Louise

Review of Ivy Oxford

My son took me for brunch, where we had a lovely e...

My son took me for brunch, where we had a lovely experience. I told my work colleagues about how good it was and eleven of us decided that we would all go out for brunch. When I tried to book this I was told they could only accommodate that many of us in the private dining room as the largest tables in the main restaurant only seat eight. The private dining room has a separate set menu and that menu didn t have what we wanted on it, so I said we were happy to have two or more tables near to each other in the main restaurant instead. I was told that this was not possible as they don t allocate tables, so we could have been seated in completely different areas of the restaurant. Basically, we could sit together in the private dining room and eat from an expensive set menu without the food we want on it, or eat from the main menu and likely be seated in different parts of the restaurant. I can only imagine that it must be a very successful restaurant to be able to turn down eleven paying customers.