The Wolseley Review

We had a business dinner here with guests. The building is imposing, like a 1930s US bank, and has a long history of changing hands. Apparently this is the place to be seen, if you are into that sort of thing.

The cocktails were very well prepared and the food cooked to perfection. For the price paid, 4 stars is about right.

Service was average. There was a certain waiter that came up the stairs, dumped the plates to the wrong guest and left. Maybe these tables are more taxing to the server, but at least pretend you don t hate serving us so much. It leaves a bitter taste to the mouth. Not what you would expect from a restaurant of this fame.

Anyway, the guests were total legends so I will return and next time insist on a ground floor table.

Still retains that magical quality of superb service in truly historic surrounds. The place to chill for breakfast.

A very noisy and bustling place, lots of atmosphere, been before with friends. A bit disappointed with food this time.

Great snack, my favorite: Korean sushi! We recommend! I can only agree with Christina F., she has described everything exactly as it is.

A London favourite and supposedly also that of the famous Heston Blumenthal - close to the Ritz is the classic Wolseley, perfect for a comforting breakfast before work or before a day in the park. I tried the small pastry basket and poached egg on fish cake, a friend had the french toast.. overall it was great ! I only wish I had gotten the hot chocolate too because I have read good things about that. More eccentric options include Haggis with fried duck eggs and devilled lamb kidneys as well as the very classy caviar omelette. A word of advice: do book a head :)

10days in Uk and had 10days English breakfast. Wolseley is the best!

Good breakfast, though the place was extremely busy and the restaurat layout feels very jumbled. We sat in the saloon, which is for walk-ins with no reservation. It's probably nicer there than the main room. Service was pleasant but a bit slow.

One of the best places for breakfast in London, with authentic Canadian maple syrup. Been here a few times and always good.

Great atmosphere, relaxing and not too pretentious. Great food and reasonable prices for quality.

Afternoon tea! They didn't even kick me out for wearing t shirt, shorts, and flipflops.

Very accommodating staff,lovely surroundings and great food.

After a hiatus of spanning a number of years it was great to return. Very warm welcome, attentive service and excelled food. Will be back more often!

Amazing food, wonderful service, fabulous experience and good value!

Quintessential London. Used to be the Wolseley car showroom.

Good until dessert did not turn up, asked again, still did not arrive. Decided not to pursue it. Drinking tea and told we had stayed over two hours (by five minutes). We were asked to leave because they had a queue waiting for a table. The bill arrived and we were charged for dessert. Realised to late that the service charge was also included. Dessert taken off the bill but no apology. All a rather poor.

Friendly, tasty and well eaten
Yogurt taste
I do n t know if the other is tasty or not
They ate yogurt fruit food, two juices, and two teas of coffee.

Always worth a visit. Great food, nice wine and plenty of celebrity spotting opportunities.

Where else can you get fired haggis and duck eggs for breakfast? Lovely surroundings and pleasant staff.

Tea at The Wolseley is a very special, unique experience that lets you have a taste of what life was like in Vienna in the Twenties - delicious pastries and an exquisite array of teas in sumptous surroundings and a calm, peaceful ambience. Couple that with the excellent service and you have a once in a lifetime treat.

Rich and typical breakfast. Nice atmosphere but a little noisy. Neat decoration. Impeccable service

Delicious tea, the champagne is fabulous, and the setting was stunning. We ran into some issues at the end with service which is why I'm giving it 4 stars.

Nice atmosphere, can have cream tea in the front areas

Excellent food and feeling. Staff forgot our wine but solved it swiftly enough before dinner.

I went there three times in my four say break london....i ordered salad, similar to this one.... it tasted great. Their coffee and scones were excellent...

I ve been coming here for over ten years and it s always a joy to behold. The atmosphere feels like you are deep in the cultural mechanics of London, where all is exposed to view, like a watch with a glass back seamlessly & effortlessly waiters pirouette around you, serving table after table of satisfied clientelle...

I took my mother here for Lunch while we were Christmas Shopping. We hadn t booked so we were taking a chance to get a table. From the beginning the welcome was warm and friendly and gracious.
As they didn t have a table ready immediately we were advised to wait at the bar and have some drinks which we did happily. The bar, as with the entire building is beautifully designed and full of charming details, lots of marble, grand proportions, wonderful staff and a pleasant place to loiter.
We were given a table quite quickly in the front parlour and ordered mussels and fries for our lunch. Accompanied by a few glasses of the house white which was very good. The food and wine was excellent throughout and not as expensive as we had anticipated.
All the way through our visit the service was impeccable and my mother was made to feel very pampered and special. There is an art to this kind of service that not many places achieve and it will always be a fond memory for her. Next time I will bring her for dinner and try some more of the amazing menu which has some great classic dishes with a strong range of fish choices which I love. Can t wait to go back!

An extremely lovely and very nice place to have a meal. Food was superb and cannot fault it. Would certainly return.

Great traditional ambiance. Unimpressive food. Went for the classic English breakfast but the black pudding was disappointing.

Oh man. Go for the eggs Benedict for breakfast . And make it large!

Lovely afternoon tea, friendly staff. Good and safe Covid set-up!

Tasty simple food, but it's a very big place so gets very busy and noisy.

Best dinner and service I had in London! When I called one evening to see if I could make a dinner reservation for two, the gentleman said to just please come in and ask for James. Upon arrival my husband and I were shown instantly to a lovely table on the main floor. We each had a fish dish, sea trout and fillet of sole, both of which were wonderfully prepared! It seemed like the entire staff waited on us as they close attention to any possible thing we might need or want. Cannot wait to return for another memorable dining experience.

Fabulous food..very attentive staff.
A wonderful birthday treat for my friend.

Good afternoon tea for a fair price. The service was very good. However it's a very busy restaurant than can get noisy, not ideal for relaxing.

There is always a visit to The Wolseley when I'm in London. Classical Afternoon Tea of the highest class.

The bar is quite good, but restaurant is totally different. Lousy experience in the restaurant. Seems it does not welcome one person to have meal, 1 ppl takes the same table as 2ppl, but i've waited in bar and see 4 ~ 5 couples get table even those ppl come after me. And the service is also terrible, not only one staff has bad attitude, i do not know it's because i went alone or i'm an Asian (or both?). BTW, the food is not good, too salty, but at least better than their service.
1 star is for the bar, otherwise the restaurant even not worth any star.
A person wish to dine at half past two holidays, no need to wait for an appointment can be understood, but a man and two are occupied by people dining table, a double forty-five not understand why the group can go in earlier than my meal, but waiting in the bar is also good, the only place the whole meal laudable only bar.
Start with a bit of attitude staff very friendly and good service, but serving the people and the table service is a very happy holiday to go to work it? Came up with a dish almost fell, and fell on top of chicken liver decorated eggs and green onions are the late fall. Finished eating daze ten minutes no one to talk to me about the next two tables have service personnel greetings to ask how the meal today, up and down one yet, just before I finished dish also requires taking away the empty plate, this restaurant in the end is a person or unfriendly to dine alone to dine Asian unfriendly?
Appetizer chopped liver itself tastes ok but not too bright, next to the pickles are fresh, but difficult to eat biscuits, stale little bit smelly. Entrees kedgeree with poached egg salty, super salty, have drank a bottle of sparkling water + tonic water bottle.
Whole meal took 50 pounds to be racial discrimination + eat unpalatable food, 50 pounds in London, there are many good choices, do not come here.

Absolutely beautiful, wonderful selection of sandwiches and afternoon tea, wide selection of teas and service was perfect.

Cold food that when taken away was bought back in the same state. Then had to wait for the sides. By the time they arrived the steak was near enough eaten. Very dissapointed and would not recommend for that reason. Poor service to add.

I visited the store at 13:00 on weekdays without making a reservation, but I waited for about 25 minutes because it was quite busy despite the weekdays. Even if I waited inside, I could go back to the shop 25 minutes after going out, so I could walk around Green Park and kill time, so the waiting time was not a pain.

I went with two girls, but the main menu was changed daily, small salad, small egg benedict.

The accounting is about 4,000 yen per person, and I think that this price is unavoidable due to the quality of the land and the dishes, but it was a bit higher than I imagined, so I decided to give it 4 stars. The staff were very friendly and professional. The luxury lunch after a long time was delicious.

Great salads and soups. Thursday's special Shepherd's Pie a must!

Typical English food, drinks and atmosphere. Has the look of high society and you are expected to be dressed. Definitely recommended for a breakfast or lunch.

It was a beautiful building without being stuffy with pretentiousness. If I lived here I'd go back, especially if it were a special occasion.

Went to the Wolseley the first weekend out of lockdown to celebrate my friends 30th birthday and had such a lovely time. Our waiter Georgi was amazing, he was so attentive, service was really quick and the food was just amazing. The flat iron steak and fries and gem lettuce were amazing value for money and so well seasoned. Lovely red wine too - would love to come again, thanks a lot Georgi!

Horrible seriously... My partener received the food before me and when my food arrived it was under cooked.The worst english breakfast and the smell inside... Not nice at all.
Maybe my expectations were too high.

Hi,
Normally I don't do this, but I have to say that my experience with the Wolseley has been a disaster.
I made a reservation by phone , 5 days earlier to travel to UK, I ama a PR,and my clients were expecting to have some food experience around those fine dine restaurants in London.
Well, after someone from the Wolseley reception was confirmed my reservation for Saturday late afternoon at 06:30, taking my email, phone number , and I was more than convinced to have done my job as usual, I did recieved the big surprise and my professional way to behave when I work , has been compromised as when came the day of dinner, as usual I do, I did call the restaurant above to confirm and to inform that we were ready to start our journey from the hotel, to make sure that my clients woul never complain about any incompetence.
But...there is a big BUT:from the reception of the Wolseley , someone on rush,cold, and for me, no professional at all, was telling to me that there wasn't a table in the name I made the reservation, no mail, no phone numer which I gave to a female receptionist 5 days before.He didn't even try to arrange a new table in another restaurant of the company, or offer to me a chance to resolve the problem ..No way!! he was so indifferent and I was so worried because my clients..
Thank's GOd, I am a kind of person , who never loose the control, and because I did understand straight away the heavy of the situation, the Wolseley no care at all, I made a new phone call to another fine dine restaurant , and they were busy too, but instead to wash their hands, they offer to me to dine in another place , they booked the table, and even if the turn on was after 1 hour and half, I was save, my clients happy, dinner went true.
Now, what's the piont?
Dear Wolseley , you could be the best place bla bla bla.... but for me , your mistake, because was your fault, has been like you don't really care about customers, at this stage I have to think this, I am so sorry to say that, but for me, has been the worst experience in my professional life, and the most I?m still feeling sorry, is that the receptionist behaviour, was amazed at the indifference of the reception. I 'm so sorry that I don't remember the first name of the lady who tooks the reservation by phone, but I don't have any problem to show that I actually made that call because I can get the printouts of the telephone companywhich could prove that what I say it's true.
Anyway, as I Pr I run the risk of compromising my position with regard to customer, and if not been for the alertness of the other restaurant,I would have lost the professional respect of my clients.I don't add more, but does not brin any customer ever at Wolseley.

Very good.
Not too expensive
Quite full
Good food in peaceful environment.
Will go there again

Went for breakfast, the setting is grand, however, the tables are small and Full English breakfast a little underwhelming.

Perfect place for an afternoon tea
Attentive service
English pleasure to treat yourself

Third visit, first time for lunch. Once again, a lovely experience with wonderful service and food. Still a great place for a special occasion, or just for when you want to feel a little fancy.

Good food and normal service. They old us to wait 30 minutes and were much more. Some people arriving later than us were seated before!!
El sitio es bonito y el portero de fuera el mas amabke de todos!

First visit after COVID 19 lockdown and I cannot fault this place. Absolutely amazing customer service from start to finish the staff really go the extra mile for you and have every time we have visited. Food is unbelievable we had the lobster, crab starter & steak. Ambience and decor is gorgeous, one of a kind.

Service was very Slow. It's really hard to get the attention of any waiter. It took us 10 minutes to find a waiter to take the order, another 10 minutes to get the bill after we've ordered it. Waiter had a bad attitude as well. The restaurant was over staffed and waiters decided to socialize with themselves rather than serve the guests.

Great breakfast. However, if you are going there for a birthday there is a no cake policy.

The atmosphere is really good, but the taste of pancake is just that

Great food and atmosphere as always however the staff on the last two visits, both on a Saturday, have made us feel very rushed

My favourite London restaurant. Great buzz and lovely food. Been coming for years and never disappoints.

Very nice place, exellent service and delicious food.

Business as usual in this London institution - excellent all day menu, great surroundings and attentive service - best place to get over lock down blues - and people queuing to get in!

Great place and atmosphere, a restaurant worth a try in London!

wonderful place, this place looks amazing, this place also has that old London look to it, you will love this place

I can't say anything bad about the staff, they were really kind and professional, but... I Ordered a Flat Iron Steak. The meat was inedible, the fries could have been from McDonalds, and the salad just a bunch of lettuce leaves in a dish. Plus a OK roasted chicken and a single glass of wine and water, the bill was outrageous.

Aaaaahhhhh, Old London Teller Halls. Now that everybody's moved to FirstDirect for more than a generation, most of them have become restaurants, this one more successfully than others. The service is impeccable, at early breakfast as much as at late dinner. The Great English Breakfast, with bangers, baked beans and poached eggs comes across with as much grace and refinement as porridge, and dinner offers potted shrimp with as much elegance as a perfectly pan-roasted Dover Sole. Making all of this possible, almost invisibly, but certainly not unnoticed, is the impeccable service team. And as if the food wasn't good enough, the people watching is definitely five-star.

No longer a busy kept secret in London restaurant scene. Many may choose to have lunch or dinner here, but I think it is best for an impromptu afternoon tea. The side room has a wonderfully decorated mosaic floor and sorting by the window gives a feeling of being anywhere but in London. Don't forget to ask for teas that you like even if they're not on the menu.

a hit and miss experience. re starters, great chicken soup, slightly overcooked duck livers. Wife's haddock dish was swimming in too-thin cream. Schnitzel? might be signature dish but crumb is too thin so when it sits on a jus it gets soggy. Mightn't be authentic but use panko or other thicker crumb instead. And spinach was like it was nuked, complete absence of buttter, lemon, nutmeg or anything else to lift it. Treacle tart was amazing though! imo, food better at the delaunay. revisiting that in a couple of days.

Certainly an atmospheric building but that is just about it.
We brought friends to London for a special weekend and went to the restaurant for Sunday brunch .The breakfast food , three English Breakfasts and one Eggs Benedict were cold , unappetising and so expensive for what we were served. The coffees were no better and the toast over cooked and cold.
At least the champagne was chilled.

We are all seasoned world travellers and quite honestly it was by far the worst breakfast any of us have had. The problem was that my wife and I were so embarrassed we did not want to spoil what we had hoped to be a special occasion otherwise I would have walked out .

If you are reading this review and thinking of going to the Wolseley ----don't !!! It is a rip off.

Wonderful. Friendly staff. Beautiful place good food.

Amazing place!
Excellent food, astonishing decoration and friendly staff!