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Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal London Reviews from The Last Year
A Culinary Journey Worth Savouring
Our recent dining experience at Alex Dilling's restaurant was nothing short of extraordinary. The ambiance of the restaurant was elegant yet inviting, creating the perfect atmosphere for a memorable lunch. The attention to detail in every aspect of the dining experience was evident, from the impeccable service to the exquisite presentation of each dish. From the delicate canapes to the perfectly presented mains, each dish bursting with flavour and creativity. A special mention must be made for the sommelier, whose expert wine pairings enhanced the flavours of each course and elevated the dining experience to new heights, and the restaurant manager for his professionalism and kindness.
Very enjoyable experience
I’ve been to quite a few one star restaurants, but this was the first time visiting a two star, and so I was particularly interested to see if a noticeable difference in quality exists. We went for the seven course tasting menu and one of the cheaper bottles of wine. Overall, this came out at just over GBP 300 per head, including the rather keenly priced 15% service charge. Their website contains a sample menu, but apparently the actual menu changes multiple times each week, so the dishes on offer may be somewhat different. I enjoyed all of the seven courses, including the canapés and petit fours. The best course was probably the main fish dish (turbot). Based on this experience, the main difference between a one and two star seems to be the consistency of each of the courses. There wasn’t a bad course here compared to a one star where there’s usually a couple of mediocre courses. The dishes themselves were slightly more intricate and innovative but not massively so. My only criticisms would be that the duck dish (whilst excellent) could really do with some potato or vegetables as an accompaniment. With just the foie gras as an accompaniment , the dish is too rich. Also the butter for the bread was served cold and so was hard to spread. The waiter and sommelier are a real credit to the restaurant. I liked the fact that they were highly professional and efficient throughout, but the service was warm at the same time and they were happy to chat which really enhanced the meal, My wide enjoyed the restaurant’s decor, especially the wall paper for some reason.
Elegance personified
We were here to entertain clients and loved the elegant surroundings. The staff were completely on point from the very start and provided a friendly but truly excellent service showing real understanding for the food and beverages they serve The quality of the ingredients was outstanding and they were served beautifully, each dish unfolding new flavours to delight the palette. The whole menu was superb but my stand out was the first course on our menu, sea bream and smoked eel.. just beautiful A perfect location to impress
Festival of Sauces.
Lunch this Saturday. Been several times. Therefore, I know the restaurant quite well now. Amongst the top 5 restaurants in London at the moment. Everything is elegant & refined about the chef’s cuisine: the tastes, the visuals. Just everything. And that day, I had several dishes, each with different sauces obviously. Everybody -almost-can cook (cuire) a duck, rose, well done etc..., a fish pretty well. When it comes to sauces, that’s’ another story. Hence the reasons why many restaurants have almost given up on sauces: it requires skills, time (lots), money and attentive staff (in French there is even an official term in cuisines for a staff that destroys a sauce: un “gate-sauces”!) . A good sauce does not come cheap if you do a proper cost analysis. This cuisinier clearly loves sauces as much as Escoffier or Alleno and the sauces here are superb! Negatives? The music, they can do better. Please find the music that defines this restaurant and stick to it! Desserts are good but way too classic and could find a new direction imo.
A must try!
From arrival, until leaving, the staff were extremely friendly, courteous, informative, professional...but never over the top (as can be the case sometimes in similar starred restaurants). The food we found to be inventive and full of magnificent flavours and textures. A treat to the eyes and palate alike. The wine paired for us was delightful and the sommelier gave us information we asked for, freely. Have awarded 5 stars without hesitation.
Amazing time
Incredible place from the entrance of the hotel to the table Staff of the restaurant was amazingly professional and looking after us, Food was outstanding, the creativity, taste, presentation, choose of products… The fallowing of the dishes was really matching I really recommend this restaurant For me one of the 2 best restaurants I did in the world and I’m use to lot of Michelin stared restaurant
Not as good as it should be for a 2 star Michelin...,
Some aspects were great....others not so great. The great - some of the food is superb The not so great - did not have the pescatarian menu available but was able to get some fish on to the vegeterian menu. The vegetarian main - vol au vent with egg yolk - was very disappointing. As you can only have the tasting menu it's a shame that they don't offer a complete vegetarian and a complete pescatarian menu. Also, oddly, no indication of which wines you get with the 3 wine pairing options. Tables are quite close together (surprisingly). Servce mostly good but a few misses.
Amazing experience
This was our family’s first experience at a Michelin starred restaurant. We are foodies but somewhat intimidated by the level of formality and service. The staff here produced beautiful, delicious plates and did a good job of putting us at ease. Lovely wine recommendation and lots of little “extra” touches throughout the meal. A lovely end to our time in London.
Amazing
Amazing place** worth to wist service is outstanding and the food is unbelievable specially the dessert was most probably the best dessert I ever eaten.
Very Good First Visit
A first visit to Alex Dilling at the Café Royal which is perched on the first floor of one corner of the hotel overlooking Regents Street on one side and the passage way into Air Street on the other. It's a suitably intimate space with just 34 covers, but I'm not particularly fond of the mirrored ceiling, it reminds me of a dodgy bedroom! The welcome is very good and it's all suitably friendly and personable. Efficient too with the earlier guests (as we were) provided with extras like being presented with a sample of the uncooked Wagyu Beef to admire, it's one of the two main options. Also, Chef Alex Dilling himself came and served the first course personally, placing a quenelle of caviar on the dish, although as service became busier, both these features stopped for later guests. There was just the seven course tasting menu at dinner consisting of: Cornish crab "Grenobloise", Pâte De Campagne with a beautiful accompanying olive bread, Oak smoked salmon with girolles, Blue lobster with Cornish squid and Thai basil. Bresse pigeon with Pea à la française, Gariguette strawberry cheesecake and Tainori chocolate to finish. After some lovely canapés and a selection of great breads, each course arrived looking extremely pretty on the plate with the standouts for me being the Oak smoked salmon with gorgeous beurre blanc sauce. The salmon was like butter and extremely indulgent with a smoked flavour throughout. Very delicious, as was the Pigeon which was served with pea à la française, stunning dish, packed with flavour and the third Michelin starred version of pigeon in a few weeks. This was the best for sure. My least favourites would be the Cornish crab grenobloise which was difficult to discern, albeit masked by a generous amount of caviar, but the hard cracker didn't help the dish. Sadly, the dessert wasn't to my liking either. I ate it but it consisted of three different flavoured chocolate spheres covered in a cream and sorbet. The textures weren't to my liking and the cream seamed to be curdled or was curdling. It wasn't that flavoursome either. Service was very good but having been to Le Gavroche last week, there are distinct differences, which if I'm honest, I prefer at the old Mayfair Grande Dame. Having said all that, it was a very good meal with some great highlights and with seven courses (£175), English Sparking wine, wine, water, tea and tip, the bill came to a very reasonable £317 a head. Definitely worth a visit and will be back for sure.
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How do I promote my first listing?
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I am trying to see if they would accept a smaller table size, how can I interact with the buyer?
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I had a bunch of resys and they cancelled them all and now when I get an alert and try to book it says the reservation is no longer available... has this happened to anyone else? Any recommendations on what to do?
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Anyone can help with payouts, support hasn’t been helpful at all. My funds cleared and I can only retrieve $50 usd a day with a $5 fee and a % per transaction. It would take so long and so much in fees. Thanks!
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I am having a tough time contacting and elucidating a response from AT Support. I had a listing at 6pm, which was a mistake as the actual listing reservation was at 11pm. This got somehow approved by AT, and a customer bought this from me for 6pm. I want to cancel this listing and refund customer , but there is no way of doing this ! This is so frustrating and making me lose hope on AT. Can someone help me please?
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This app is horrible I bought a res it was listed as one day but the actual res on a different day. Have messaged support non stop no reply. There goes $200+ thanks appt trader! Such a scam
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I am new to this app and started off by selling a polo bar reservation and then quickly sold one more reservation. Not long after I received emails from Resy saying all my reservations are cancelled and I am being banned from Resy for life. How could this have possibly happened without a rat telling Resy that I sold the reservation. I need some advice on this situation and let’s catch the rat!
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I have a big ongoing and it also shows someone is working on my bid. Today I see there is a " Buy Instantly " option at my portfolio showing same price I've bid for a reservation. I'm a bit confused, since my money has already been deducted from my credit card for the bid, do I need to pay one more time for the Buy Instantly? If I choose Buy Instantly, can I cancel my bid ( while someone is working on it )? Thanks!
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How long until I get a refund? Support has been slow, has anyone else experienced this?
I tried purchasing the reservation at $55 but it failed. Then I purchased it for $30 and it succeeded. However the $55 charge still went through on my card and posted
Cancelled reservations due to posting it here
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You can only deposit $50 at a time until you earn the “Sales and Low Refund Medal” I believe. Im new to this as well but the ability to deposit more money at once and increase your amount of listings comes with that medal.
Payouts
Anyone know how increase payout transfer to bank as I can only send $50 a day and they charge $5 for every transaction. There must be a way. I’ve contacted support two days ago and not a reply.
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My reservation is today and my transfer is still not complete does that mean it’s not going happen ?
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My funds from first transaction were supposed to be released today at 5:30 EST. Still showing in deposit account and not main balance
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I have been waiting for name transfer on my confirmed reservation for over 24 hrs and haven’t heard anything from anyone. Also need to ask for a special table. Dinner is tmrw night. Anyone?
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What does prepaid mean. Am I paying for the reservation and than a prepaid amount. I’m looking for joes seafood in dc. All the offers are pre paid amounts ?!!
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I have some reservations coming up tomorrow that have gotten lots of views but haven’t sold yet. I haven’t made a sale yet since I just joined this week. I keep lowering the price, but am worried they won’t sell. How long did it take you to sell your first reservations? And did you have success being reimbursed by AT for no-show or cancellation fees? Just looking for a little reassurance. Thanks!
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