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Absolutely terrible. We were delighted to be able to book a table at this well known restaurant. My husband had a starter of ham which looked like something straight from supermarket piled on a plate nothing else looked like something you would give the cat or dog. I had the osso buccorisotto and I totally agree with previous review it was huge and like slop. My husband and son had prawn and lobster pasta which the waiter served my son had only pasta my husband a little more of the prawn and lobster the remainder of pasta placed on table. No option of Parmesan. I ordered coffee which came before my desert. The meringue cake was most disappointing. My husband had the apple pie which was the best of the meal. Wine was reasonable. Service appalling virtually thrown onto the table. The bill was nearly £500 for three. Service charge £50. Just not good enough. How they get celebrities through the door is a mystery to me perhaps they have alternative chefs.

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The food is not great. The dishes are not properly served. Like they threw the food in the plate. They use glasses for water for a 120£ bottle of wine. Extremely expensive while food and service is quite mediocre

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The Osso Bucco Risotto, was a huge plateful of gelatinous, grey, tepid, tasteless slop, with a bright yellow flavourless, tepid, risotto on hte side. The huge portions of room temperature, barely cooked pasta dishes served to the three teenagers was too awful for words. All three agreed that their cooking was better. These dishes are £30.!!! I guess the price reflects the rent..not the food. It was busy enough, and the staff were all running around looking busy! You get a bread basket and then bread rolls....so much bread! Pudding was a huge slice of pie made out of whipped cream and barely cooked merangue. I am amazed this place has survived, it is awful! truely awful!

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I was very excited to try the famous Cipriani restaurant. My mother was a regular customer a few years ago and she spoke so very highly of it, remembering both the food and staff in such detail and had even met the owner who sounded very kind and held his establishment at a very high standard.

The food was average, absolutely overpriced and she was shocked to see the difference in service between now and then and I was extremely disappointed with the behaviour of the main waiter on our table. We were asked to wait 20' for our table, even though our friend had mobility issues and they were aware of that.

The atmosphere was quite loud so when the waiter was taking our order he had to lean in to hear what we were saying which is perfectly fine. When I was ordering, I was sure about the appetiser but thought it right to first ask a question about the risotto of the day and the other main I was interested in and one of the two happened to be the same question a different person of our table asked. He replied "the lady has already asked me the same question" and I simply replied "Oh, sorry, I couldn't listen to your conversation", even though I had no obligation to say so or do so. When he explained, I told him the dish I had decided on and then moved on to order my appetiser to which he asked "is this your main course?", I replied "No, I would like this as my appetiser please". To which he replied "You always start from top to bottom, NEVER from bottom up", meaning you never start from your main and then order your appetiser. This was said in such a dismissive and aggressive way that I was actually left in shock but he swiftly moved on to the next person and I thought it best to leave it at that.

My friend was looking at the wine list and asked if they have a specific whiskey, to which he replied "No, we don't have that. If you want to see the whiskies you need the whiskey menu, not the wine menu", after which he disappeared and never brought it - we had to ask a different waitress, who kindly informed us that they do actually have it and brought us the whiskey list herself.

When everyone's appetiser came, he brought me the wrong one. I politely told him that this was not the prawn dish I ordered, to which he replied "this is the one you showed me" in such a rude tone and raised voice. This is impossible, by the way, because the dish I showed him was 3 dishes down from the one he brought me on the menu.

The cherry on top was the fact that he did not remove the wrong appetiser from the bill and I had to ask for it to be removed.

This is absolutely unacceptable for such an expensive restaurant that has been around for this long. I truly will never understand what gives such people the right to behave in this way and how management allows this. This is the only reason why no one from our table will be visiting again and it really is a shame given its long history.

PS: We found out this morning that in the takeaway bag we asked for, they put leftovers from a different table. This establishment really is the epitome of disaster and a ghost of the past!

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