Côte - St Martin's Lane

The decor was back to it's usual high standard the tables were sufficiently far apart for social distancing and the staff were their usual pleasant and helpful selves. The food was again, as usual, excellent and our meal was most enjoyable. The sadness was the emptiness brought about by the covid regulations. We are used to seeing the restaurant full and busy at 6.00 on Sunday evenings, when we normally visit. We very much hope you will be able to make the limited seating work and survive this dreadful situation and wish you every success. The musak did get a bit loud and intrusive at times.

Very good thank you.excellent service.would come back another time ta

Never had such wonderful service in my life. Brilliant staff and food was so tasty and priced cheap for london!

Cote are doing a great job to keep up the high standards that they set in the past. Thank you for a lovely lunch.

Brilliant service, attentive and friendly. Excellent food served attractively and well. Superb place!

Over the moon to be able to have lunch at St Martin’s Lane after six months waiting. We got the warmest welcome, observed thoughtful and careful safety procedures and are the most delicious food for a most affordable price. Easily the best restaurant with the best team. We’d never go anywhere else!

A very lovely night out we have there. it is a great restaurant with good service

Great food and lovely service. Really hope they open again soon

Pre-Theater set menu. You really can not get better anywhere else.

Cote is a consistent deliverer. We enjoyed our meal. Good service

A great time had by all with great food and attentive service !!

Good food and service. Disappointed to be in basement, despite having reserved a table....

The food was excellent, well done! And all at a good price, well done to Cote!

Very pleasant early evening atmosphere... food was lovely but I get the feeling the portions are getting smaller?

We visited lunchtime for pre theatre meal. It was very busy but service was quick and excellent. Food was very tasty and good value. Would definately visit again. Highly recommended.

An overall good experience. The salmon was a little overcooked and the potatoes were undercooked. The restaurant has a good atmosphere although it can be noisy. Service was good.

The food was good as usual and the service was fine to start. However, as the restaurant filled - overfilled - it became difficult to get service (took ages to get the bill) and the level of noise was almost unbearable - had to shout to speak to my companion across the table. Won't be going to this particular Cote again.

Fantastic food, a separate menu for vegans, which made the vegan in our party happy, friendly service, elegant surroundings, reasonable prices. A good booking system and no problem when we turned up with an extra person. My only problem was that it's one of countless restaurants in the capital with no carpet or anything to mute the sound of a large number of people talking in a crowded space. This means, people with hearing difficulties and even those who hear ok but (like me) are well past retirement age, have trouble hearing the waiting staff or our own family at the table. Not relaxing to have to shout and ask everyone to repeat things.

Went for a 12 midday early Sunday lunch before football which started at 2;05. We both had two courses and a shared ice cream desert. It was all first class food, courteous and prompt service and good value for money. We left at 1:10 with plenty of time to get to our seats at the Emirates. Well done every one.

We have been a few times to this restaurant and have always had wonderful service, the staff are always very pleasant and helpful. As for the food, there were 6 of us and we all throughly enjoyed our meal. We will definitely book the restaurant again.

Missed 2 starters even tho we checked the order Insisted it wasn’t his fault again we had checked the order as it was taken so he defiantly knew we wanted them Very slow service Rude attitude Staff kissing and touching in other in the bar area as preping drinks Asked for fresh cream.... revived creme frechie... pointed this out was told oh we don’t do fresh cream just double cream!!!! And that from the manager surely they should know double cream is fresh cream!!!! Very disappointed we eat at Cote a lot in Leeds, Manchester, Covent Garden to name a few never at St Martins lane and will not be back

The staff were welcoming and cheerful. Service was efficient but relaxed. The boeuf bourguignon was exquisite and the desserts all looked tempting. Decided on the crème brûlée and didn't regret it. Nice clean toilets too!

As ever, the serving staff were efficeint and courteous. However, both the starter (mine and my wife's) were tepid at best and my wife's main course was cold.

Service good but my partner was very unimpressed with his main course. He ordered the lamb rump which was nearly £16 and consisted of only 2 very small pieces of lamb (1.5inches roun) and not that many vegetables to accompany it. We ate at 6pm but had to purchase additional food for him from a fast food company as he was hungry at 9.30pm. This disappointed me as it was my suggestion and I have always had good experiences of Côte Brasserie in the past.

Absolutely delicious lunch, with good service. Thank you! My friend started with goats cheese salad whilst I had asparagus. Then we both ate sea bream with fennel and potatoes puree plus side dishes of salad and green beans.

Arrived for the booking @ 8. Ordered 4 bottled beers, they were warm, mentioned it to the waitress, who said they had been busy. Wasn’t apologetic, but did get us an ice bucket to cool them off. We should of been pre-warned, not served the bottles and hope we don’t notice it !

All the staff were really friendly even with the theatre rush going on. The meal was of your usual high standard. Our waitress Sylvia was a good advert for Cote.

Very good as always! Really enjoyed my blood orange martini on the house, as did my friends, 1 of whom was also celebrating her birthday. Lovely food too - the duck confit is becoming a new personal favourite :)

Good value and reasonable, a bit noisy and long wait for service though. Cote Soho better

We eat at Cote quite regularly and are never disappointed in the food, which is excellent value, good quality and well-cooked, or the staff, who are invariably polite and efficient. The branch in St Martin's Lane is a bit noisy and crowded, the downside of its popularity, and we were extremely put out to be turned away at Christmas because we hadn't reserved a table. So booking is essential - we won't make that mistake again.

We are a regular customer of Cote Sevenoaks, but meet up for reunions etc at Cote St Martin's Lane where we are guaranteed to same hospitality and dining experience.....good food, good wine and most of all excellent efficient, friendly and professional service. Thank you for a lovely day out in town today ! Lyn

Excellent food as ever, and very attentive service, with a good sense of humour. A couple of glasses of first-class merlot added to the enjoyment. Highly recommended.

I have eaten at Cote’s many times and it has never let me down., Friendly efficient staff, excellent food.. today was a Birthday and girl friend catch up.. had free Kir Royale drinks and a scummy Birthday dessert plus ice cream with a candle.. brought out by singing staff.. fabulous..

I eat at St Martin's Lane quite often. The staff are always friendly and efficient - Ivette who waited on us today deserves special commendation. Good food. Good value.

Excellent food and good service. Although it was busy service was swift and very good

Excellent service! Waitress was incredibly friendly and attentive. Food was well executed and taste amazing! Coffee was also very pleasant, loved the fact it was served in a glass mug. Slight draft from the air vents which made us feel a bit chilly but the customers next to us also found this and the waitress kindly put the heating on for them! Aside from this it was a lovely experience and i think sitting elsewhere in the restaurant would have made for a much more pleasurable experience. Would definitely be going again!

Our booking was for 5.30 pm, we arrived 15 minutes early. Although very busy, no problem, we were shown straight to our seats. The food, service and ambiance was excellent.

Good food at a reasonable price. What made it was the staff. Really friendly and efficient and clearly working well together as a team. A great experience.

Great food from the set menu ahead of a nearby concert, and even better service from a lovely lady. Always a pleasure to eat at Cote St Martin's Lane!

A wonderful lunch on a Friday stunningly good service including the singing of Happy Birthday with my two guests in Polish with two waitresses along with a cake and candle. We moved tables had food allergies all accommodated with equanimity. To marks all round.

A great welcome and experience. Thank you. We will be back

I use this chain a lot and last night our steak was very disappointing :( it's the first time we've had guests with us that didn't enjoy their mains, steak was gristle and quite tough (Very unusual for one) maybe they were having an off night! Waitress did give our friend an extra scoop of ice cream but wasn't quite the same

It was extremely busy and people's orders were getting forgotten and so they had to leave without eating otherwise they would have been late for the theatre. They forgot our drinks and deserts. We were disappointed as it wasn't up to cotes usual high standards and we won't be returning to this restaurant.

Fantastic choice for pre theatre. 2 fix price menus plus a la Carte. Great selection of dishes and speedy, efficient service. We had a lovely evening.

I booked an upstairs table for lunch ages ago but we were delayed (by the trains) by 15 minutes. The seating guy said he’d let our table go because we hadn’t rung (fair enough) but instead he’d seat us downstairs. If this is offered to you DON’T GO! We were seated in a gloomy cramped windowless cellar with less than chirpy staff. It was horrid. I ordered the ‘risotto vert’ If you order risotto & it comes out within 5 minutes....well, if you can cook you know the answer. It was a green tasteless bowl of sludge. I took 2 mouthfuls & called the waitress. She looked at the bowl & said “I’ll show it to the chef.” As the chef had sent it from the kitchen a few minutes earlier I’d love to know his response! He would have known it was dreadful! My husbands salmon & ragu was fine, I ate some of his, left my wine & LEFT the establishment within 15 minutes of arriving - how dreadful is that?!! As we walked out there were tables for two available. If a chef can’t make a decent risotto - go elsewhere. Cote - really dreadful experience, you need to up your game. Please do show my review.

We arrived early - almost 15 minutes early - and they couldn't have been more helpful. Although the restaurant was packed, the charming Front of House chap found us alternative table to the one they had allocated as this was just finishing up. So we were sat down, menus presented, drinks offered in seconds. The waitress couldn't have been more charming although she said we could not have our free aperitif which you had e-mailed me about, unless we ordered from the Mains menu; which in fact we ended up doing! But by then we each had a glass of fizz in hand and were happy. The food was just what we wanted for lunch and served extremely efficiently without making us feel hurried at all. A lovely experience with delightful staff. Well done you never fail us. I can't give you five stars for the atmosphere as it was very noisy when we arrived, although it got better as it emptied out at 1.45 for the matinee folk.

Too Cramped, Noisy & Cold with faulty Air Conditioning, Food was seriously crap and was returned. The starters were mass produced and I could have got better quality from Aldi Stores

Amazing food and the service was perfect! Would definitely recommend eating here!

Great choice of food and good quality at reasonable prices. Although the restaurant was very busy at the time we visited, the service was professional and food was excellent. We will definitely visit again soon!

Lovely meal offering good quality and superb value. We were served by an excellent, professional team who provided great customer service during an extremely busy pre-theatre sitting. Wonderful both to experience and observe! Many thanks.