As a resident of Angel I find it quite sad that this venue has deteriorated so quickly. Today the sunday service was so dreadful, the food took over 45 mins to arrive and then 2 of the three dishes were cold. The waiter minced about with his trousers hanging well below his underwear and the waitress sat staring into space. I will not be going back.

As a resident of Angel I have never, until last night, been to Keston Lodge before. And I never will again. A bar and restaurant that boasts, Waitress Service Is Back should surely provide a decent waitress service.



We were a table of four people on a mildly busy Thursday evening. One of our starters was forgotten and our waitress (or any other waitress) was nowhere to be seen until the other starter plates were cleared. When this was mentioned to the waitress it was met with excuses like, You said you didn’t want a starter, and, We are very busy. No main course plates or empty glasses were cleared. We ended up collecting our first bottle of wine from the bar downstairs.



The food was average. Maybe Keston Lodge is a nice place to have a few drinks in the evening but I’d never go back there to find out. Rubbish!

As a resident of Angel I have never, until last night, been to Keston Lodge before. And I never will again. A bar and restaurant that boasts that Waitress Service Is Back should surely provide a decent waitress service. We were a table of four people on a mildly busy Thursday evening.



One of our starters was forgotten and our waitress (or any other waitress) was nowhere to be seen until the other starter plates were cleared. When this was mentioned to the waitress it was met with excuses like, You, said you didn’t want a starter, and, We are very busy. No main course plates or empty glasses were cleared. We ended up collecting our first bottle of wine from the bar downstairs. The food was average.



Maybe Keston Lodge is a nice place to have a few drinks in the evening but I’d never go back there to find out. Rubbish!

I visited Keston Lodge at the weekend for a birthday celebration. The roasts were amazing, and the bar and table service was brilliant - they took the time to make you feel welcome and went out of their way to help where ever they could.



We only planned on having lunch, but ended up staying well into the evening. The cocktails were too good to leave!



I'm new to the Islington area, but I would definitely recommend going to Keston Lodge - it wins hands down in comparison to a lot of the other bars in the area. I hope everyone else enjoys it as much as me and my friends did!

I had a brilliant day (and evening!) at Keston Lodge at the weekend. The roasts were amazing, definitely worth their weight!


Cocktails were good and the bar staff (albeit rushed off their feet) were brilliant, they always did their best to ensure people were happy. As i'm an Islington resident, I would definitely recommend Keston Lodge as the place to go if you are in Islington - it wins hands down in comparison to a lot of other bars in the area.



I hope you enjoy it as much as i am now i've found it!

I went to Keston Lodge yesterday as part of a pre-booked party for Sunday lunch and was not at all impressed. It has nice surroundings and staff who are severely let down by the kitchen. They managed to make a poor meal of Square Pies for some of my fellow diners as everything was served (after a wait of biblical proportions) tepid to cold, hence the phalanx of plates sent straight back to the kitchen to be re-heated!


I opted for roast beef which was late, luke warm and leathery. It appeared to have been cooked like a very well-done steak, as all sides of the thick slab were charred. It was remorselessly hard and dry. The menu proudly trumpets that the meat is all supplied by a local butcher, but I doubt that the butcher would want this kind of advert! The roast potatoes were geologically tough and some were unidentifiably distorted by god knows what kind of a process they'd been through, like something unearthed at Pompeii.


Don't waste a precious Sunday or your money at Keston Lodge!

Keston Lodge was one of the most appalling meals I have had in London. A table was booked for 2pm a week in advance. On arriving we were told that the kitchen was busy and we would not be able to order until 3.30pm. The bar staff were fantastic so it wasn't hard to pass the time. We ordered at about 3.45pm and then did not receive the first order until an hour later.


The other meals continued to come out at different times, resulting in people eating out of sync. The final two came at around 5.45pm. In addition one of these was inedible - a roast burnt to a crisp with a hair baked into the charcol.


Most of the food was bad to average. The waitress was clearly run off her feet and lacking experience and training. All in all Keston Lodge was a terrible experience.

Keston Lodge is a nice place, but I think it's probably better for a drink than an evening meal. It was a bit too busy when we went on a Friday night.

Better to go to Keston Lodge early evening or for lunch.