excellent food, great ambience with relaxed and friendly service. Highly recommended.

JL

An odd evening of pluses and minuses. On the plus side, the staff are charming and attentive and the food is pretty much OK. The major minus is the fact that this has to be the noisiest place in London. The restaurant is in the bar and the deafening din from a bunch of beer-swilling M&S-suited oiks quite ruined the evening for us.

Took my partner there for dinner on their birthday having previously very much enjoyed lunch at this restaurant. I won't be going again.

The Albannach seems to be losing the plot.
The service was below average - and the below stairs chaotic.

The restaurant area merges into the bar and the music was banging. Is it trying to be a bar or a restaurant? It's not a comfortable place to dine and talk.

Individual lapses - chipped wine-glass, out of order toilets, filled refuse bags and wedged open fire doors downstairs could all be forgiven if the food had been more pleasing. As it happened they all added to the feeling that the place wants managing.

My starter (Gressingham duck pate) was dry and tasteless. The mains were slightly better although the portion sizes are modestly sized but extravagantly priced. (But this is the West End!). The overstretched waiting staff seemed unable to cope and so the food was tepid by the time it got to table.

Overall what was meant to be a special occasion was made memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Came here with my bf. Usually this place would be way out of my price range, but we had the tastecard which gives you 50% off.
Portions are rather small, but everything we ordered (and that was a lot) was delicious!
Staff were very friendly and made us feel very welcome.
Also the interior is quite interesting and creates quite a nice atmosphere.
However the music was a bit too loud (club like), and with the mix of lots of people talking it was hard to understand eachother sometimes.
But all in all a very pleasant dining experience.

Had a lunch meeting in the private dinning room the service was excellent, I had the lamb which i was asked how I wanted it cooked which is a 1st with lamb, and they didn't disappoint. I had one glass of wine and would of had more but everyone was keeping it to one glass, which meant i couldn't take advantage of the red wine:-)

My partner & I visited Albannach last night since we have a taste london card that gets us 50% discount. The decor is modern with hints of scottishness . I particularly like the stag like lighting. The waiting staff were friendly although it took them a good while longer than I think is acceptable to initially take our food orders. I had scallops as a starter- they were delicious. light and sweet and in a delicious butter sauce. my partner had the sausage platter. It was very tasty and certainly not too small on the portion sizes. For mains, I had the black face lamb which was cooked to perfection (rare at my request)- it certainly was very tasty lamb and it came with a garlicy mash which was scrumtious. My partner had the haggis which he enjoyed but said he'd had better. we both really enjoyed our meals although there was nothing that I would consider exceptional or overly memorable. We didn't have dessert since we were both full (showing that even though the portions don't look huge, they certainly do fill you up).
Overall, we enjoyed it but considering the cost (which is reasonably expensive), I'm not sure its worth it, simple because it was pleasant but it wasn't the best food I've tasted and I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It just hasn't stuck in my memory as anything other than a meal....

Don't go there they are dishonest!

In last december I paid the cloakroom for my coat and my jacket and they lost both.
They told me that it was a mistake and that I will be of refunded...

Of course, more than 3 months after now, no news from them in spite of my emails, and I think they will never refund me!

Bar has very good atmosphere but will not be returning for food.

Seven of us went for dinner on a Saturday night. We had a drink in the bar to begin with and there is a good selection of cocktails and other drinks; although bar men looked very serious about the whole thing.

Went upstairs for dinner. Some of the waitress staff were delightful, although a little slow to take an order for drinks. Starters were all enjoyed though presentation of the odd dish was somewhat lacking.

Main courses were very mixed. Steaks were very good, but totally unaccompanied as there was no salad garnish. The chunky chips on the side were lovely. 3 of us ordered 'neeps and tatties' - these arrived cold and when sent back, they returned 10 minutes later even colder, when much of the steaks had already been eaten. One of our friends though received her meal 15 minutes after the rest of us even though her side dish was brought with the rest of the food and we were a bit sceptical about the story that her meal was 'in the lift' for well over five minutes. We also ordered the wild mushroom tortellini which was interesting: it seemed to be homemade pasta but was extremely thick. There was a small filling of what we think was feta cheese which was very unexpected as it had not been mentioned on the menu and the 'wild mushroom' was limited to a rather tasteless sauce drizzled on top.

One of the waitresses was clearly embarrassed by the level of service however until that time the speed of service had been very slow. The manager came over and apologised about our stone cold side dishes which they duly took these off the price of the bill although the meal for which we had to wait a long time stayed firmly on the bill along side the 'optional' 12 1/2% service charge - which I am afraid to say we only paid about 5%.