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Review by david_2001

Rating: 4.00
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This is a modern 'canteen' restaurant with hard wood bench or breakfast bar style seating arrangements.

The food is an excellent choice of staples (including freshly baked bread and soup) and tried and trusted favorites such as risotto, pasta, chille con carne, shepherds pie or quiche type options.

There is a 'serve your own' selection of salads as well as a choice of delicious home baked puddings.

I have only been here at lunchtime and for me it has the ideal combination of being quick, tasty, reasonably priced and catering to the local community and office workers.

Utilitarianism at it's best, cup of tea or fruity red optional.]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0000 /review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1t16a8268958062 david_2001 51.505595 -0.099557 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1305t8
Review by rthould

Rating: 5.00
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I am a recent convert to the Table and think it should be as popular in the evenings and for Saturday brunch as it is during weekdays. I think they must have really upped their game since the reviews below as I really can't fault it (and promise I'm not in their employ). The food is great quality and at really reasonable prices. I've been there for brunch and very much enjoyed their eggs benedict and american style pancakes. They've recently started opening on Thursday and Friday nights and have a varied menu - there really is something for everyone. I have found the steak particularly delicious. Starters are about £3, mains between £8 and £13 and puddings at £3. I've only had the £12 ish wines and they've been delicious - much nicer than similar priced wines in comparable places. And it's a nice relaxed yet stylish atmosphere. Get yourself down there for goodness sake.]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:47:29 +0000 /review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1305t839945159 rthould 51.505595 -0.099557 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1135h8
Review by DanWilkinson

Rating: 3.00
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Apart from the ubiquitous Starbucks etc, there are precious few places round here for a decent sit-down breakfast, so on the recommendation of a colleague I headed over for a breakfast meeting the other week. Top stuff all-round, eggs benedict featured top-notch bacon and great hollandaise. Only complaint might have been faintly watery eggs, but that's more unfortunate than unskilled in my opinion.

If you're after a hot brekkie in this part of town and don't fancy a grease-fest, you won't be disappointed. Great coffee too - would be the best around if it weren't for Monmouth...]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:44:58 +0000 /review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1135h81507800398 DanWilkinson 51.505595 -0.099557 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1t62e8
Review by Angel_Bury

Rating: 1.00
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oh dear this was a fishy disaster...I work just around the corner from the table and popped in last summer to have lunch fresh off their barbeque -which was parked out the back from about noon till 2.30 weekdays. I went for the fish kebabs served up with a taboubelish offering along with a melon and mint salad for pud.
I did rock up pretty late - just after 2 and I was bleedin starving! So I scuttled back to my desk clutching my £10 lunch near dribbling at the prospect. What I got was a couple of undercooked tentacles masquerading as squid clinging to a charred wooden skewer and one solitary unidentifiable lump of white fish.
What a swindle! They were clearly running short of supplies so had slipped quarter sized postions into take away boxes and hoped for the best. The melon and mint salad was delicious though, but not exactly rocket science.
Hopefully Shaun the chef of Walid's review is a new recruit and has put a stop to such shady practices. I've never bothered with setting foot in the place again.]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 21:36:58 +0000 /review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1t62e81157775104 Angel_Bury 51.505595 -0.099557 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1a82v7
Review by walid

Rating: 3.00
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The Table is found on the ground floor of the offices of the architects Allies and Morrison, who designed this interesting space. It is both earthy, minimalist and friendly kind of space.

The Table offers award winning self service food, carefully sourced and deliciously prepared. They even won the Time out Best Cheap Eats 2006. So in other words they must be doing something right!

According to their brochure - wherever possible they use organic, seasonal and locally sourced products. They are GM-free and
everything they serve is produced
in-house each day.

Unfortunately I was at the Table only for a quick coffee as I was early for a meeting across the street. Luckily however I got to meet with Shaun who is the chef / manager at the Table. You can see a picture of him. Shaun was very friendly person and really reflects the kind of brand values this places is giving out.

In terms of the coffee that I had it was a machiato that was correctly priced at £1.40 for central London. Coffee also tasted pretty good, probably Ivvy or Lavaza coffee I think.

They have this cool wooden structure that serves as a kind of buffet salad which immediately caught my attention when I came in.

For now I'm going to give this place a 3 star but I think once I have had the chance to taste one of their meals I will probably give them an extra star ;-)

PS. 1st two pictures are courtesy of Michael Franke]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:42:45 +0000 /review/uk/london/cafe/1o32j8h/the-table/1a82v71399651329 walid 51.505595 -0.099557