Jamie's Italian - Newham

Jamie Oliver you need to revisit this place or have some serious words as the whole experience was a shambles! There is no way I’d put my name to this restaurant and the food service was something you would expect to receive at a motorway service station. Utter waste of time and money!

Lovely food cooked to perfection. Waiter very helpful. Reason for 4 star and not 5 star is because the tables were very squashed together and adults at table next to us stood for a lot of their meal so no privacy whatsoever

The cutlery was covered in food. The tables were unclean. There was someone's bolognese on the floor under the table where my feet should be. Food was okay. Steak was nice but very small for the price. Fries were average and my salad consisted of a whole round lettuce...... Cosmopolitan was lovely

This is a typical Jamie’s, decor nice and clean and in keeping. Food was ok, the steak was undercooked (having asked for it to be medium rather than rare), and chips a bit hard, but everyone enjoyed their meal otherwise. Cocktails were beautiful, really fresh and pretty strong! Service also quite good, quick enough but left us to enjoy ourselves in the meantime. Great stop off before or after shopping in Westfield.

I took my wife, son and daughter-in-law for lunch today to celebrate their moving in to a new apartment in Stratford. We were attracted by the sign outside offering a Sunday Roast at £14.95. Two stars were awarded because the service was good, the Peroni beers were chilled and my Diet Coke arrived without ice as requested, plus my son 's lasagne met expectations and was hot and tasty. However, as I put in the title, the roast was the worst we had ever eaten. My son asked if it was nice and we ate it all as we were hungry and supposed to be celebrating, but I reluctantly admitted it was grim and my wife and daughter-in-law conceded it was the worst Sunday Roast they ever had, once I had said it. I had one slice of chicken with a tough skin on one side and fashionably charred until hard and difficult to cut on the other. Not an easy eat by any means. It had an odd grey (peppercorn? sauce drizzled on the plate underneath. The Yorkshire pudding was just a rustic style ball of air with little evidence of the 'pudding ' element and a hard rough unpleasant exterior that was hard to cut and harder to chew. We received a pleasing enough bowl of vegetables to share between three of us with tasty potatoes boiled in their skins. There was some charred asparagus, but no evidence of roast potatoes. I didn 't expect Jamie 's Italian to serve a standard Sunday Roast, but had it not been for the attempt at a Yorkshire pudding, I would not have recognised it by look or taste. I am not sure that anything was actually roasted at all, the Yorkie was more like an old tennis ball, no gravy, nothing I identified as a roast potato. On the one hand there is nouvelle cuisine and on the other, a breach of trade description. Unsurprisingly, we declined the dessert menu. I quietly left the table to air my complaints away from my family and the waitress introduced me to a manager, who asked if I had paid already, which I had, then left it that he would order it himself to try it. I told him I wasn 't complaining just to get money back because I really wanted to hammer home the message, but £45 for the three plates of poor food is really taking the mickey. Having returned home to Brighton and reflected upon our experience, I do actually think a gesture of goodwill was appropriate.The only thing they got right about Sunday Roast is that it was Sunday!