Lena Bar

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Basement,
66 Great Eastern Street,
Shoreditch,
London,
EC2A 3JT

(020) 7739 5714

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Reviewer greenbasil
18/11/2009
Dishonest, rude, pretentious. They don`t honour the 50% off spirits and wine as stated on their website. Popped in for an early after work drink before heading elsewhere, told we couldn't sit in the bar even though there were 8 waiters fiddling and not doing much as the place was empty.

Made us sit in the restaurant at which point we should've left as we said we only wanted drinks. Charged us service charge for sitting in the restaurant and £15 for two drinks (a small red wine and a spirit mixture) I wouldn`t mind paying this if it was the price but as we were there during happy hour and expected that I was a bit annoyed in particular with their dishonesty when politely asked that they should be 50% off one of the waiters called another over and they adamantly refused point blank to acknowledge the happy hour drinks.

We left at 7pm and the place was still empty apart from a couple of tourists. I guess whoever visits once never never never returns! If you are in the area there are many many other bars to pick from which are much better and polite and give you the correct service!
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Reviewer paintwhatisee
12/07/2011
Hi Greenbasil,
so sorry you had such a bad experience at Lena.
I have been there last week and think I couldn't have made a better choice to treat my friend for her birthday.
We booked dinner for 3 of us and had some delicious starters to share and then off to the main course, 3 different and each of them had a fantastic presentation.
We weren't very impressed with the desserts however we then moved downstairs to the Jazz bar and finished off the evening relaxing on some after dinner cocktails.
Lovely place and perfect location in vibrant Shoreditch.

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