This is one of our new "locals". The restaurant serves consistently good food. Their chocolate and calvados pudding with salted caramel ice-cream is a personal favorite!
The staff are friendly and helpful and the bar has a good mix of bottled beers and organic porters as well as London lagers on tap.
It is a great place for a reasonably priced lunch (good size sandwich, salad and chips for under £6) as well as a special dinner, or just a cool place to have a beer and wasabi nuts at the bar. It may be a little bit less accessible, but is worth the effort!

A stylish, just hip enough but chilled out local that keeps my husband and me going back at least once a week: a working lunch, a family meal or an evening out tend to end up there. On a Friday night it's buzzing but still quiet enough to talk, while mid-week the grown ups can enjoy a glass of wine while the little ones get busy with some coloring in. The staff even offers to print out favorite cartoon characters if needed. Hip and sophisticated but child friendly ambiance is a rarity on this side of town, apart from St Johns Bread and Wine.
The soups and salads deserve particular attention, and unlike some of the previous reviewers I enjoy the duo of salads every time - filled with crayfish not prawns. The mains provide the right balance between conceptual and wholesome, though I wish there was a greater selection of fish options. Also, a big thumbs up to the team for introducing film screenings (including Sunday family movies) and live jazz nights, which is a great alternative for those looking to escape overcrowded Hoxton venues. I wish the downstairs event space was utilized more often, though. It'd be great for an after school children's class of sorts or a book club. Just a thought.

Eaten here a couple times and it's always been very enjoyable - even the vegetarian option, which I chose in a moment of uncharacteristic non-carnivorousness. Had a cracking bit of beef on one of the Thursdays where they do some sort of steak night. A little confused about why some of the seats are stuck together, it can make manoeuvring a little difficult, although maybe it serves to foster a greater sense of team responsibility. Watched the rugby here, also, last weekend with my ladyfriend and had a nice couple of pints after, looking out onto Regents Canal as it froze. Good location, although I'm a bit worried about falling into the canal after having one too many Meantimes. Thankfully, thus far, it hasn't happened. Overall, a wholly enjoyable place that I'd definitely come back to when passing through Haggerston.

Oh dear. The headlines. Great space, pretty setting, chaotic service, hit and miss food. Went here for my birthday last night. Admittedly it was Valentine's but the place isn't that big and you'd think they'd be able to handle it. Prix fixe menu was £28 with a £2 surcharge if you order the rump steak.First of all the waitress was polite but was unable to explain the fancy words on the menu. 'Verrine'? Had to look on Wikipedia. Ordered the steak medium rare, and it came rare. I didn't really mind- I like my steak rare- but when there's marbling the steak really needs to be cooked properly or it's chewy. (I had to ask for a steak knife btw too).The service? 'Rabbit in the headlamps'. The manager was nice enough but needed to turn down the obsequiousness and turn 'up' the efficiency a bit. The girl took the drinks order, he took the food order and neither of them seemed to be talking to each other behind the scenes. The food was fine. Unspectacular but perfectly fine. Lobster bisque was delicious, desserts were good- I had a creme brulee. When the bill came it was a remarkable £110 for six people including drinks. (They'd added it up without including the food!) We pointed this out and but when the amended bill came back it was £40 too much. (Having just saved the restaurant £160 one would assume a bottle of wine would be on the house and not the other way round.)Turns out they had added two bottles of rose from another table. Cue much to-ing and fro-ing and maths from my poor girlfriend while I slope lower in my chair. On my birthday. (Just get me out of here) I eat out a lot. I don't want much. Just quality cutlery, simple food, delivered hot and with a minimum of fuss. I don't want to have to analyse my bill like an forensic accountant when I'm tipsy either. The space is great, with a screening room at the back. I won't be going back for dinner though. For superior canalside dining with professional staff just go to WaterHouse o

NOT GOING BACK AND NOT RECOMMENDING IT TO MY FRIENDSNot only did they forget about our booking, but the smug blond waitress gave us the Dalston hip attitude. Spoke to us like she was doing us a favour. They had a "big group" downstairs, so she warned us not everything on the menu was available. She didn't know how to say "I'm sorry". Food was served cold and wasn't anything particularly good. Specially NOT for that price. It is a nice place in an interesting location, but apart from that I just don't see why I would go and spend my money there with so many better options around the area.

I went to Waterline with my girlfriend after a hard days shopping at Covent Garden’s. The bar was busy enough to have an atmosphere but quiet enough for us to have a conversation-it was a Friday night. I started with great ale recommended by the manager, my other half had rose, which she obviously enjoyed too. I started with the salt beef, my porter had the scallops. Mine was surprisingly light and most enjoyable. My girlfriend tells me the scallops were delicous. For the mains we had the lamb and fillet steaks respectively. Both were cooked just how we liked them,-perfection and in my opinion very good value for the price. For desert I had the creme brulee which this classic lived up to all expectations, my girlfriend the panna cotta. She enjoyed the panna cotta but was curious about the chocolate mousse with black olive caramel. We'll try that when we come back, I suspect it won’t be too long.Overall an enjoyable evening with reasonable prices, good food and drink, well worth it. An observation: everyone who walked down the canal whilst we were there popped in, either to eat or just for a drink. This is sure to continue!

My partner and I decided to come here after seeing the stunning architecture and the location to the canal. The first new restaurant on that part of the canal. We were expecting good things considering the high quality of new restaurants opening up in Dalston.As expected the interior is stunning. I liked the use of old floor boards for the walls combined with high ceilings and concrete. However there is a feeling this place is trying to be a bit of everything so the table layouts for evening dining were more suitable to bar and cafe sittings. No tables fitted just a couple, and chairs are unmovable.The menu is modern British and the price tag of a good restaurant in the East End. Things sound great, BUT this is the big disappointment, then the food arrives and it was horrible.My starter which sold itself as a duo of salads, one being salmon and the other was prawn. However what arrives was a massive plate of one salad with shavings of prawn and salmon in it, smothered in red onions and tomatoes. Next for my main and a step price of £17.00 was the duck. Again my plate arrived with lukewarm seared duck and again massive amounts of what looked like the same salad but with different garnishings, this time clumps of blue cheese. Nothing like how it sold itself on the menu.Finally for dessert I had the sticky toffee pudding. It arrived flat as a pancake with melted warm ice cream and too much sickly toffee dribbled every where. I couldn't finish any of the food I ordered.In total my partner and I spent £90 including a bottle of wine. We left feeling ripped off and very very disappointed. Would not go back unless the actually got a decent chef in here. For these prices you are better off going to a proper restaurant.

This bar has a charming setting right on the canal tow path.   The restaurant cooks the best bar food I've had in London. I can highly recommend the steak and the lamb!The back room (which is available for private hire) has an amazing widescreen projector and sound system, ideal for playing movies in your own private cinema or for any party / event.A must visit if your in north London. 

This bar comes highly recommended - very chilled atmosphere, amazing grub and great music. I had the best steak I've had in years here a couple of weeks ago and will be back for more soon.

We were recommended this place by two unrelated friends so decided to make the effort to go and check it out. To be honest it's a bit of a find. It's designed with an industrial / ship theme. Quite cool really, open, spacious, decent music but by far the best thing was the atmosphere, everybody was just relaxed, just doing their thing. There were some people working, a group of girls having a boozy lunch, some people at the bar reading the papers, and loads of people just kept popping in to chat with what looked to be the owners and here was even a guy at the table in the corner who appeared to be asleep. The service was friendly and the food was good, very good in fact. I don't often say that but it was. My lamb was delicious. The only complaint was that for some reason they appear to have welded some of the chairs together with metal bars so you can't customise your seating position and if you want to move your chair to get out, the whole row moves with you...who came up with that idea and why ?? Anyway in summary, go and check this place out, it is worth it but take an angle grinder with you.