I went to Wallace & co for Sunday lunch today and was very impressed. I had the roast pork belly and would probably say it was the best pork belly I've ever had (and I've had a fair few). The £15 for Sunday lunch (roast and a pudding) is an absolute steal. Especially when you consider that the majority of pubs in the area would charge more than this for substantially inferior food.
The portions are great and the ambience is very relaxed and homely reminding me very much of Rover Cottage.

All in all it was a great dining experience and Greg certainly seem's to have the bite to support his bark.

Well done.

I had been to Wallace & Co about 2-3 months ago for breakfast and thoroughly enjoyed my meal. There was nothing outstanding about the service but the meal I had (scrambled egg and salmon on toast) and the setting were both delightful. Because I had enjoyed my first visit I recommended this as a breakfast spot to friends of mine who were visiting from abroad. We arrived to find that we couldn't sit anywhere as all of the tables, although empty, had not been cleared and were dirty and therefore we had to wait for the waitress to clear a table before we could sit down. I found this ridiculous as the restaurant was practically empty and thus the staff could not use being busy as an excuse. We ordered a round of coffee's and water and explained that we would order breakfast as well. Although the coffee was brought in good time it was cold and weak. We never received our water. I ordered eggs benedict and the description on the menu is poached eggs with ham on an English muffin with hollandaise sauce. After 35 minutes our breakfast finally arrived once again cold and rather than an English muffin I had a piece of dried toast cut in a circle. When I enquired what had happended to the English muffin I was told by the waitress in an apathetic manner that she thinks the kitchen had run out of English muffins and hence had to use toast instead. I am not sure why this was not communicated to us beforehand. The staff were quite franky useless. Considering the restaurant was bordering on empty and there were only 4 tables the mistakes made were unacceptable.

Really surprised by all the negative reviews! My boyfriend and I went for Saturday brunch, and had a really enjoyable experience. The food is simple - but that's what the restaurant is all about - the best seasonal food served up in a straight-forward, no nonsense way. One thing's for sure - this blows Carluccio's out the water.

My boyfriend and I visited the place in two different occasions and so we had a lunch and a breakfast and I don't know if we were unlucky as we chose the wrong day or the service are always like that. Basically, we ordered 2 different plates both of them were quite basic: no vegetables, no potatoes. Nothing Just the plate as we ordered. Waiters and Waitresses seem to be lost, or looks like being there for the first.
The second time our table was already set but was dirty: it looks like someone did not clean it before setting it.
Food and presentation: I ordered salmon with scramble eggs and muffin, my boyfriend ordered a full veg breakfast. I had a white muffin cut in two pieces, one side with scramble eggs and another with salmon. That's it. No salad, no side veg. Nothing i could not do at home for less. My boyfriend had a veggie breakfast without any toast even if it was included in the menu, and when he asked for it the answer was it would have taken longer for the bread .Eventually he got it after 15 minutes, when the breakfast was already cold.

1 star is being generous... unless Wallace & Co is trying new interpretations of classic dishes which we somehow didn't appreciate. Gravalax was unadulterated raw salmon (not the slightest hint of dill or anything else); chicken and chips was covered in a tomato sauce that had so much taragon my mouth was partially anesthetised, not that that helped the burnt chips go down; even a drink was served with ice that managed to taste musty; and, finally, the one thing that Greg the Grocer would surely get right... spring greens, er, no, worst of the lot... over-cooked white cabbage sitting in a bowl full of tepid water. Needless to say we didn't wait to be further disappointed by pudding. At least the service was friendly (and apologetic), though we could have done without seeing a chef wandering through the restaurant with a filthy tea towel over his shoulder. Cooking doesn't get worse than this.

Third time unlucky. I’ve been to Wallace & Co. for a 3rd time thinking I would give them a chance to redeem themselves for the first 2 fiasco experiences, just to face another disaster. By far the worst service I’ve ever experienced in a restaurant or even cafe.
My 1st bad experience at W&Co. was when I took 11 friends for brunch and they managed to get 11 out of our 12 orders wrong, half of the food arrived when we were about to pay the bill and a few dishes didn’t even turn up. Service was just chaos.
2nd time on a quiet Tuesday evening. I was told 30 minutes after ordering our food that they didn’t have one of the 2 dishes. My partner’s dish arrived when they informed me they didn't have my fish and I should order something else.
3rd and final straw. Well, they can’t get a coffee and cakes wrong, right? They managed!
I went for a coffee and cake on a Sunday afternoon. I placed my order for a coffee, tea, scones and a cake slice. After 20min we finally had our drinks, tea with bag inside and milk, no cutlery to remove the bag or a place to dispose it. No sugar on the table or offered, we decided to stand up and pick a sugar pot after waiting for a while for one of the careless staff. After having finished our drinks, we decided to ask the staff for our scones and cakes ordered 40mins earlier only to be told that the scones have finished long before we arrived. They apologised and brought us the wrong cake, not what we ordered. Definitely not a Masterchef's standard!
Alex, Putney

Bill Shaw, from Blackburn, Lancashire.

My wife and I were very happy with the food, the ambiance, the wine and the reasonable prices for everything.
It isn't The Criterion, so if that's what you want, don't bother. I wouldn't wear a dinner suit to eat here.

It's a friendly place where everyone will soon get to know you.
If you want good food, good wine, good service and prices that don't give bankers £4m bonuses on your overdraft charges, then you really should give it a try.

The salads are the best I've tasted, the steak & chunky chips were delicious. The monfish skewers melted in one's mouth.
The treacle tart?? It was made with treacle! Do I sense a new trend arriving?

In the words of the governor of California, I'll be back!