TOAST ED

[chatterb0x]

Hi Guys...

Has any one else been the Toast ED on Lordship lane before for FOOD???

The wine there is good and I would go back for pre-drinks possibly but I wouldn't recommend any1 go there for an actual meal. I found it over priced and the actual size of the meal itself wasn't great. I went with my partner and it just wasn't enough for a grown man.

The olives look like the ones you would leave until last normally and the dessert was just not what was described on the very pretentious menu.

We were served the first glass of fizzy wine THEN told it was nice because it was only 0.2% alcohol!

Safe to say I was NOT impressed...

[Louisa]

Hahaha :)

Ok if you're being serious then I applaud your guts for posting a restaurant review on here. If it's a wind up 5/10, all the right elements are there, it's just lacking something.

Louisa.

[Baggs]

Previous enthusiastic posts include Vineyard and Toby Carvery. It's a good thing there is such a wide variety of restaurants in the area and you won't have to go back to ToastED again.

[Pickle]

This may be a wind up, but I do tend to agree. I've been once with friends for dinner, and it was a pretty odd experience. The food tasted nice, but towards the end (we ordered pretty much one of everything to share between 4) realised that everything we were eating was able to be eaten with a spoon. No chewing required.

Drank plenty of the reasonably priced wine, haven't laughed so hard for a long time, the food was certainly a talking point, but I wouldn't rush back. Those that go often, is it standard for the food to be of the texture a newly weaned baby eats, or were we just unlucky?

[chatterb0x]

That's what I'm wondering but maybe not?

I have read many positive reviews on this forum regarding this place so I thought I'd give it a try but was disappointed with the food only. The service and wine was brill...so more wine less food for me next time I guess :)

[edcam]

The food there is great. Completely disagree, sorry. You have to order as you would tapas.

[Pickle]

edcam, that's exactly what we did. I'd read all the reviews before we went so knew the style of eating, for me it was the lack of variety in texture that I found strange - every dish was soft, and served looking like a flat puddle on a flat plate. Taste was good, not disputing that.

The one dish that was not soft was chorizo, which came just as bits of cold chorizo in a bowl, nothing added or done to it, other than being cut up.

[Mustard]

The best value at Toasted is their cheese plate. You get two different cheeses and their bread and butter, which normally costs ?3 on its own, for ?6/7. Agree about the textures of dishes. Had an asparagus dish there earlier this summer which was very disappointing and tasteless, could have done better at home. I do like the service and general overall friendliness of staff.

[Tradesman32]

I like it there.There is a great selection of wine and the food is always very good in my experience. One if its best features for me is that the menu and some wines may be adventurous but the overall atmosphere is anything but pretentious. The staff there deserve a shout out because they are very attentive and friendly.

[Jeremy]

I think the food is very good - possibly the best place to eat in ED.

It can be pricey though, and I especially don't like paying for bread. Apparently it's better value for lunch than dinner (i.e. you can get an actual main course instead of a couple of small plates).

[MrBen]

It's very good but not a "conventional" menu. Adventurous or slightly foodie types will love it. And some fans of mainstream menus wont. Whatever floats your boat I guess and its great to have choice.

[Sue]

I love ToastEd.

Food was so good I did in fact once ask for a spoon to make sure I got it all (would have licked the plate if I'd been at home).

Would eat there a lot more if my finances allowed :)

Having said that, they did once overdo the horseradish (I think it was) on something I had, but not a big deal.

[NewWave]

Went there once for brunch and left because they told us they could only fry the eggs not scramble them.

wouldn't go back.

[chatterb0x]

We had 4 plates between 2 of us plus bread, dessert and olives and I was STILL hungry!

My main meal consisted of soft cheese (could have been Philadelphia for all I knew), x2 new potato's cut in half, Some mushy duck and a plate with 5 slices of chewy ham. I have been to tapas places before, this was nothing like it. My bill came to over ?80.00 and it just wasn't worth it.

Again, I think it is new and they are very trying and the environment, service and wine is great so I would go back, just not for food.

:)

[cazfay]

I think it's great for supper. Personally I don't need to have eaten half a cow & a truck load of chips to feel full. Light tapas style food is delicious, varied and fun. Clearly some people might be better off with an eat as much as you can buffet for ?10...

[chatterb0x]

Don't understand why people have to be so petty on this forum, I thought it was for open opinions and helpful advice but I cant ever put a post up on here without some one having a sly dig.

Yes I'm a fat fat fatty who loves an all you can eat. ofcourse, that's why I went toast in the first place. :/

[vgrant]

You cant expect to come on here and be honest with your review of valuable local businesses - they are an asset to the community you know. they cannot ever be critisised. Unless its the Grove pub, then its a free for all - especially if you have a hey nonny no based beef with the place.

I have not been into the TOASTed place, but I have pressed my face up against the window on cold winters nights and evnvied the cheery patrons, with their pate, wine and grinning semi leathered red faces. Like alcoholic 99p shop clowns, without the big feet

[Pickle]

I'm amused by the assumption that because I wasn't impressed by the food I'm automatically a ?10 all you can eat buffet type!

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Pickle , the assumptions on here is just a joke ! The forum just isn't what it used to be .

[Jeremy]

Although I'm a fan of the food, in defence of chatterb0x and Pickle... it's quite a lot of money to spend if it doesn't turn out to be your bag.

[Seabag]

At Toast ED, I'm cautious when sat looking outward, outward toward the Sea Cow. I stop thinking of food, as art on a plate, a great experience, the love of their craft, homemade bread and homemade butter. Of service and delight and of new things, like old things, like other things I loved

Only to look, and tear myself up, and accept

I FOKKIN WANNA EAT CHIPS AND FISH, A POT OF SMASHED UP PEAS

I WANNA FEEL MY BELT GROAN AROUND MY GIRTH, I REALLY WANNA SPLIT IN TWO

PROPPA

[katanita]

Took my parents there for a birthday meal last October and it was really good. We tried one of most everything and it was all excellent, really well put together. And great service. But yes, pricey. Maybe they just have a badly thought-through menu at the moment that's a bit samey? Hopefully a temporary dip in quality.

[LouLouMoving]

I think the place is great and I love that you can buy refill wine to take away.

Long live Toasted!

[MissKing]

I've had two brilliant meals at Toast - its small plates so you have to order a little more and share. Very similar to Caravan in Kings Cross.

[Katy Tonbridge]

I love the atmosphere at ToastED and it's my first choice on LL as a meeting place for coffee, but the early restaurant reviews on here set my expectations for the food (unreasonably?) high, and my experience going out for a meal there was similar to Chatterbox's, a bit underwhelming. Chacun a son gout?