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“Go as a group at your own perril!”

written by Marlonw on 24/01/2012

I took 12 people to Jamie Oliver's Fifteen for my birthday. We were running about 30 minutes late which staff accommodated very well and to be honest, the staff were pretty good although the seemed hugely overwhelmed by the number of people in the restaurant even though it wasn't that busy by my standards and I’ve eaten everywhere. This is about the best thing I can say about the restaurant.

The food was absolutely appalling. I could have, without a doubt in my mind, produced better food using a microwave. After being subjected to their group menu, which immediately tells you quality levels are going to be far lower than the a la carte menu, the selection was also laughable. So much so that the whole table apart from 2 people went for pork for main (I am skipping starter as it was just the mixed starters of olives and meats which all the restaurant has to do is put it on a plate and at least they didn't get that wrong). The pork, for the whole table was like tasteless rubber. The other two courses that my guests had was a risotto which tasted like it had been made with water from the dead sea it was so salty and pasta which was bland to say the least (Maybe they added the salt from the pasta to the risotto by accident?).

We didn't have dessert as it seemed pointless... wine kept flowing though so at least the waiters were on the ball trying to get us inebriated so we wouldn't realise how bad the food was.

Long and short of it is... if I were paying £15 per head i would have been disappointed but wouldn't have written a review. We paid £76 per head that night... a total of over £900 for food that was nothing short of poor. I feel thoroughly disappointed and hope, should you decide to go, have a better night than I did.