Vintry Kitchen Café Wine - London

Lovely restaurant with very kind service. We had our Christmasdiner at Vintry Izakaya. For us being Dutch-inhabitants) the price was high £200 for 3 persons, 3 course meal, 2 coca cola, 2 bottles of mineral water and 2 lagers), but the food and service was definitely worth it.

Great location and food. Everything fantastic. A very good Christmas lunch

Took more than one hour to deliver 3 bento boxes. Only 5 items on the whole menu. Really poor show.

Advertised as Asian tapas its actually a choice of three bento boxes, which is not the same. No ability to mix and match between the three boxes even though we were a party of 6. . Food was distinctly average. Service useless. Even when standing at the bar we had to wave to get the barman to stop chatting and serve us. Margaritas not well made, Bacardi unavailable. Weird nasty brand of tonic water . No Schweppes or fever tree. Place was more or less empty, when the rest of City restaurants in December are packed that perhaps explains everything. Shame as Asian tapas would be a good concept . We would not return.

I decided to dine at Vintry Izakaya as the venue and the menu sounded interesting. Firstly the positives, it's a beautiful restaurant and hotel. The public areas are small but tastefully decorated. Our drinks were really good and came quickly. The negatives, the lunch service was painfully slow. We were pretty much the only guests for lunch with another arriving an hour after us. The food we received whilst filling was lukewarm, we didnt mention it as we were hungry and had already waited over 30 minutes. By the time the bento boxes arrived it was well over the hour mark. To their credit they did package up a main to go but the desserts took ages to arrive which was strange as they were cold desserts! (we did think at one point that they might of forgotten to send the order through! They did however remove the desserts from the final bill One of my guests was inconvenienced and missed some appointments. It's doubtful she'd recommend the izakaya or the hotel to her corporate clients/executive network. To summarise it's hard to recommend the vintry izakaya for lunch service as it currently stands. The food just takes too long to arrive. My aim was to be in and out within 90 minutes but it took nearly 2.5 hours. The restaurant has around 70 covers but struggled with 7 guests over 2 tables, I can only imagine what it would be like if it was full. :