Côte - Covent Garden

As always this is a reliable restaurant which is why I always come back time and again.

A very busy lunch time and yet the staff were universally charming and the food excellent.It was very busy and yet all the food I ordered came quickly and was delicious.

Unfortunately arriving 15mins late for our Pre theatre dinner we were escorted to our table and looked after beautifully. Food was excellent and service was top class!! Super staff - we felt very spoiled!

The food was excellent as always, but on this occasion the service was slightly disappointing. The blood orange martini was excellent and a good price. The most annoying thing about Cote is the need to leave 25 words in the review. Most of the time 10 would be more than adequate!!!

Thoroughly enjoyed our meal in very pleasant surroundings. The set menu was very good value for money. Excellent service even though very busy. Would visit again.

The service is quick and efficient but always with a happy smile . Whatever we all ate the food was delicious . The menu is varied enough for everyone’s taste and budget . It is a place where you can happily arrange to meet friends and know that they will all enjoy the experience

Happily surprised at food quality and service level, but the 'crockery concerto' of dishes flying into the dumbwaiter frequently drowned out our conversation, even after we'd mentioned it to the lovely staff. Will return though...

Great deal lovely food and really liked the buzzy atmosphere. Great service with my daughter and will be coming again when next in convent garden. 👌🏻

The bill was wrong we ordered the complimentary bottle of wine, the waiter was aware it was complimentary but still added it to the bill ...not so long ago we had a complimentary pre dinner drink at cotes and the same thing happened it was added to the bill. If cotes offer complimentary drinks then they should not be added to the bill, especially when they are ordered it is made quite clearly that they are free of charge.

Well served by our waiter and the rest of the staff but there was a small inaccuracy on our order. We asked for calamari but with garlic mayo instead of tartare sauce. yes we were told but we were served the tartare sauce. a small blot on an otherwise good evening.

Excellent service and we much appreciated the free glass of bubbly to celebrate my nephew’s birthday. Many thanks

Excellent food, efficient service, the staff was very accommodating after we informed them that we have to attend for a performance. The chef was also very accommodating for our extra demand of extra hot on soup! Just delicious.

Soup starter was not hot. Calamari was over cooked. Food standard was not great. Service was very rushed. We decided to leave early without dessert. Went to another Côte Brasserie at Christmas and everything was great so expected the same level of food and service from this one but was very disappointed.

We enjoyed all aspects of our visit: very friendly and efficient staff, nice atmosphere, and a tasty and enjoyable meal. Cote is always consistent, and that is a big plus!

Our lunch was excellent. My wife had the cod goujons and I had the moules in white wine and cream. The mussels were large and beautiful to eat. We had chocolate mousse and a crepe for dessert. The glass of Saumur wine was a perfect accompaniment to the meals. The whole meal and the service made it a memorable prelude to a matinee at the Savoy theatre.

We have eaten here before when going to the theatre. The restaurant is always buzzing. The food was delicious. The service is prompt and very friendly.

We had a lovely meal, great choice on the set menu & good value, quick courteous service would definitely recommend to any one else, we had pre-theatre 😀

Great restaurant after having been to theatre - not too many people due to the late hour we were in there. Service not too attentive, but the food was great and well presented.

Great food at a great price - had a lovely evening catching up with friends. The only reason I didn’t give 6 stars is because there was a mix up with our order. Will definitely visit again.

Fabulous evening! Lovely quiet booth table at the back which helped us feel private. Great staff and delicious food. A great place for a birthday celebration!was made to feel very special!

Having written to say I was rather unhappy with my experience at Cote, Covent Garden, last Saturday, I was delighted this week to receive an extremely apologetic and sincere email from the Manager, Ben, hoping I would return and offering me a voucher. I was already booked in to go back again today as it happened and was greeted very warmly and personally by managers Tom and Ben and had the best table in the restaurant (56) which I've had before, so that was a good start. The service was exceptionally attentive, unrushed and good food and I was really impressed with the fact that our meal was on the house by way of compensation for the previous week. Well done Cote for training your managers and staff to respond effectively and promptly to my review last week and of course, I will now be returning rather than finding another restaurant in Covent Garden to meet my friends. Well done all! Sue Stamp

Went for my partner’s birthday and from the moment we walked in we were really well looked after with birthday treats. It was a fantastic meal and fantastic service!

I have to say that I was a little bit disappointed really . Service was good , however we had to ask for water when I know for sure that this should of been the first thing on our table as soon as we sat down , however that's only a minor detail . The food was the issue really . Overly salted calamari and the mussels we had as a starter were definitely not fresh ...really fishy , 6 pieces , one closed up , drowned in some wine sauce . Main dishes as well as deserts ok . Really frustrating as I do come to you're establishment quite allot so I was expecting a better experience really . Maybe the Covent Garden needs some improvement A

We were warmly welcomed and invited to choose which table we would prefer. Having just joined the Cote mailing club we had a voucher for a free bottle of wine and chose the syrah. It was so nice we ordered a couple more. The three of us chose two starters three mains and one dessert. All were well presented and very tasty. The rib-eye steak and grilled bass fillets were particularly lovely. Service was unobtrusive, friendly and efficient. At around £43 pounds each including service charge, great value for money!!!

The food was good, the second & much nicer waiter changed our table to a window one, which was excellent, although he forgot the mustard my husband asked for with his ribeye steak. However overall a good experience, the only real problem was the noise, the tables are packed far too close to each other and all the waiters rushing around, working really hard as it was so busy (but it was a Saturday).

Our experience was as good as we could have hoped for a in busy restaurant in the middle of "theatre-land" The waitress was really efficient , the food was prompt, hot, and tasty and at a reasonable price. An all-round nice start to great day seeing Tina Turner

The only problem is finding the restaurant in Covent Garden. There is a big board listing all the cafes, shops etc with a map, not far from the tube station, but Cote is not on the list. Why is that? Fortunately someone in the theatre we were going to gave us directions but we were late for our booking. We do go to Cote a lot because we like the food, but find that the tables for two are a bit too close together.

Well attended to by waiting and kitchen staff, they went out of their way to make my aunts 90th birthday special when they were very busy, lovely cheerfull atmosphere other customers were good too and joined in with singing 'happy birthday' a lovely experience. Thank you.

Lovely atmosphere, attentive staff. Good place for gathering with friends/family.

It was very cramped where our table was. The calamari was good as usual but my main was quite average, I hadn’t been to cote in a while but remember it being better

Efficient and polite service and pleasant ambience. Food good. Visit was let down by the appalling toilet facilities- cramped, filthy dirty, discarded tissue and empty toilet paper rolls all over the floor. Deeply unpleasant and left me wondering on the cleanliness in other areas.

There was a very good choice of food which was well priced and tasty. The staff were attentive and friendly. We will definitely be making another visit.

Delicious food and wine at reasonable price - delivered quickly so easy to get to a theatre after dinner. Definitely recommend a Cotes Brasserie anywhere - especially in London when out to theatres.

Great service, great food. My wife is coeliac and we know we can always relax when we come to Cote. We also got a seat in the window which, in the Covent Garden / Theatre area, was fun watching the passing people & goings on. The pork belly was gorgeous.

Quick and friendly service. Tasty food and well presented . Convenient location for shopping in Covent Garden and meeting friends . Nice atmosphere and helpful efficient staff

Excellent very good and welcoming will recommend to everyone food was amazing lovely place and atmosphere was good was not rushed have been to Cote on many occasions

May 20 was my birthday and I had lunch with 2 pals. The promised complimentary kir royals were provided. Very nice! The food we all had was very well received; it included starters of very well cooked calamari, mains of asparagus risotto, a breton fish stew (mine) and mussels in a cream-based sauce. My pal who had the mussels showed the waiter the closed one remaining on his plate and said that it should perhaps have been filtered out in the kitchen. When we got the bill, the cost of his dish had been deducted as a goodwill gesture. Amazing! The coffee I ordered was a decaff espresso. Bizarrely what I got was barely a thimbleful, much smaller than even the most 'ristretto' espresso one would get in a bar in Italy. The restaurant in Tavistock St is quite large and, as it was Monday, a lot of tables were free. We were placed right next to a table occupied by 4 or 5 very garrulous ladies talking at high volume. I suppose we should have asked to move to another table! But never mind. On the whole many thanks to Cote where I've eaten many times and will continue to eat. Pietro di Bembo

Delicious well priced foods on Prestige menu served in good time, as we were going to the theatre. Staff were very friendly and helpful. My on line seating request was met.

Mussels to start had gone rather cold. Cheese to end was also cold, as if straight from the fridge. Rather a shame, the other aspects were good.

Good value set meal with plenty of choice, excellent service and ideal for pre-theatre meal as got us through in good time without a rush. Will come again.