BEWARE BEACH BLANKET BABYLON. The worst dining experience of my life. Although it is unfair to call it a dining experience seeing as we never got to eat. We booked a table for 9pm, were seated at 10.30pm and left at 11pm when we still had not received menus, drinks or an apology. Steer clear is the only advice I can offer.

Its funny but i thought the same as the last reviewer. The place was disgusting and dirty. Its the worst restaurant in london. The food is really bad.They are lucky they are notting hill otherwise they would not have survived. Tourist come here and don't come back but there is always another gullible one. This place reminds me of the really awful places in spain that are tourist traps and have no regards to quality or hygiene.
The decor on closer inspection are just cheap copies and the fabric they use are synthetic.I wonder if they are fire proofed.Its a wonder how people can be impressed by a few shiny fake bling.Again lack of education. I suppose the people in the know has never awarded them any awards ever, so this shows its impressing the wrong kind of people.Bridge and tunnel and chavs favour this place. I could not get out of there fast enough.

this is the worst restaurant i think i have been to in London. its service is appalling, the food is worse than average, and I just find the place DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY. We were sitting at the back of the restaurant and all I could smell was the dirty floor and rubbish that they obviously hold at the back of the restaurant. This restaurants has thrived because of the area, and that is it.

I have been to Beach Blanket Babylon about five times now. I absolutely love it. Its design is spectacular and its service excellent. We have enjoyed every time we've been there. Thank you guys!

How this restaurant has got good reviews is beyond me. We only had a party of 9 people and were only presented with a Set Menu - we were not even told that we could not order a la carte when we booked. Service was so slow- We booked for 9.30 but our starter arrived at 10.45 There was no vegetarian on the set menu (3 people were vegetarian). When asked if the chicken or salmon was free range or organic the manager has to go ask the kitchen. We ordered our 3 courses at start but after having our main course the two deserts we all opted for; they said they had run out. Why tell us at the end? Food was average and nothing special and a lot to pay for farmed chicken. I would rather spend my money in a proper restaurant rather than this bar cum restaurant. This place is just taking advantage of the area.

Decor is fantastic and frankly that was all that was! We booked a table for 9.30pm some weeks in advance and sadly we found ourselves in the position of ordering our meals at 11.30pm only to be told that nearly half the menu was no longer available to us. Our Vegetarian was served Meat and one of our Party was not served his main meal at all! when we complained we were told by the very unhelpful staff that the Kitchen was now shut!
I will never return.

Hi,

When you people go out for dinner, are you actually in a hurry or there to relax?

Maybe if you would stop checking your watch and stop moaning about the service you would have a better time.

Beach Blanket has been there for seventeen years and not for no reason.

Maybe the menu is not what you like.. fair enough!

Who knows? If you would try to enjoy yourself a bit more, the food might be tastier in the end..

Well whatever,
I guess I just don't like people who complain all the time..

:)

Utterly the worst restaurant I have ever been to due to the diabolical service and lack of attention to detail. The venue itself was interesting and had the potential to be great. Having now read reviews on this site, I cannot believe they are still open, but not surprised that the owner would not take my call when I rang to complain a short while ago. I was told he does not take outside calls. No surprise there.



I had organised a media event there for clients. Everything was wrong. Worst of all, we had placed our menu orders in advance, but they brought out something completely different and I was told what they brought out was better than what we ordered, so like it or lump it!



Lunch lasted 3 hours +, with gaps in between courses of up to an hour. I had to complain so many times that the food went cold. Staff were so unintrusive they were invisible, and I resorted to serving drinks myself.



I complained until it became a joke even down to the fact that we had been told that they were doing name cards for us and when I got there they handed me some roughly cut up card and a pen!



I even had to go downstairs and swipe table cloths off other tables as we didn't have any and nobody brought them to us when I asked.



When I compained about the different menu, I was told that the chef was not happy with what he got at market that morning so got something different. Fine - but could he not have told me? Was he not happy with potatoes either - as we didn't get them either, although they were ordered. I was there from 10am after all. They served us fishcakes instead of mussels and one of the diners had to stop as she had a wheat allergy and realised the breadcrumbs could have given her a reaction. We ordered John Dory and got sea bass.



Toilets were dirty and smelly, the manager argued like the blazes with every point I made and refused to let me speak to the owne