I celebrated my birthday at Mint Leaf this week and had a wonderful evening. We started with cocktails in the bar where there was a DJ, then we had a sharing menu in the restaurant, and back to the bar where we boogied until late. Incredible cocktails, delicious food, attentive service, and an electric atmosphere. Couldn't have asked for anything better, they even surprised me with a birthday cake (and my friends didn't even ask for it). We will all be back there very soon, and firm regular!

I went to the willy wonka party on NYE with 8 friends. I was one of the best new yaers eve partioes I have ever been to - the place looked amazing, the staff where friendly (especially willy wonka who hosted the night) and the atmosphere was great. One of the best nights of my life - everything was perfect (though too many sweets and chocolate didn't do much for our figures). It is a beautiful venue - i hope they do more events like this. Well done all the MINT LEAF team.

Average food in a very stylish restaurant. The atmosphere in Mint Leaf was quite good. Most dishes were okay taste, well presented. The only food I like were the lamb kebab with mint and coriander and another dish, gloriously spicy, with tomatoes and chick peas whose name I cant remember. The Mint Leaf is very pricey, but it never claims to be cheap. It's definitely an upper end place for price. Its pretentious in terms of food quality, but service is good. Not the best indian but its ok.

rubbish, overrated, and not worth the money. This is not fusion food, nor is it Indian food! Booked for a special birthday night and it was a huge disappointment.

Pretentious, over-priced and rubbish! An awful restaurant which claims to be a "fusion" restaurant because if it was in India it would be found out as a purveyor of crap food that even a street-seller would be shut down for. We went as a party of ten and were met with waiters who couldn't even pronounce the names of the dishes they were serving and couldn't get the order right. The food was lukewarm and of the poorest quality. The Peshwari naan came with a filling worthy of the skiniest super-model, a biryani made with the best frozen vegetables from the value range at Tescos and a boondi raita without any boondi! The complaints were met with self-defensive derision by the Brazilian manager who didn't know her chaat from her korma.
Do not go there! A complete rip-off!

Went to this restaurant for a friends bday and I was totally disappointed.

This restaurant had been recommended to me in the past but I hadn't been so when a friend suggested it for a birthday I was really excited and looking forward to going.

When I arrived the receptionist was really polite and friendly but after that it was downhill from there.

I'm not sure what the hype is about with this restaurant because the food was cold, the dish that I had lacked flavour and the meat in the dish was really poor quality and was oily. I've had better chicken in Nando's for a fraction of the price and my local indian restaurant is fare more superior than this.

I was disappointed with the food but the service was even more abmissal. Our waitress was rude, miserable and we were constantly having to go and look for her and chase things up. The drinks were expensive came out warm and we waited 25 minutes before they finally got the first drinks to us. It wasn't that busy that they were rushed of their feet that there was an excuse for it. The waitress never smiled once and was unfriendly and unapproachable. Guite frankly I've fet more welcome and had better service in MacDonalds.

For a restaurant of this calibre I expected more and I don't mind paying for this if its good. They also add a 12.5% service charge to your bill and again I have no problem with paying it and I expect to pay it if the service is good but to have extremely bad service and then have it added to your bill is a bit of an insult.

The only positives that I can say is that the receptionist was friendly, there was a waiter that showed me where the toilets were that was very polite and although a bit cold was brought out quite promptly.

It's a shame that something that I was looking forward to turned out so badly.

My bill was expensie and it was a total waste of money.

I visited Mint Leaf on a recommendation for my birthday. Not only was the food lovely but the whole experience was great. They had organised a birthday cake, the staff were first class, and the cocktails amazing. I will be going back very soon to work my way through the rest of the cocktail menu!

Visited on Sunday 6the December. Receptionist did not welcome us with a happy 'namaste' but a blunt and arrogant 'have you a reservation'. Beautifully designed. Starters not too bad, main course very bland. Didn't get the desert we asked for. Liked the way the bar was set up. Definitely too expensive for what you get.
Waiters very good, receptionist definitely lacks people skills.

Went here with my boyfriend about a month ago - would not recommend it to anyone. The place was shabby, the music deafening and the food was awful. I know this is contemporary Indian food but it does not give a restaurant to serve up miniature portions and tasteless food. All meals were served in teacup sized bowls. Our poppadom starters were the size of 10p pieces and had a similar texture. Every dish was disappointing. Avoid this place.

I visited the Mint Leaf for the first time at the weekend to celebrate Diwali with my family and had a lovely sea bass, it simply melts in your mouth.

The place was very warm and light with lovely candles throughout the restaurant.

The service was very nice and friendly and we were given a little goody bag with a candle inside and told that Holland Park Candles provided them. I will definitely be going back to have more sea bass.

We moved through to the bar and polished off some cocktails a fantastic evening.

svery slow service but great decor

The decor was lovely, if a little dark for my taste. The service was fairly friendly and prompt. The food was of a good standard, though some of it was over-seasoned for my palate (and I like salt on everything!). The wine list looked very impressive, - though we fancied beer, - two of which they'd run out of. The prices were pretty high, though thankfully, we had a 50% offer, - which made it much more reasonable. Overall, we had a very pleasant evening, - though I wouldn't be in the biggest hurry to return, - particularly if paying full prices.

Excellent decor, the place looks amazing. Food is of a high standard, but the whole thing is let down by the noise! The bar plays disco music whilst you're eating in the restaurant.

I was with a party of 8 and couldn't hear the person opposite me let alone anyone else. Avoid Mint Leaf for anything other than a drunken night out!


Decor and Surroundings 5 stars, Food 4 stars, Staff 3 stars, Value For Money 2 stars, Atmosphere 1 star.

Mint Leaf have the rudest, coldest most repugnant staff I've ever encountered. Before I even arrive they phoned me insisting I must be there exactly on time!

When I arrived, on time but without my partner, I get interrogated as to when she's going to arrive. I then get left alone for 10 minutes. No one asks if I want a drink. When my partner arrives we get served after about another 15 minutes. No one ever asks us how the food is and after the first round of drinks we never get asked if we want another. We wait 15 minutes before having to ask to see the dessert menu. We are told 'You pay more for dessert!'. We paid the bill and left. They got their tip removed. Mint Leaf was skin-crawlingly awful.

I went to the Mint Leaf last Friday, having heard great things about it from a friend who had visited it about 6 months ago. I am not sure if it has undergone a dramatic transformation since then or whether my friend has acquired a taste for poshified curry, but we were left speechless after having paid £123 for two people for some over spiced Massala and lard-laden lentils accompanied by a bottle of mediocre wine and – this is the most traumatising bit - a solo Mariachi band (a saxophonist!) who wandered the tables. Bless his lungs; the sax-guy went on relentlessly all night. To spice things up more, several waiters kept sneaking up behind us in an attempt to find out how things were going. And so we departed, having gulped down our curries in silence (was impossible to speak or hear), and with a sense of having had a most surreal experience.
Pity, as the décor is quite nice.

I chose Mint Leaf because I was entertaining a couple of out-of-towners and thought they would be impressed by the dramatic, even theatrical, dark wood decor. We enjoyed good cocktails and reasonable food. OK, the food is not great value for money, however its location means that it is never going to be.
Simply enjoy the atmosphere. Mint Leaf is a big restaurant with a bar and therefore of course it can be a bit loud, but that is part of its charm. I would definitely go again - although mainly due to location, atmosphere and setting.