Tanner and Co

OK, but a bit meh. Went because it wasn’t too busy on a Weds lunchtime, and it’s easy to see why. Adequate to nice-​ish food, but lacking flavour or flare, luke warm service. More than edible, I guess, and I appreciated the space compared to all the other local places, which were rammed. But I think the lunchtime crowds, at least, know what they’re doing by giving this one a qualified miss.

Best Scotch egg in London + Good variety of Gin + Staff is very friendly + Amazing deserts + They have a ping-​pong table
They have a room is the back that is perfect for company events

We absolutely loved this restaurant. The atmosphere is different — and quirky. With pommel horses for seats, the grouping of unusual objects fro a display and the unusual lighting. The food was excellent and the service, neither too formal nor too informal, was spot on.

Again great atmosphere, modern London inoffensive hipster.
Tables for food at front, the mushroom starter thing is great.
Outdoor seating area is nice and has a huge backroom which I also really liked. Cider selection not great.

Quick to seat considering it was quite busy. A bit loud and lively so not for the quiet minded. Drinks are average price for the area but great mixers selection. Good menu, friendly staff. Got starter in 15 minutes — main shortly after. I had steak and it was cooked perfect just a bit under temperature for me. Otherwise a good all rounder if you are London Bridge way.

Came here on a Thursday night after work. This place looks great from the outside with their courtyard decorated in multicoloured globe lights. On the inside the restaurant has a nautical theme. We started with cocktails. They were delicious! I ordered the bacon and smoked cheese burger for my main. The waitress made a point that it is served medium so I was disappointed when it came well done! It was still really tasty though. The reason I’m only giving this place three stars is because the service wasn’t great. They had another event on in the restaurant and we got neglected. When sitting down the waiter failed to bring enough glasses for our water. We eventually had to go up and get our own. It took ages for our wine to come and the bill also took a while to arrive. The food was good. For this reason I’d go back and give it another go!

The Bartender so nice and helpful!!!
Most Bars here in the UK are very small and people are all packed in like sardines. This place has plenty of room. I loved it here! Cute neighborhood Bar/​restaurant.

A friend recommended this place because of their killer scotch eggs. I soon discovered that her review was spot on.
5 friends and I came here for dinner on a Thursday evening. I made reservations for 8:00 and when we arrived I was so glad we did. The place was packed and had a really nice atmosphere. We were quickly sat and a drink order was placed. The selection of wine, beer, and spirits was pretty nice and we all chose something a little different. To start we had a shareable board and 2 orders of scotch eggs. It was just the right amount to give everyone a taste and soak up the first few beers we had down the street. For dinner I ordered the bean burger and was very happy with my choice. At our table we also had a beef burger, liver, steak, and the pie of the day. We also all had a scoop of the mac and cheese and cauliflower sides. I could have done without the sides, but it was good to try anyway. All around thumbs up and the dinner menu.
I wish I could give the place a 4.5 because it was a really nice atmosphere and very satisfying food. The temperature of the room was so hot and it made our time there a bit uncomfortable. When you go there, be sure to layer. I was all sweaty by the time we left and I am typically cold. So. that gives you an idea of how warm it actually was. Maybe try sitting on their patio. It looked very cool and chill out there.
Overall a great recommendation for dinner. They have a great online reservation tool for up to 10 people on their site. I’d go back again for sure.

Nice outdoor beer garden and lots of places for medium to largish sized groups. Probably not a date spot but perfect for after work drinks with a random array of colleagues.
The beer list could do with a shake up but the wines are ok and they have many gins to choose from. All in all it’s pretty good but it definitely caters for the nine to five crowd and their budget.
The house lager is my pick of the beers so if I were you I’d have one or two here then venture down the road to the amazing wine bars, French restaurant or one of the many pizza type places for dinner.
Very good event space. Can reserve tables.

After probably one too many pints in the nearby Woolpack and in desperate need of a feed, a small group of us wandered in here without a reservation at about half 10 on a Thursday night.
The restaurant and bar were quite busy, but we had no problem being seated and hadn’t missed last orders for food which was a relief.
A converted warehouse, the space is nicely laid out. We shared a comfortable booth and perused the menus, filled with mostly British fare «with a modern twist», like most eateries seem to claim these days.
I ordered their burger and if memory serves me through the fog of mild drunkenness, it was very tasty. It came to around £15 with chips and garnish so a little on the expensive side for what it was.
I felt far more hard done by after ordering a 13 Guns beer by Thwaites — a standard 330ml can came to an astonishing £5.50.
So it was custom led by empty stomachs rather than forward planning; overall good but not somewhere I’d rush back to if I’m honest.

Atmosphere is brilliant but the food needs a little bit of work.
Great décor with a school gym theme, friendly staff making the service good. I’ve been a few times and the food is just a little below par, which is a bit of a shame. Nothing disastrous but a bit average. Once you factor
Good for large groups and a drink at the bar.

Remember when you were little and in gym class in school and you went, «Sure, getting sweaty in here is fun, but what would be even better is to sit down and have an elegant lunch on this wooden floors.»
Right? Everyone remember this? … No? Not at all. Well, someone must have, hence the theme of Tanner and Co, a former school gym turned school gym restaurateur, complete with gymnasium horses on the back of every booth and curtains made of climbing ropes. Even the bathrooms are different classrooms like geography or biology and themed that way.
It’s so strange that I kind of love it. It’s at least a theme I’ve never eaten in before.
Now, the food was good. I had the smoked beef brisket with mustard and gherkin and it was fine, a decent sandwich priced at about £7, but nothing mind blowing. The hot salmon salad was tasty though and fresh, excellent veggies at this place. But I tried the iced neopolitan parfait, which wasn’t just ice but damn near frozen in the middle and not great. It doesn’t seem to be on the menu any more so perhaps they weren’t able to perfect it.
However, what gets that fourth star is the service. Just amazing, they’re attentive, they’re quick, they’re happy. Some of the best in all of London. If they didn’t have this, the review would probably have been a middle of the road three stars, but with it, it pushes it right up.
I wouldn’t mind coming back if a friend wanted to or if I was in the area.

Food is pretty good, prices are worth it (for most dishes),
but the slow, unmotivated and not very attentive staff pretty much ruins it.
Been here a few times now, probably not gonna come back soon

Tanner and Co is a restaurant and bar on one of my favourite London streets, Bermondsey Street. It has a wonderful design feel to it: really hip and it even boasts a ping pong table (hurrah). This review is only based on drinks as we didn’t eat here.
So why the two stars I hear you holla? Well, the bar service here is quite frankly diabolical. I waited 20 minutes to get served the first time (come on guys, it wasn’t even busy). About fifteen people who came in after me got served first, and it ended up with me actually asking the barman, «Excuse me, please can I get served now?» To which he said, «Yeah ok.» So it turns out you just need to ask, and whoever asks first, gets their drinks first. Etiquette is all wrong here, and it disturbs my karma.
The second time, as I braved the bar again, the bar was one deep — so it wasn’t very busy. This time around I actually gave up after another 20 minutes of waiting hell. We left immediately, and you lost 4 locally living customers in an instant, who then happily spent the rest of the night drinking down the road.
Sorry Tanner and Co, but this place has amazing potential so I want to see it improve. Hopefully this review and feedback will help that happen.

This is a good place to catch up with friends over a drink and meal. It wasn’t overly packed out like some of its neighbours. The setting and food are nice. I had the steak, mushrooms on toast and chocolate cake. The mushrooms on toast is great for a little snack if having drinks after work. The cake was deliciously soft and gooey on the inside. It’s decent food in a nice setting. This gets three stars as the atmosphere is nice, the food is good but nothing special for the price.

we came in here for hangover food on the way to get the rain back upt North
Laden with rucksacks we flumped down and gawped about.
Absolutely love the gym equipment and old school feel to this place. finally something a little different.
The food was great, if a little long to arrive (did i mention how hungover we were? very) and there was a bit of an annoyance of 3 out 4 meals arriving together and then having to wait for the fourth. I don’t like that.
Sorted us out for a long trip home.

Slightly traumatising walking into this place. Too many objects to remind me of terrible times in PE at primary and secondary school. Those ropes that chafed my hands and thighs and I couldn’t for the life of me climb up. Check. Those vaulting boxes that revealed every iota of gymnastic deficiency I had. All over the bloomin’ place. Triple check.
If you like that sort of thing, you’re in for a treat, the toilets are even dedicated to different subjects (I went downstairs and immediately saw the unisex toilet with ‘Biology’ and the symbol for both men and women’s toilets and thought, ‘hang on, what’s going on here?’ but I assure you it’s all very above board). Part of the menu also seems to replicate the delights of a British child’s lunchbox circa 1977. But not content with paying premium prices for an egg’n’cress sarnie I decided to venture out the box and get an air-​dried duck with quince, or something such. It also came with a tiny pot of chips, which were nice enough but the nicely packaged sandwich was on the small size. Probably around the right size for a primary school child. Taste-​wise it was kind of nice, but I’ve realised that I don’t like these gourmet-​British-​fusion joints, usually I am very adventurous with my plate but the salty duck and the sweet quince together was nice for a while, but then I started to imagine that this is what human flesh would taste like. I don’t know why. But I’m sure someone somewhere would like it.
I’m giving it a three stars because the virgin cocktails in a teapot was very nice and generously drawn, and I would give it another go and perhaps try one of the bigger plates with proper food and not the lunchbox of Russian débutante 11-​year-​old living in Kensington.

This is now open an very good indeed. Love the old sports hall feel about the place and the food is excellent! Try the hot Smoked pork chop! Delicious! Have now tried mornings lunch and evening and all have been great. They need to keep working on the service but that will come. Atmosphere is really good even in the outside space.

I really don’t want to be the type of reviewer who gravitates towards either 5 or 1 star (s) in reviews. I might avoid that on this occasion by awarding just half a star.
Delfina used to be one of my favourite haunts and this new opening is in the same space. What used to be light and airy is now claustrophobic. They must have let a bunch of 10-​year olds run wild with the décor as it is all garish colours, school gym equipment (including bench seats made out of pommel horses (!), random spotlights, ropes and typewriters. Not pleasant. The toilets are themed so you can choose to go to the Music Room if you like (meet there in five minutes? Is that why they need a name?). It’s a toilet!
The menu looked really interesting but the food… well…tasted of nothing. My starter was a mushroom carpaccio with a cauliflower frittata — basically a tasteless mini-​omelette with a few mushrooms out of a jar. My main (wrong order brought at first attempt) was a large salad which, again, was tasteless, and the chips were just about OK. My friend had equally tasteless starter and main (undercooked, tepid fish). And the portions were tiny. Our dessert was not bad — chocolate pud with peanut icecream. This earns the half star.
At least two neighbouring tables had to send food back.
The service was slow but then really fell apart just because a group of 12 arrived. In a restaurant that size it should be what they hope for — not something which causes meltdown. The head waiter swannied around trying to hard sell everyone items off the menu whilst all around him was going wrong.
Our grand finale was nearly being overcharged — the wrong amount put into the credit card machine by the waitress. This after we waited 15 minutes for our bill whilst staff stood around talking to each other or to customers.
All in all this was a disaster. I don’t know how much someone has invested in the place but the money has gone on the (dreadful) décor and not on getting the basics right.
We won’t be back.

Newly opened and doing quite well!!!
We arrived for lunch at noon to an empty restaurant, but by 115 it was jumping on a hot summer day.
*Sparkly Lemonade s
*Egg Salad sandwich with sprouts + chips on bloomy grain bread
*Starter rocket salad — super fresh.
*Butterscotch Tart + crème
A very solid lunch. The Butterscotch Tart was a bit of a letdown at the end, not terribly exciting, but surely a nice try. I had a taste of the neopolitan parfait which was frozen — could’ve also used some «oomph» to spice things up. The egg salad sandwich was a delight, as was the salad. All very fresh.
The real shining star was our server. Some of the best service I’ve had in London, we lucked out. I wish I’d gotten his name. Very attentive, helpful with recommendations.
It’s an entire restaurant themed around «gymnasium.» Done quite well, but somewhat of an odd theme. It does lend itself well to the playful menu, and a light/​casual atmosphere. Some very nice long group tables as well that can easily sit up to nearly 16, I’d guess.
Will surely return — wonderful lunch and once they kick those desserts into high gear, this place is 5 stars, surely.