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Kettners
29 Romilly Street
London Chinatown
London
W1D 5HP
tel.: +44(0)2077346112
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Kettners
Features: Takeaway, Vegetarian Dishes, Cuisine: Pizzeria, Private Parties: Up to 80 guestsAverage Price Per Person: £30
Nearest Transport: Leicester Square / London Underground
Originally opened by Auguste Kettner (former chef to Napoleon III) Kettners is a pizzeria (established for more than 50 years) that also caters for vegetarians and provides a takeaway menu. Catering for private parties of up to 80 guests is available upon request. They also have a champagne bar with a live pianist.
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We should be grateful for the survival of Kettners. Even after its latest relaunch, its Soho premises offer what’s quite possibly the most authentic evocation of what a restaurant of Victorian times might have felt like. (The only real competition is Regent Street’s Café Royal W1, currently being incorporated into a de luxe hotel, in the course of redevelopment.)read more
The renewed interest in Kettners from the London dining community prompted me to check out their website the other day and I read with interest on the homepage about the pudding bar that was available for breakfast.
As an aside, you can read the official press release here .
Being someone that likes to do the odd breakfast meeting, I called up and booked breakfast for 3 of us on a rainy Friday morning.
When we turned up we were shown to a table by the window in what was a completely empty restaurant. It was 9am and we were the only table there for the duration of our visit, which lasted until 10.30am.
It should have been a quick bite to eat and coffee in a nice environment, but the service was exceptionally slow and the atmosphere non existent, since we were the only table there.
The breakfast menu offers fresh juices, a great selection of teas, healthy options like muesli and hot options like omelette. The food was actually quite good, but it took over 30 mins to arrive, which was unacceptable.
I was also disappointed with the refurb. I remember Kettners as warm, cosy and a little bit seedy. The refurb has given it a stark, fresh, sanitary image. Maybe it's better at night for dinner, but on this wet and rainy morning, it was just depressing.
As an aside, you can read the official press release here .
Being someone that likes to do the odd breakfast meeting, I called up and booked breakfast for 3 of us on a rainy Friday morning.
When we turned up we were shown to a table by the window in what was a completely empty restaurant. It was 9am and we were the only table there for the duration of our visit, which lasted until 10.30am.
It should have been a quick bite to eat and coffee in a nice environment, but the service was exceptionally slow and the atmosphere non existent, since we were the only table there.
The breakfast menu offers fresh juices, a great selection of teas, healthy options like muesli and hot options like omelette. The food was actually quite good, but it took over 30 mins to arrive, which was unacceptable.
I was also disappointed with the refurb. I remember Kettners as warm, cosy and a little bit seedy. The refurb has given it a stark, fresh, sanitary image. Maybe it's better at night for dinner, but on this wet and rainy morning, it was just depressing.
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