Côte Barbican

It was great to return to Cote at the Barbican and sit in the window enjoying the perfect lunch of steak frites... just like pre-pandemic! Excellent service and food, thank you. Go and enjoy...

Lovely meal for two , served with enthusiasm and humour an enjoyed our our free fig cocktail. This Barbican branch was well socially distanced and deserves to be much fuller!

Food where spot on and the waiters where great. Will be back!

Friendly service and good food, in a difficult environment with all of the current restrictions.

Good food, service, ambiance and felt very safe -well done

We felt we were very close to other diners. Unnecessarily so as one end of the restaurant was completely empty. Staff were as helpful as ever.

We didn't have much time to spare - trains to catch etc - but the staff made sure it all worked out well.

Safe and relaxed with lovely food as always and fab wine Excellent value and service

10/10 - service and food were fantastic. Great environment which was relaxing and not overly busy for a Saturday.

Great customer service from waiters and good tasty brunch :)

It was lovely - enhanced tremendously by the welcoming staff

Lovely food, good service, so glad to be back. Still noisy though!

Lovely food, great service and a wonderful atmosphere. So very enjoyable.

It was really nice to be back at Cote again

Over an hours wait for our food - apparently a problem in the kitchen but no extra drink or similar by way of an apology. The pudding my husband chose was unavailable. Our first time back since lockdown and overall a disappointing e perience.

The food is consistently fabulous and the service is an absolute delight. My favourite place

So good you are back. Long may it last. We have now had two brunches and several great meals. Good luck. Keep it up please.

The service was great and the food amazing. Will come back

Delicious food, probably the best we have had. No better place to eat currently near the Barbican.

Happy to see Cote open again this restaurant never disappoints

So glad that Barbican Cote is back in business, very well organised for Covid anxieties. Long may it last ... Lovely Eggs benedict, Croque Madame etc for family brunch again. Excellent steak/frites and creme caramel for lunch three days ago, two days after opening. Promise to eat here as much as I can for as long as I can.

Superb . Ate there two nights on the bounce . Top food great service and I’m fussy 👍🏼

Enjoyable evening. Good food great atmosphere, what’s not to like?

So glad reopen and same staff on duty. Food same excellent standard

Great as ever. Attentive service. Shame the lunch set menus aren’t on offer but understand the logic

The menu, the food and the service were all excellent; we enjoyed the evening and appreciated the fact that we were allowed to stay on to finish our meal, even through the official closing time had passed!

Good to return to Cote Barbican and to reacquaint ourselves with the staff we haven't seen for 6 months.

Excellent service and tasty food, only the chicken with my salad was a little too dry

As a past regular customer it was great to be back, and to see staff I knew back. Christian is, of course, a great manager!

we had a lovely evening with friends - the restaurant had a nice atmosphere, food and drink are well priced and overtall a great eveninbg had

Great location next to the Barbican. Perfect for a pre-theatre or pre-concert meal. Excellent food on a French theme, not overly complicated, just simple dishes done well and full of flavour. Breton fish stew is one of many highlights on the menu. Service is always friendly too. If you’re in the area in the morning the breakfast is highly recommended.

Cote is one of the best things to happen to the Barbican the food is sensibly priced sensibly served and always consistent quality we have been going since it opened and have always had a great experience thank you David and Patricia

A busy restaurant catering to all sorts of groups of families and friends and seemingly all sorts of occasions. The food lived up to its billing and was well cooked and served by pleasantstaff. We were hurried along slightly as we had dallied over our starters and was handed our main courses promptly, once our starters were cleared away

Wonderful value...service was great. Very friendly staff . Will definately come again!

Usual high standard. 6.15 sit down time but able to enjoy a leisurely meal and still be in my seat at the Barbican in ample time for the 7.30concert start time.

The overall experience was a great one. The staff were thoroughly friendly and the service was extremely fast, considering we lunched on a Saturday afternoon. Incredible choice of gluten-free dishes.

Nice atmosphere and decor, but the service was somewhat erratic, culminating with the presentation of a fougasse to one of our party as their main course!

WE chose the barbican cote for it’s location, right across the street from the Barbican Centre. It was extremely busy but we were seated right away due to reservations. We watched for a few minutes the rush of waiters before summoning the greeter who seated us. He took our order and in a very short time we were served the mains of minute steak and frites and chicken with mushrooms and potatoes in a delicious creamy sauce. Both dishes were excellent and a great value. Because we had more time, we also ordered desserts, chocolate mousse and apple tart. The mousse was our favorite!! We observed other orders beautifully served and would definitely recommend returning.

Not the best experience of Côte, very loud almost overwhelming noise levels. Poor food quality and just a small effort would have put it right but instead I was left waiting and waiting for a sauce that never arrived yet you were happy to charge me for it.

We were extremely disappointed that the manager argued with us when 3 steak frites came ice cold. We heard another table send back their food as it was ice cold. We had come in after the concert at the Barbican and as there had been three encores and a pause because someone fell ill during the concert it was about 9.50 pm and we were told the licence for alcohol ended at 10pm However the manager kept arguing with us that the food could not be cold as it had come straight from the Grill. Well it was ice cold and had clearly been left standing not under hot lights and all three plates of food were cold, she made the same argument when she brought the fresh food. She did take 2 steak off the bill and gave us our coffee and three mint teas as complimentary But that does not really compensate for a disappointing meal and poor customer service. Not the usual standard of food or service we have come to know and enjoy.

Excellent service, very helpful waitress. Reasonably priced menu...good range of dishes......................pork good, nice Crottin as a starter. Aware of Barbican start at 7pm..... Don't force me to write more than I want to !

Again last night we were treated to good food and service at Cote. It’s consistently a good place to go with friends. Great value compared to other restaurants.

Table booked for a post Theatre meal , great atmosphere a real buzz to the place. The only downside was the inability of the serving staff to deliver something other than exactly what is on the menu. My wife ordered the salmon as a main with two additional requests, sauce on the side and served on a plate not in a bowl, mains arrived and her salmon had the sauce over the fish and was served in a bowl, we told the waitress who rectified it quickly and blamed the kitchen for not following her order which she obviously had forgotten about as she took it. Perhaps not a great problem but the reality was myself and our guest had to delay eating our mains whilst my wife’s main was recooked /replaced which resulted in our mains being slightly cold when we eventually ate them, irritating and in my view unneccessary We use various Cote restaurants in central London and consistency is good but I must say our food seemed below the usual standard this time, my main , Poulet Grill was absolutely smothered in the Mushroom sauce and the potatoes underneath had hardly been cooked, very soapy and bland, my wife’s Frits with her salmon were very / overly salted, not worth sending back as this would have delayed our mains even further. Minor things but enough to taint the meal

Lovely tuna salad nicoise and steak fries, that came with a free bottle of Sauvignon Blanc. The service was fast, the food arrived soon after ordering and tasted delicious. Highly recommended.

We booked for a meal before an event at the Barbican. The food was lovely. We left plenty of time so as not to feel rushed however we did feel rushed and my friend who cannot eat quickly was feeling under pressure. This is not to say the staff were not nice they were efficient and friendly but came to the table several times and took things away. eg used glasses/condiments. This is often the case in the city but sis not help to make us feel relaxed and enjoy the experience. I have eaten at several Cote Brasseries in places across the country and overall really enjoyed them. This was not my best experience but not awful either.

Service was slow and not particularly friendly, food was poorly cooked and main course lukewarm. Waiter couldn't answer basic questions about food which is worrying considering the need for clear and unambiguous allergen advice.

As always a delicious meal with attentive efficient service and in a spacious, light and pleasant setting. The pre-theatre menu is very good value. Would always recommend.

Excellent food and experience , I will be back for more celebrations!!!

As usual in the branch we had an excellent dining experience. The duck special was superb, tender, tasty with appropriate vegetable accompaniment. The service - our waitress was Sara - was faultless.

The service was so much better today, in comparison with a previous visit in November 2018 with the same group of people - table of 6 when we waited over 1.5 hours from having our starter to eating our main course. The food was excellent and our waitress was very efficient. All in all a very good experience.