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    Big Easy

    3.5 (128 reviews)
    Open 12:00 pm - 10:30 PM

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    Good for kids
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    Christine P.

    Stopped by on a Saturday evening, and wait time was around 1 hour. If you want to put your name on the reading list, you need a London number and luckily we had one (we were tourists). The service was really slow. It took us a relatively long time for the waitress to come to our table, but she was nice given that the place was packed. It also took about an hour for the food to come to the table. The pulled pork and ribs were ok, but I didn't like the chicken. The seafood however was wonderful.

    Shack chic
    Paul R.

    Just round the corner from Covent Garden this is a great place for a meal with friends. The BBQ and Lobster is served large. In bin lids if you get a massive platter. The main reason to go is the Limitless BBQ (unlimited) Brunch with Unlimited wine, mojito or Prosecco. For £29.50 each in this part of London that's great value. You can stay for 2 hours so that's a lot of Prosecco. And we didn't have to ask for more drinks as we were topped up when we got most the way through a glass. The other opion is one 1lb Lobster with chips and unlimited drinks. Whole not unlimited lobster is still a great deal. You even get a plastic bib to stop you dribbling on yourself as clearly BBQ is messy!?!

    Shrimp boil with zero flavor. Never again.
    Mariela D.

    Hahaha! Let me just start by saying that unless you have eaten IN the city of New Orleans, you can't possibly know what Nawlins-style creole food is supposed to taste like. This was one of those situations where I was so amazed at how tasteless my shrimp boil was, that I kept looking around to see if others were having the same reaction. I can only explain it by saying that English food doesn't carry the same spice and flavor of other cuisines, so they may be trying to appropriate an inherently spicy cuisine to a blander palette. My problem is when a restaurant appropriates a distinct type of cuisine, one that is meant to be swimming in spices, and puts absolutely ZERO flavor in it. None. I had a shrimp boil and I swear there was not even so much as a speck of garlic, butter, cayenne pepper...nothing. Just a bit of herb. Worst of all, my shrimp boil had FOUR shrimp and the rest was potatoes and a bit of corn. I know restaurants may try to save money by mixing in more of the cheaper ingredient, but this place didn't even try to hide the fact. That's hardly a shrimp boil. It's barely a shrimp cocktail. Have these chefs ever been to New Orleans or eaten proper creole food? If they have, then they are purposely making it bland for what they think the local palette would like. If they haven't, then they have no business attaching New Orleans to the food served here because it carries no flavor. The only reason I'm giving it 2 stars instead of 1 is because the bartender is amazing. He is a proper cocktail bartender, knows his stuff and is really passionate about it. I would come here for the bar alone.

    Lobster Mac'n'Cheese
    Caroline L.

    If you like lobster, don't go any further. This is the best place to eat some without selling your kidney. The Big Easy is everything you can expect from a crab shack and the atmosphere is more layed back than his fancy cousin Burger and Lobster. For £20 you have a whole lobster, fries, salad and a beer or slushie (minus the rasberry blue syrup but with alcohol instead). Desserts are huge - I could never finish one so I would recommend to share. They also do ribs and steak but I didn't try them (yet. Lobster call is always stronger). Plastic bib provided. Don't hope to get a table without a booking though. The place is huge but it's impossible to just walk in and ask for a table in the evening (you might get lucky at lunch time).

    Rachel G.

    The food is amazing!! We shared pop corn shrimp to start which were so delicious they were gone in an instant! Then we had the pit smoked ribs and taste o Rama (chicken ribs and pulled pork). The meat was all amazingly cooked with a gorgeous flavour. The BBQ beans were delicious and the coleslaw was a nice addition. The servers were all amazing. And the decor was appealing and set the atmosphere off perfectly. The only criticism is the price of the drinks

    Words don't do this justice
    Nigel M.

    Had a great night here, but enjoyed the food too much to write the review. Great atmosphere. Started off with some cocktails at the bar with my partner. We were early so caught happy hour. Cocktails at 4 pound a hit! After seating we ordered the seafood. The brains a bit fuzzy now, but starters were a good plate of cold crab claws. Intense! Not to be outdone, I ordered the whole crab cooked in butter. Scrumptious! Two hours of solid eating, great food, great staff and service. Would I go back? In a heartbeat.

    Jennifer F.

    Once in awhile, it's great to treat yourself to a big classic surf and turf meal. My friends and I came here for a pre-Christmas meal thanks for a gift certificate from his mum. In all honesty, this place is a bit touristy, too pricy, and only for special occasions. The food was decent but nothing truly memorable. Lobsters, Ribs, Steak is tricky to get wrong if you know what you're doing. What I really enjoy is the selection of Whiskey they have. The servers were friendly and very patient with us. Love the western decor and music. A little note is that you may want to reserve a table to ensure that you get a seat. They're normally packed!

    Lobster Roll and chips
    Tracey S.

    I came here during lunch hours and they had a lunch deal going on. The lobster was lacking abit and I believe it was less filling. But all in all, the food was good and the restaurant ambience was fab.

    Turkey for thanksgiving special. So good! Really juicy and well cooked
    Christie K.

    I've been to the Big Easy in Covent Garden about twice now. First for the pre-theatre special and most recently for the Thanksgiving dinner. For the pre-theatre menu, you need to put your order in before 6 and you'll get 2 course for 10 pounds. I ordered the mac and cheese with the basket of deep fried shrimp. Portions are huge! Really good value and would even consider coming here for lunch. Food was okay - but for a tenner can't expect any more. For the Thanksgiving dinner, I've been disappointed a number of times at restaurants in London. On thanksgiving, they only offer 1 menu which gives you the option of a few different starters or a veggie main (instead of turkey). I had the spinach salad to start - pretty much like everything else at this restaurant it was a huge portion and good. My bf and I of course had the turkey and it was delicious! Wasn't dry at all like most places and it came with an array of sides. The pumpkin pie was amazing as well. I will definitely need to go back again next year for Thanksgiving. (Big Easy - can you do the turkey all year round??)

    Mondays Unlimited BBQ - Ribs, Chicken, Hush Puppies
    Jing Shyang Y.

    Why is it called the big easy? I think it's because it's a big place. And it's easy to like. After an epic Monday of watching Guardians of the Galaxy at the BFI IMAX Waterloo, Big Easy was sent in to keep things on a high and it did. Mondays is unlimited ribs, chicken, chopped pork and hush puppies, a king of cornball. A Ma-hoo-sive platter is initialy delivered to your table, along with your choice of some tasty Big Easy ales or a cocktail. After that you just munch. If you finish your platter or get close to it, you just ordered more of what you want. It's that simple. You can only eat so much though and Big Easy are clever in this regard, I didn't get past the giant platter that was shared between 4 persons. But it was still good value for money. Service is great. Each person responsible for their own zone, and whilst generally service is good, if your attendee is busy no-one else can really help you. Toilets. Are. Far. It's like a maze where you go through 6- doors, up and down stairs to get here. It's quite an experience. In all, superb food, great value for money, pleasant atmosphere and what a range of food. I probably will try the lobster next time I'm here as it looked quite good.

    Lobster Bake
    Linda T.

    Big Easy is a place for having a range of seafood as they serves lobster, crab, clams, mussels and prawn. All at a resonable price! We ordered the lobster bake which consisted of two jumbo prawns, half lobster, mussels, crab claws and some baby potatoes. You get to choose to be serve in spicy sauce or garlic sauce. For me it is definitely garlic sauce. However I would had like to been offered a bib as all other table around me was offered one. Then I might had less likely to get lobster staining my top. Also it would had been nice to have the seafood appliance to go through my lobsters and crabs shells. But I had to ask for it, which took ages to get a staff attention to bring me a pair. As well as seafood there are range of meat dishes included the sharing platter (Bar.N.Q Blow Out). We ordered the meat sharing platter but the meat was dry. I feel meat should be cooked but still retain it moist. The corn bread was odd as it tasted of sweet corn but had the texture of a cake. I would had rather got a proper corn on the cob. The service on the night that we took a friend from abroad to try was just slow. We didnt get much service and spent most of our time trying to get attention from a staff. Even when we had been asked if we finished our meal and we said yes, the staff serving us cleaned up less then half of our table and never returned. We had to tell them twice we have finished and would like to see the dessert menu. Overall the food is good for the seafood. But not convinced about the meat. In terms of service I feel it needs to improve if it intends to turn around their table in time. Also I preferred if the lighting was slightly brighter. Our light seem to have dim around half seven. I felt like sleeping! Zzzzzzzz!

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    Great ambiance, unfortunately the food is not that great. We had burger, steak and BBQ chicken. Steak is served pretty cold.

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    A brilliant place to visit if you are hungry. Decent prices for massive portions of awesome bbq. Friendly staff and great service.

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    The Fat Bear

    4.5(126 reviews)
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    WOW, this place is delicious!…read more Our family stopped in London for the last part of our cruise. After touring St. Paul's Cathedral, we were pretty hungry. We found The Fat Bear via Yelp!, and decided to give it a try. There were so many things on the menu that looked really good, but I had been craving chicken and waffles. The waffles were crisp on the outside, and fluffy on the inside -- the chicken, cooked perfectly, too. The syrup they serve it with is incredible. I definitely recommend checking this place out if you are in London! Carson C. Visalia, California

    I felt a bit like a genius because I was choosing a place for several friends to meet up and we all…read morewanted different things. I wanted something with at least one good veggie option, they wanted something with meat, and it had to be somewhere in-between Camden and Canary Wharf, not too pricey, and ideally close to the city because otherwise our Italian friend probably wouldn't make it. And lo and behold.... THE FAT BEAR!!! It was all we wanted and more! This place is sort of tucked away and up some stairs above a pub. It's really just a room and a half, which makes it super cozy and they have a pretty awesome looking bar. It's got warm lighting which makes the atmosphere really nice. Their cocktails were delightful and the service was excellent. I will make a very strange observation that someone working there had a very drunk friend who just sort of made herself at home. Then more joined and it turned into me watching this table of really really drunk people trying to order food. Two of them ended up just falling asleep. It was super strange. Anyway, me being distracted aside, I really loved the cocktail I ordered- Sloe Boat To China, and everyone else seemed happy with theirs. I was dying to try the pimiento cheese starter and the fried pickles. The cheese was particularly sharp and delicious. The pickles were good, but quite skinny (I mean come on, you're in an American restaurant I was expecting some serious pickles). The vegan gumbo was super spicy and delicious. I was impressed and enjoyed it. My husband dropped the ball and ordered the regular jambalaya (with sausage) rather than the seafood one which broke my heart a little bit, because I really wanted to try it. You know, I guess that means we'll just have to come back. Oh also another bonus, this place has brisket which is really hard to find. I can't say how it tastes but my friend said he defo approves (am I becoming more British with these words, or just more annoying?) Anyway, to finish it off I had the oreo cheesecake which the bomb. I love oreos. And it tasted like oreo. So all was right with the world. A wonderful place to come if you have people who want to try American food, or if you have out of town Americans who are too scared to try other food, or if you have hungry friends that want to try cajun food, or if you just want to try some really yummy food.

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    The Alchemist

    4.3(100 reviews)
    0.2 miCovent Garden, Strand
    ££

    food: dint grab food only drinks but the were yum and barely tasted like alcohol. also they were…read moreobviously presented super uniquely service: the staff was nice but kinda slow getting to us at a table and there was a lot of chaos like a bartender dropping glasses the whole time ambiance: really cool lighting and interior, gets very busy though

    Between a 3 and 4, but going with four because the food was above average pub grub and the drinks…read morewere good even if they were better looking than tasting. Came here for pre-theater anniversary dinner with my wife. The ambiance was somewhere between that of a trendy club and nice bar. There was a mad scientist vibe with the lights being industrial vibe and some metal decor. The music was thumpy and loud enough to remind you it was there. It made me feel a bit out-of-place as somebody well past my 20s, but also a bit cool or being there. You really come here for the drinks. We got the pipe dream, smokey old fashioned, honeypot picante, and one other I can't remember the name of, but which came in a flower pot. The pipe dream and smokey old fashioned were likely the best. Overall the drinks were more visually appealing than traditionally good and the visually appealing ones tended to have ingredients that weren't as top shelf and/or they were just too sweet. Not bad, but disappointing for what we'd hope. The food was the opposite. I had low expectations and the food wasn't amazing, but was better than average. We got the bao buns, crispy duck pancakes, panko halloumi, katsu curry, and hot honey pork tacos. They arranged for it all to come out in time for us to make our theater show, which was nice. The bao buns and pork tacos were probably the best. Neither blew me away, but both were solid. The katsu curry and halloumi were standard of what you might expect. The crispy duck pancakes was maybe as advertised, but it would have been nice to have some moistness or substance to the dug vs. it basically being crunchy salty bits of something. Overall, this wasn't a bad meal, but it wasn't quite what I was hoping for either. We may be back, but we'll probably try other things first.

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    Smith and Wollensky

    4.3(45 reviews)
    0.1 miStrand
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    This is a beautiful restaurant, very classy with elegant lighting and a very old school vibe…read more Waiters in white coats bustling food deliverers, etc. The service and attention to detail were impeccable. My partner and I visited on New Years Eve. I'm not sure if this is always the case, but the music playing was primarily American rock - like The Eagles, Neil Young, etc. It's fine, but not very in line with the classic, upscale feel. The bartending staff was top notch. I had a martini and my partner had a house Manhattan, both were perfect. We shared the iceberg wedge to start, a personal favorite, and this one was spot on. Great bleu cheese dressing, still warm lardons, and crispy, fresh iceberg lettuce. For mains, I ordered the aged Irish ribeye and chose to have it "gorgonzola encrusted". This was the first misstep. First of all, the grass fed beef stands on its own, I would never choose to add a sauce, but this was encrusted, right? Not so much. Here's the definition of encrusted from the Oxford dictionary: "Covered or decorated with a HARD surface layer". What I received was a steak smothered in (a very lovely) gorgonzola SAUCE with some bacon and spring onions. Had I known it was a sauce, I would have skipped it, or at the very least had it served on the side. Slightly disappointing, but the steak was perfectly medium rare and delicious. My partner ordered the hake. It was served with a prawn and a very tasty tarragon pesto. She said the pesto was the star. The fish was delicate and also well prepared. We shared sauteed spinach and roasted mushrooms, both delicious. For dessert we shared the banana and toffee mousse. This was the second misstep. This was a tasty dessert, but it was definitely not mousse. It was a very small sliver of banana bread (?). It had strong banana flavor and was served with rum raisin ice cream which was nice. It was also thankfully a very small portion as we were stuffed. Overall, a very decadent and elegant meal to ring in the new year!

    If you're looking for a high end steakhouse look no further. I first came here 7 years ago on a…read moretrip to London and have dined here several times since. Service was quick and personal, the atmosphere was great and we had some amazing food again. My filet was spectacular and thats comparing to many top steakhouses in the US and Australia. My only negative comment is the cost. Compared to similar steakhouses overseas its more expensive. Despite that I'll be back next time I'm in London.

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    Sweet Chick

    4.7(3 reviews)
    0.8 miFitzrovia
    ££

    We were very excited to see a London branch of Sweet Chick, and went in with the best of…read moreintentions. It's a mixed experience, and different to the US, but the bottom line is the food is still to die for. Sweet Chick don't do reservations. Which is fine - the US locations are tiny, you wait which creates a buzzy atmosphere for others, etc. The London version copies this. But when we visited for an early dinner Saturday, the venue was half empty. Hoping to eat quickly, we were told to sit at the bar, for "at most a half hour". We did this. During this time, achingly hipster bartenders slowly made cocktails from cheat sheets. The place is new, I get it, but the staff at the front end are there to bring you in. The hostess continually seated larger parties ahead of us, and at times just hung out while tables were available. This is super annoying - it's clearly part of the process, and designed to get you to spend. There was no flexibility to it, and the experience wasn't welcoming so much as just awkward. BUT - once we were seated, it became a totally different experience. Lovely, attentive service for a start. Help with choosing menu items if you want it, fast delivery that doesn't rush you, and the food...Goddamn the food. Carbs on carbs on carbs. Gooey mac and cheese with a hint of spice and crunchy crumb coating...delicious melt in the mouth biscuits (savoury scones to us) with a salt and herb crust and about a tub of butter in each... and all that before the main course. Chicken and waffles is the staple, and more than filling. Two chicken pieces, deep fried but not greasy, with a waffle. It isn't fancy, and doesn't need to be. It's just delicious and well made. Prices are reasonable - mains are in the £13-£24 range. Cocktails are nicely varied, made with cheap liquor which is a shame, but still pretty tasty. And maybe if they can iron out the intro experience to make it feel less like every other London restaurant and more like the NY joint, it would be a five star experience. Until then, put up with weird intro, it's worth it for the food. Just leave your belt at home.

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