went around the bar, the management seeming to think it best to pretend it wasn’t happening
(b) Recurrent smoke alarms going off
(c) The worst singer-songwriter in London
(d) The most painful ‘guest vocal' ever (a rendition of Unbreak My Heart which had people physically smarting)
And yes, we were starting to become restless. And to top off our night we were charged over £40 extra for drinks we'd already paid for. Suffice to say we were left unfulfilled. Oh, and the wine was tepid. And vile.
Avoid like the plague.
Review Viva Viva
the vesty 
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