Restaurant has 3 different venues: Restaurant, Bistro, Tavern. I went to the Bistro with a group of friends. The Bistro seating and menu is less formal and our group sat at a comfortable round table. Service was good and we had a great time(possibly helped along by the stop at the pub earlier). Unfortunately, I thought the seating and service were the high-points of the place. Not sure if they named this place Bleeding Heart hoping for some excessively sympathetic reviews of their food, but it won’t work on me. Food was ‘ok’ to ‘blah’ based on my experience: – ‘ok’ — I had the duck salad to start, which was pretty good. – ‘blah’ — For my main, I had the pan-fried skate which was terrible — it didn’t taste fresh at all. The taste of bad fish is now the one memory I’ll have of this place. Kinda like how the smell jagermeister shots at a bar makes me a little queasy remembering the hangover from the last time — funny how food memories stay with you like that. So Bleeding Heart = Bad Fish in my mind now and forever. Doesn’t mean I won’t ever go back here, as it might have just been bad luck for me that night with the fish — but I definitely won’t have the fish and I might get a little queasy getting in the door.
Jason R.
Rating des Ortes: 4 New York, NY
Nice bistro by office. 3 sep restaurants… pub, bistro and fine dinning.
Thomas W.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
I’ve been the subterranean restaurant before and was a big fan(especially as I wasn’t paying) as the underground décor suits rich French foods and complex red wines. Today we went for lunch at the Bistro and had a different but good experience. The food was standard bistro fare but well done. Lamb steaks, steak haches, etc. etc. Our meal was slightly over shadowed by mistakes; drinks not brought, wine on the bill twice, steaks well done not rare but despite this it was still enjoyable. In the end whether you like the Bleeding Heart restaurants depends on whether you like the French restaurant experience. You turn up, they speak French to you, you respond clearly indicating that your GSCE French doesn’t enable anything beyond«merci», despite this they perservere, and do they perservere; even when you don’t understand the specials and definitely don’t get their explanations of the food. Some may find this beyond annoying but I quite enjoy it as I find it a transporting experience.