La Tratoria & Cafe - (Near , london)

3 /5 deleiraw: Order from this place with an open mind. I ordered a seafood boil for one person for £30, which is a fairly good price considering its seafood, however you definitely cannot compare it to the bigger seafood restaurants in London. Pros: Good portion of seafood for £30 (excuse the image it was taken for my friend), however you can definitely make this at home for cheaper if you shop at Iceland Cons: The sauce was very bland. It definitely needed more seasoning and I definitely had high expectations despite the price. On deliveroo, it says that theres lobster in this seafood boil. Again, for this price I wasnt expecting a whole lobster or even lobster tail. However, the lobsters I received were about the size of my pinky (not exaggerating, you can see one in the top left corner), so there was almost no meat inside (close to none), they could at least use lobster claws which are cheaper and maybe up the price a little bit, and with that theyd up the quality too. The only pieces that taste reasonable are the king prawns and the octopus and that could mainly be because of the added texture. Please get rid of the squid rings though, they taste very cheap (fairly so, but they could invest in more high quality products instead) Last but not least, please use better packaging for your food. Meanwhile the actual boil was in adequate packaging and placed straight in a bag, the pickle salad came in a very soggy cardboard box, and there wasnt a lot of variety in the salad either (despite advertising it as a salad with a variety of pickled vegetables) If you dont mind my points above, you can definitely order from here if you want seafood boil on a budget, as its not the worst Ive had either

5 /5 Washington William: Very good place, huge portions and tasty food!! Waiter very polite too. Highly recommend.

5 /5 Radion Liviu: Everything was delicious and very nice plated.The service was quick and the waiters very polite.I will gladly return every time I have the chance.

1 /5 Elle Ward: I visited last weekend (2/6/2024) and the service was abysmal. Cold and unfriendly.. I have never known service like it. Food was cold, drinks expensive yet cheap products used , dirty bathrooms, and to top it off.. disgusting service. Would rather have 3 tap water courses than visit here again, Thanks for absolutely nothing.

1 /5 Jacob Boudakian: I use to give my custom to this restaurant until the owner Elena started getting very personal and offensive towards me. I gave her restaurant a break and made the mistake of returning. She cunningly convinced me to book a table for Christmas dinner at the cost of £200 and I agreed. She wanted the whole £200 upfront in cash not even a deposit but all of it which to me seemed Suspect already but I wanted to go somewhere for the day as I had no one to spend it with due to personal circumstances. I get told a week after paying that the events been cancelled as other guest cancelled their bookings so I had to come in to collect my money. I did go in person but Elena only gave me half of my money back and told me her bank wouldn’t give her more as she has a business account and that was her limit so I had to go another day to get the rest. I visited 3 more times to be fobbed off with excuses that she’s busy her sons got chicken pox and to wait for my money that I gave her in good faith. My cousin had to get involved with police action as she was stealing, disrespecting me and bluntly delaying paying me back. Today I went to talk to some people that remembered me from her restaurant outside and I was on the public footpath where Elena hostile and aggressive stormed out towards me saying if you stand outside my restaurant again that she would call the police on me even though I’m on a public footpath and not even on her premises. The woman lacks customer service skills, has poor communication skills and is only interested in taking your money but be careful she is crafty and extremely rude. Elena hasn’t been open for that long so she should take a look at her attitude towards her customers as she’s managed to offend me in a short period of knowing her and needs to humble herself as she is pretentious and arrogant. I don’t want to step foot in her premises ever again.