Katana @ The International

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  Katana @ The International

  116 St. Martin's Lane London WC2N 4BF uk
  
  hunkychunky

  21st July 2008

  mrs elizabeth ashby

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  Katana is ideal for a pre theatre meal, as the Duke of York's theatre is round the corner. We reserved a table for two, the set menu at £14.95.
  Poor choice on the menu, so we asked to see the à la carte menu. The prices were outrageous so we stuck to the set menu.
  Thai Green and Red Curries were very bland, rice and noodles were an added cost. We will not return.
  
  
  

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  Katana @ The International

  116 St. Martin's Lane London WC2N 4BF uk
  
  mangoeater

  15th May 2008

  Boring Food, Great Location

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  I recently took a client for lunch. This is a well-decorated (modern clean lines) place in a lovely location. But if you love Thai food, this is not the place for you. This is where you can take friends who usually dont eat foreign food. I can't beleive there is actually a chef here, because the food was gloppy, overly sweet, and uninventive.
  
  The appetisers all came with sauces that looked and tasted like thousand island dressing- thick, creamy, too sweet, and gloppy. This included the chicken satay. The actual chicken was tenderly grilled, but flavorless, and the sauce ruined it. The chickpea patty appetiser was actually decent.
  
  The curries had no real flavor, other than way too much coconut milk and too much sweetener. You'll find the same curries for half the price in any high street Thai restaurant. The "inventive" duck red curry with lychees tasted like a dessert, with no real flavor.
  
  The service was very polite and well intentioned, but quite new (we had to go and ask to have our water refilled; and our appetiser plates cleared).
  
  The bar below seemed quite trendy. I'd recommend this restaurant only if you need someplace sophisticated but not overpriced in the Trafalgar Square area. If you are looking for brilliant cuisine, skip this place.

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  Katana @ The International

  116 St. Martin's Lane London WC2N 4BF uk
  
  amandaharrison

  7th February 2008

  Yeuch.

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  I'm not even sure what I've given the one star for. It wasn't the food, the atmosphere, the room, or the service that's for sure. I'll give it for the location which is a hop from Charing Cross or Leicester Square.
  
  The food was vile. I had what was supposed to be "Salt and pepper tofu, green mango, Thai shallots, chilli, coriander & nam jim". God knows what nam jim is, but what I got was something that looked the sort of thing remaining in a frying pan when you've done an egg badly with some unidentifiable veg and certainly not green mango, or, if there was, it was masquerading as something else.
  
  Then I had "Roast duck breast & lychee red curry, bean sprouts, bok choy & crisp shallots". How I was supposed to eat it is anyone's guess. The bowl itself was pretty, by the way, but inside it the duck had slimy fat on; the curry was reddish creamy slop; two lychees and no shallots. The bok choi, when I found it, was OK.
  
  Mint tea was served in a dirty cup; and the teapot had had its broken spout glued back on again which made for some rather attractive staining and made me squirm thinking what sort of germs were lurking in the cracks.
  
  Service was pathetic, I think the waitress was embarrassed, either at the food, the ambience or the generally shabbiness of the place.
  
  Yeuchh. I haven't been somewhere so horribly bad with such uncared for slop for food for a long time.
  
  Need to know anything else?!!

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