Côte Royal Festival Hall

Excellent service - very accommodating Maitre D. We were a bigger party than the number we booked for. She organised a new table etc very efficiently.

Excellent Food and Service from start to finish. Good value for Central London. Will definitely visit again when we’re in the area. Highly recommended.

Delicious food and attentive staff. No problems with the booking.

Delicious food and attentive staff. No problems with the booking.

Fabulous food, great atmosphere and the service was so efficient thank you

We went at the end of a busy lunch time and the service was very slow and rather casual.. We noticed that the usual manager was not there and he always seems to keep thing going smoothly by working hard himself. He was missed.

Great food and service in a well layer out restaurant

Noise terrible everything else very good, location, food, service etc

Reliably good food and good value for money. Attentive and friendly service.

This Cote is excellent. We always enjoy it. The food was good and freshly cooked. The waiter (Italian who looked after us) was friendly, helpful, professional, efficient and very personable. A really lovely experience once again.

This Cote is excellent. We always enjoy it. The food was good and freshly cooked. The waiter (Italian who looked after us) was friendly, helpful, professional, efficient and very personable. A really lovely experience once again.

Lovely as always, great service, nice atmosphere and wonderful food.

Nice place, good food but a little expensive with slowish service.

We had a lovely dinner, the blond curly hair lady was so kind and lovely, perfect service.

Excellent enjoyable and creative food. Well priced. A great meal.

Great. Friendly service and good food. Was a perfect evening.

Excellent friendly service, good food and an atmosphere that invites a return visit

Excellent, friendly service; delicious food and good atmosphere all of which encourages a return visit

Good menu and attentive service. The background music was turned down for our benefit

The food was very nice and is very good value.

Excellent food and service, some of the best I've had at Côte, however the acoustics and the fact that we were surrounded by families and screaming children really had an effect I'm afraid. There should have been more of an effort to seat these louder groups away from quiet dining couples who were looking for a celebratory night out!

Very good friendly service. But the steak frites was disappointing. Meat chewy and lacking in flavour. My side of green beans was also disappointing because unseasoned. Not enough attention to detail!

Very attentive staff made the experience great and the food was lovely as always

Good food, good wine. What more can I say. Thanks

Very good lunch for a party of mixed age groups. Lovely food and very good service. Very enjoyable.

A lovely spot with fantastic staff. The attention to detail is faultless.

exceeded my expectations, varied menu, all the courses were tasty and very well presented and attentive pleasant staff. Did get noisy as it got more crowded but will go back.

Always good quality food at Cote, sometimes hard to get the waitresses attention for more water, but overall another lovely experience at Cote

Great, as ever. We enjoyed the restaurant and the food.

The usual high quality menu and value fir money. Tables in the front section are the best. The rear section is slightly , only slightly claustrophobic.

Lovely afternoon with good food and service. But the ladies loos have to be sorted out especially the lighting which is totally inadequate. This pm there were also "wonky" seats and wet floor. But lighting is the main issue. And ok to sit outside but inside still problems with a/c and noise

Very attentive staff. Good selection on set menu. Linen napkins added to the experience😍

Great service, lovely food reasonably priced for our 2 course set menu! Lovely ambience. We’ll be back! Thank you 😊

Excellent location Excellent value Excellent service Excellent food Perfect evening Strongly recommended

It was pre-theatre so not at Cote for very long. Food was fine. Service was, and always is, very good.

The restaurant was quiet but a shift change was clearly happening as people appeared from the kitchen obviously on their way home and there was much chatting among the staff so it was difficult to attract their attention. The waiter who took our order had trouble with the tablet he was using which didn't inspire confidence. The veggie menu looked good, more extensive than usual in a French restaurant. A manager took the waiting staff off for a briefing session outside so when the busboy arrived with our food he had to wait until someone appeared to serve it. My onion soup contained a lot of inedible onion skin and the watercress garnish on my husband's plate had seen better days. When our first course plates were eventually cleared we complained. The waitress was charming and we could see her discussing this with a manager. when we came to pay she explained that we had not been charged for the first courses which was good but I would have expected the manager to offer an apology. We ate recently at Cote in St Martins Lane and were very impressed with the food and the service at a particularly busy time, so this was a big disappointment.

Very good, had a wonderful meal with fantastic staff, would recommend,

Food was great but the service was incredibly slow. An hour into our meal and we still hadn’t had our main course. The restaurant wasn’t even half full!

Good reliable restaurant on the South Bank with great staff

good food and wine reasonably priced. Possibly an additional vegetarian main option would be good

We thoroughly enjoyed our experience at the Cote (royal festival hall branch). Food was great, service was good, only sad thing is that we weren't able to have dessert due to our own time restrictions!!

The pre theatre menu is amazing value for money, always great options to choose from! Food was tasty, very prompt service and lovely restaurant. I dine at cote a lot and would only wish the desert menu on the pre theatre set menu was changed more often!

Always excellent and well priced with great service! I’m a regular!

Great location and lovely food but make sure you allow yourself plenty of time if you are having a pre-theatre meal as the restaurant is very busy early evening. Very glad we booked our table.

We were a party of 5 who meet regularly, called The Bubble Club. We always drink champagne. We ordered a second bottle of Taittinger at 7pm only to be told that there were no further cold bottles. We accepted a different brand after being promised that 2 bottles of Taittinger would be put on ice. When we later asked for the bottles we were told they had run out of Taittinger so the waitress had lied about the supply. If we'd known this we would not have ordered food. Our chips were cold and had to be replaced. Likewise with the "hot" chocolate fondant that was cold. The food was not up to the usual Cote standard (we are all fans of the brand). Despite not being charged for one bottle of champagne, we had a disappointing evening which was not value for money (at almost £300).

Great selection of food which was presented well. Service efficient and this venue is ideal for the southbank and nearly theatres and music auditoriums.

The meal was lovely and the service great. I dine at Cotes quite a bit and great that a Cotes now has been opened in Basingstoke.

Met with two overseas visitors for lunch. Neither had heard of Cote but both enjoyed the occasion and food but also the location in the heart of the South Bank.

Great breakfast, we needed gluten free for my daughter and it was perfect!

I always enjoy lunch here, especially outside. Will be back

Food was delicious, service a little slow but it was a busy evening and we weren’t in a hurry so no harm done. All very friendly though and the same high standard of food and drink I usually expect from Côte. Thank you!

Slow service but food came relatively quickly and was delicious.