Vermuteria

For toilet you must use the public dirty ones, in a place that sells vermouths at 10£ a glass, sorry not a glass, 10£ an empty glass, feels not ok. I honestly liked the idea, but sadly the realisation is a bad replica of a tapas place. With low quality facilities and overpriced food.

Food was beyond my expectations, I tried slow cooked lamb shoulder and I highly recommend it! I believe its better in the summer, in cold December day it was a bit noisy inside but overall positive experience.

The food was very good. Slow cooked lamb shoulder was delicious and tender. For mushroom risotto I liked it but I wish it had some more flavourful mushrooms in it. For the price, it felt cheaper mushrooms overpowered the dish and made it quite bland. The friend I went with was celiac and unfortunately the waitress wasn’t sure which dishes were GF and which ones weren’t. Thankfully the menu indicated the food which was not GF (the ones that were GF were left blank). This confused us about the desserts as it looked all desserts were GF using the same logic; however it wasn’t the case. Waitress didn’t know it either and first said a dish was GF then said it wasn’t. Unfortunately we had to cancel our dessert order. Other than that it was lovely, I’d visit again.

Wry nice and comfortable place to eat, serving staff was very friendly and provided a lovely dining experience. Much better than some other places in London, who could take a lesson from this restaurant, 4 stars better than Via Emilia

Editing after returning for food. Only come here for drinks. The food is just okay. Given this place is in coal drops yard, I expected much more. The first time I came here, we just ordered cocktails, and they were great to sit on the terrace and chat. The second time we came here, we sat for food and I was disappointed. The starters were pretty good. We got the meat board and the croquettes. The mains were not what I expected. The lamb shoulder was dry, and the rigatoni was a bit bland.

We arrived as a party of two and were seated at a table. The waiter, Frank, was extremely friendly and very helpful. After 20 minutes, a woman who introduced herself as the manager approached us, asking if we could move to the bar seating. We told her no, as we were comfortable where we were. Ten minutes later, she came back again, insisting that we move, and she did two very serious things: She lied, claiming that the table we were at was reserved. When we pointed out that there was no reserved sign on the table, she fell silent but continued to pressure us to move, adding that we had been there for an hour already. Annoyed, I told her we had only been there for 30 minutes and asked her to let us enjoy our drinks in peace. At this point, she sarcastically insulted me, saying, “You’re really very kind!” Is this how you treat your customers? I absolutely do not recommend this place to anyone, neither for the quality nor for the customer service. Thankfully, there are other places in King’s Cross to go to, and besides, the bar stools are extremely uncomfortable and unsuitable for people with mobility issues.

I had an espresso and my friend had tea. It was all very good. The service was very good and the atmosphere too.

I came here for lunch with my mother and daughter, the service was exceptionally good, we had a super friendly and attentive host. We ordered the risotto which was perfectly cooked and full of flavour. I ordered a glass of the pinot noir which was also reasonably priced for the size and fresh. I would definitely return and recommend. It seems the more negative reviews are around busy periods so maybe that's a staffing issue, but my experience was exemplary.

For toilet you must use the public dirty ones, in a place that sells vermouths at 10£ a glass, sorry not a glass, 10£ an empty glass, feels not ok. I honestly liked the idea, but sadly the realisation is a bad replica of a tapas place. With low quality facilities and overpriced food.

Food was beyond my expectations, I tried slow cooked lamb shoulder and I highly recommend it! I believe its better in the summer, in cold December day it was a bit noisy inside but overall positive experience.

The food was very good. Slow cooked lamb shoulder was delicious and tender. For mushroom risotto I liked it but I wish it had some more flavourful mushrooms in it. For the price, it felt cheaper mushrooms overpowered the dish and made it quite bland. The friend I went with was celiac and unfortunately the waitress wasn’t sure which dishes were GF and which ones weren’t. Thankfully the menu indicated the food which was not GF (the ones that were GF were left blank). This confused us about the desserts as it looked all desserts were GF using the same logic; however it wasn’t the case. Waitress didn’t know it either and first said a dish was GF then said it wasn’t. Unfortunately we had to cancel our dessert order. Other than that it was lovely, I’d visit again.

Wry nice and comfortable place to eat, serving staff was very friendly and provided a lovely dining experience. Much better than some other places in London, who could take a lesson from this restaurant, 4 stars better than Via Emilia

Editing after returning for food. Only come here for drinks. The food is just okay. Given this place is in coal drops yard, I expected much more. The first time I came here, we just ordered cocktails, and they were great to sit on the terrace and chat. The second time we came here, we sat for food and I was disappointed. The starters were pretty good. We got the meat board and the croquettes. The mains were not what I expected. The lamb shoulder was dry, and the rigatoni was a bit bland.

We arrived as a party of two and were seated at a table. The waiter, Frank, was extremely friendly and very helpful. After 20 minutes, a woman who introduced herself as the manager approached us, asking if we could move to the bar seating. We told her no, as we were comfortable where we were. Ten minutes later, she came back again, insisting that we move, and she did two very serious things: She lied, claiming that the table we were at was reserved. When we pointed out that there was no reserved sign on the table, she fell silent but continued to pressure us to move, adding that we had been there for an hour already. Annoyed, I told her we had only been there for 30 minutes and asked her to let us enjoy our drinks in peace. At this point, she sarcastically insulted me, saying, “You’re really very kind!” Is this how you treat your customers? I absolutely do not recommend this place to anyone, neither for the quality nor for the customer service. Thankfully, there are other places in King’s Cross to go to, and besides, the bar stools are extremely uncomfortable and unsuitable for people with mobility issues.

I had an espresso and my friend had tea. It was all very good. The service was very good and the atmosphere too.

I came here for lunch with my mother and daughter, the service was exceptionally good, we had a super friendly and attentive host. We ordered the risotto which was perfectly cooked and full of flavour. I ordered a glass of the pinot noir which was also reasonably priced for the size and fresh. I would definitely return and recommend. It seems the more negative reviews are around busy periods so maybe that's a staffing issue, but my experience was exemplary.

Disrespectful, and they truly don't care We had a disastrous Christmas lunch experience with the team here in December. They booked us for outside seating (!), in December, by default, without any warning, and made us sit at below zero temperatures with a couple of heaters that were not enough at all. They have also overcharged us for wine we didn't order, and it took weeks to negotiate and get refund for this. To add an insult to the injury, they were incredibly arrogant and even rude when we politely complaned later. A short summary of their responses: they apparently told us it would be outside in an email confirmation (they didn't, we went through all emails); we should've known the venue and that there wasn't enough space (!!) (why to take a booking then if there's not enough space for this number of people?); we could've cancelled on the day and went somewhere else (seriously, with the large group of people some of whom travelled from far to get together, at Christmas outing time, how easy would it be to find another place?); and that it's totally ok to sit outside in December (seriously, in London??). The responses made us feel that they simply didn't care about customers but only about how much extra they could make during high demand season. They've also suggested we should come back so they could make up of it. Seriously?? No goodwill compensation was offered, of course. I'd like to warn anyone against coming here. The food was overpriced and not impressive either.