Alper K.
Yelp
So here's deal, this restaurant opened by the owners of Yosma London who also used to own the sorts of Angelique which was one of the long lasting, entertaining, innovative establishments in Turkey.
What happened during the period of Angelique to Hovarda to get their heads so up in their asses is a mistery.
We had a reservation to Hovarda for 8 people 8:30 on the second floor. Besides having a very difficult process during the reservations, we were scolded for being late 15 min in a very rude manner... After getting settled to our table, the waitress just started to bring or 'throw' the plates on the table continously in a rush - saying that we have to get up by 10.30 from our seating. Without waiting us to finish the plates, she started to take away them and bring the first course. In addition to this horrible table service, she didn't want to bring the deserts we have paid saying that it is time for us to leave the table... Only little we knew that the part we had to deal with the waitress was just the beginning.
Then the 'most unprofessional' manager we had seen joins in... We have told them that we can pay to open a bottle and stay for longer which was what we have been told in our reservation and get confirmed! However for some reason(?), after 'long' conversations between the management team they couldn't arrange this as well. After several attempts to secure our table anywhere in the restaurant, we have been repeatly told that there is nothing they could do besides giving us one small table for 8 people to squeeze in which was of course unacceptable.
So here the things started to get heated where the manager started to act aggresive, pulling the chair we sit in to the side in order to make us get up. At that point, we had have enough and asked for the bill, the manager approached telling to our friend: 'I will pay your bill but just leave'... and asked us to step outside if we wanted to.
Funny enough, the owners who was aware of it all didn't do anything to interfere or to accomodate us.
So it happened to be an adventerous night for us and we ended up going to Soho House for a nice chill drinks.
If you want horrible service, mediocre greek/turkish food and trying to hard to be Scorpios, Mykonos like atmosphere, do visit Hovarda in London otherwise there are millions of better restaurants/bars in town with better food, music and atmosphere.