The Brill

for 3.25 i got a fat bagel filled with salt beef, a pickle, and a couple of potatoes. this seemed like an excellent deal at first and i was all excited to brag about it to my flatmates, but sadly, the bagel was sort of stale and the meat was sort of fatty. wasn’t really feeling it… OH WELL!
for the price, i’d probably go back again cuz it’s so damn cheap, but it’s not very tasty. next time i won’t get it on a bagel either because that bagel was bustedd!

I’ve been here for lunch a few times with work friends and can heartily recommend the fish and chips. But the real revelation for me in recent days has been The Brill’s, errr, brill roof terrace and bar, which they open up during the summer months.
They have an awesome happy hour from 5pm — 7pm, but despite the bargainous booze and lovely setting it still seems to be quite an undiscovered spot and is rarely busy. I think this is partly because it’s by no means obvious that the bar is even there, and you have to walk through the restaurant and past the busy kitchen to find the secret staircase which takes you up to the roof.
There’s a covered outdoor seating section, so even if it’s a little drizzy you can still sit outside. You can also hire the entire roof terrace for private functions, and if you want food then they’ll light their barbecue and feed you yummy chips and burgers. Or even if the barbecue isn’t on you can grab food from their takeaway bar downstairs and bring it up.

Good food and service. Glad, in a way, that I didn’t read the negative reviews before coming…
Decent bottle of chenin blanc, £18. Delicious fresh fish and chips (fish better than chips, admittedly), £13. Lose a bit for charging service automatically tho’.
Ok, not the cheapest, but good quality so I don’t mind. Overall, bearing in mind it’s a stone’s throw from King’s Cross, The Brill was a good find.

Not sure where I went or if maybe a weekday mid-​day is different but I liked this place.
The Brill near Kings Cross was a surprise. In an area that doesn’t look great to the casual observer and yet is close to a number of large businesses including The Guardian, this restaurant is a gem of a find. A friend and I randomly chose it for a meal one evening and it was a superb choice.
The meal was delicious and the portions were huge. The fish and chips was delightful with a huge piece of fish cooked to perfection and the best chips I’ve had in a long time. The delicious meal was inexpensive and the staff were very nice. My friend had a delightful meal (according to him or he was just being polite :-D) and so all around this surprising find was a genuine win.
The menu isn’t extensive and there isn’t a huge choice for drinks and at lunch the menu is even more limited but this is why I think this place does such a brilliant job. They don’t try to do a lot of variety well they focus on around 8 main dishes and around 6 starters and do those extremely well.
The front door was difficult to find if you are looking while reading this review, keep going to the corner and ignore how the tables inside look that is the door on the corner of the building. There isn’t room for a lot of people but there is enough room for friends.
This is a lovely place to eat and next time I’m in the area I’ll be bringing friends :-D

One word… disappointing.
I went for lunch. It took an age to have my order taken, which they promptly screwed up.
I’m wheat intolerant so I asked for something to replace a yorkshire pudding on their roast beef menu option — like extra potatoes. Not a big ask. They didn’t even try or add anything extra so I got a plate with two potatoes on it, two thin slices of beef and a bit of cabbage. You can imagine how disappointed I was to pay £8.50 for that load of rubbish.
It’s an interesting concept — roasts all day every day, it’s just not executed very well. A roast dinner should be a plate full of amazing veg, a healthy chunk of meat and loads of gravy.
Like I said. Disappointing. I won’t be going back.

Worst food experience in London. Service was so bad that by the time they brought me butter and jam for my crumpets they had gone cold and chewy. One waitress was friendly but rushed and the other was miserable. Goats cheese tart was microscopic and overpriced. Burrger was a rip off. Sausage sandwich consisted of two rubbish sausages between dry sliced brown bread without any butter. Avoid like the plague