Côte Esher

We love dining at Esher Cote. Great food and wine, good service, as always.

I LOVE Cote. Everything is right about it and that’s why I chose to have a birthday meal there. However something interesting happened over desert. I rather fancied the cheese platter which I have had a few times before, so duly ordered it. However when it arrived this was the conversation that ensued with the lovely waitress; Us - nice selection of cheeses, aren’t there usually some crackers or biscuits to accompany it? Waitress - No, it’s just cheese Us - that’s a bit weird, loads of cheese on its own and nothing to eat it with? Waitress - That’s how the french have it Us - but seriously, nothing to eat cheese with? I’ve had this desert in other Cote’s and I’m sure it comes with some kind of cracker? Waitress - No, definitely just Cheese, I’ll check with the manager. Us - this is crazy, JUST cheese on its own and no accompaniment?? Waitress - yeah lots of people have said the same thing Us - and???? So you see, we are a little perplexed. Perhaps someone from head office could let me know if we were being crazy or if that is the norm nowaday?

We love cote, especially Esher One waitress in particular who has been there a while now is great and her level of service is fantastic (wish I knew her name!)

I am finding more and more when I visit the Cote venues that there is a consistency with quality of service and food and ambiance. Very kind and well trained staff and front of house management. Food reminds me of the way Michelin started restaurants were in France 25 years ago but without the fussy attitude. Well done and keep this standards up!

Excellent service, delicious food and wine. We asked for a quiet table and it was. Such a change from the ghastly noise levels e perienxed in all popular restaurants. I love Cote it never disappoints.

Good food and the waiter was very pleasant and chatty making it feel very comfortable evening for us all. Thanks again Cotes Esher for a lovely birthday meal.

The staff are great, very attentive. I think the food is okay. It does lack a little depth. For example, I had the fish stew and was pleasant but not something you couldn't make at home - my scale of what you would expect. Lamb was okay but not seared. All the things that take time to do and give the extra flavour. It is a great family restaurant and caters for everyone really.

We had a very enjoyable meal at Cote. We really appreciated the complimentary Bellini’s in celebration of our anniversary. The food was really lovely - we especially enjoyed our main courses - and well priced. The service was fantastic and we did not feel rushed at all. The staff were very conscientious and polite. Overall we had a really great time! Thank you.

As always, another lovely evening at Côte Brasserie Esher. The food is always reliable & it’s a great place to go for breakfast, lunch or supper. Thanks to Chris and the team for looking after us so well again!

Great waiter named Aidan Very attentive. Best waiter so far over the years!! Pls cook green beans al dente. Only criticism an extra bottle of wine added to the bill but this was quickly rectified

Everything it was amazing, Cristobal he was wonderful. We recommend this place We enjoyed it a lot there. The prawns they were really good .

A very meal discreetly served and cooked beautifully. My friends enjoyed their steak and lamb. Lovely vegetables.

The food was very acceptable - the service excellent. The branch loses a mark, though, because it was over noisy. But I don’t know what can be done about that apart from gagging diners!

This is not the first time we have been here, but it was not the best meal or service. We both had the duck from the mother's Day menu. One looked fresh and juicy and the other was over cooked and dry. The waiter did not seem very interested in his job and was coughing and sneezing throughout the service. Not ideal with food around. We will not be put off by this one bad experience,but if it happens again?

Excellent! Great service, good value for money. Well definitely go again. Had the minute steak and chips with garlic butter I recommend it for a quick meal.

Firstly I have loved Cote asI have always considered it good value for money and great food. Wasn’t the best experience last night. It was my birthday and am on crutches so messaged the restaurant a week prior requesting a table in the window and also rang the day before to confirm. We got there and this didn’t happen. We had our menus and eventually had to ask for my two birthday offer Kir Royals..These Normally these arrive as your booking site alerts the bar I believe. We complained to the manager about the table and he apologised and offered us a free bottle of wine,which was Vernice of him.I ordered Breton Fishstew which arrived with hardly any sauce so I sent it back. My husband ordered a spinach side and it arrived in a tiny dish and contained two spoonfuls. This cost £3.95 and frankly was an insult. I know times are hard but I could have bought two bags of spinach for this amount of money. Crazy to reduce the size of your side dishes. Further to this when are you going to change your menu. I hadn’t been for a while due to health issues and apart from a special it was the same as last year. Come on Cote you can do better. If Cafe Rouge can change their menu so can you. Heather Howell

Great service and fantastic staff. Food was excellent and recommended

Best meal out for ages. Delicious and perfectly cooked. Pleasant and friendly staff.

Such great food and truly amazing service. This is a perfect place for a lovely, lazy birthday lunch. We will be coming back again. Also, gluten and dairy free diners taken care of extremely well.

It was an excellent meal, with lovely service and delicious food!

Consistently nice. Girls night out and we all enjoyed our meal and thought the service was good.

The service was awful, waitress very pleasant but we had no plates, they served the wrong thing - food was very average. Overpriced for what it was. We won’t be going back.

Excellent food, beautifully prepared and served. The set menu offers very good value and is changed frequently so always a pleasant surprise. The restaurant has a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere.

Normally a good experience. But this time (later than usual) the food was not-too-we’ll cooked. My own haddock wrapped in bacon was over-cooked, while a starter of asparagus was under-cooked. Service was it’s usual good standard, so o think it was a one-off.

Great service, great food and reasonably priced with a relaxing atmosphere for a Sunday...

Consistent and reliable venue. Good food and great value. The variation between different branches of this chain never fails to amaze.

We came to Cote for a family lunch to celebrate my Daughters 18th birthday........ The service was very attentive, prompt, there were staff insight at all times. The service timings were spot on, they made a special fuss of the birthday girl... overall we all had the best time and this is partly due to the service, food and staff ! so thank you all at Cote... Angela Brocklesby

The food was good but the service was extremely slow. So slow that while we were waiting for our starters we asked for some bread and olives to tie us over. The waitress brought the bread but never brought the olives which did not help the coeliacs in our group.

A pleasant restaurant with nice staff. I found the food disappointing in comparison with visits to other branches. A shame because Cote is usually completely reliable.\

Food and service were excellent, however we were seated right next to the area where the staff prepare the hot drinks etc. and the noise was very loud at times especially when they were re-stocking the crockery. Will ask to be seated elsewhere in future.

Thank you for a wonderful evening. You made me feel very special for my birthday celebrations. Much appreciated the Complemetary bottle of fizz and we will be back very soon.

Excellent food and excellent service Noise levels were too high but nothing unusual in most restaurants. Little bit slow between courses but not in a hurry so no concern.

As always an excellent meal with friendly and professional service at a reasonable price

Very good as usual and the food,drink and service was spot on.

We have been going to Cote Esher for years - we think of it as our 'regular' place - must go at least once a month since it opened. My wife's special delight is to finish the meal with your Creme Brulee - how sad when we went last night the restaurant had run out !!!!

The restaurant suddenly became very busy and the staff were a bit overwhelmed. However the food was good and we will certainly go back again probably next week as I think that this was a one off.

Great lunch as usual, great gluten free choices. The other clientele was quite noisy for some of our group but a good time was had by all.

Great food, great service! Beautiful set up will defo come back

As on previous occasions, a very nice meal with good service. The Cote Brasserie chain is always reliable, wherever they are and we have been to many.

Very good food and excellent, friendly service. I have always liked your restaurant and look forward to my next visit there.

Our waiter was fantastic. We are regulars to the chain and live the food service, however there was clearly something different in food quality with this experience. Particularly the celeriac mash I was meant to have with the set steak was in fact potato mash. That’s ideal for me, except that it was extroadinarily bad, cold, lumpy, pre-cooked, heated up mash! Really goes against your usual quality and reputation. The couple next to us had the same thing. On a personal taste point, we went to cote because we love what you normally do, we didn’t like the set menu which we found restricting. Petals on the napkin was a nice touch though.

Overall the meal was good but restaurant busy and service a little slow. Quite surprisingly advised , after taking the order, that garlic bread was not available. Had to suffice with plain bread .

We had a wonderful meal celebrating a 30th Birthday and Mother’s Day. Food was delicious, Service great. A memorable evening. Thank you to Cote team.

Brilliant family brunch with excellent and attentive service as usual! We always feel looked after and the waitress and waiters look after our every need. Highly recommended.

This was a very satisfying experience with the Valantine’s Day menu that had been rolled over being a welcome surprise. The staff were charming and we went home happy.

Delicious rhubarb martini to start. As always great food and wonderful staff. We have never had a bad experience here.

One of the worst dining experiences I had in a long time. This Cote restaurant used to be very good and our go to brunch choice. Having sat there for the best part of 20 minutes without anyone taking our order (it was half full), you agreed to take my wife's choice from the brunch menu. The waiter returned 10 minutes later to say if I wanted brunch, I couldn't have poached eggs with my egg royale but it would need to be scrambled or fried. I questioned this as you've either got eggs or not! They then said the kitchen wasn't pleased about the doing a brunch order after 1 and we had to point out if we'd been served in a timely manner it wouldn't have been a problem. We then waited an hour for our food. Everyone else was coming and going having been served and eaten. After chasing twice, our food finally arrived. My duck main was cold, some of it overcooked and my wife's eggs were like hard boiled eggs with the salmon slices hard at the side as they'd obviously been out of the fridge for a while. An absolute disgrace. Pull your socks up.

First class service with usual high standard of cuisine. One of the best restaurant group of its type. Use their chain regularly and always of a high standard.

Lindsay our server was fantastic really made the evening, fun to talk to and excellent service. The food for me was a bit salty, I had the risotto and I could crunch the Malden sea salt flakes in each bite which I would have preferred not to but otherwise the food is good.

A thoroughly enjoyable evening. Thank you to our MD who was most helpful. I have an injured foot but he made sure I was comfortable.