200 St Vincent Street

My daughter treated me to afternoon tea — what a delight. Staff were extremely attentive. We had ham § mustard sandwiches and tuna mayonnaise sandwiches. My daughter is vegetarian and the chef prepared her hummous and red pepper ciabatta and she was impressed. We had scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam — another favourite. We then had bite sized meringue, macaroons (one each). However we had to fight over a chocolate éclair, shortbread, cookie and a piece of chocolate cake. My lovely daughter one that fight!
We had the choice of hot drinks. We were told that there was free refills.
The environment is lovely, modern and fresh. I like the fact you can see the staff in the open kitchen.
Toilets get the thumbs up. There is even ghd straighteners.

This really is a strange sort of place — it’s inside an office building which means you need to go past security to get into the building, and you’ll get directed to take the lift to level 6.
When you arrive, you might be confused (like I was) at where to actually go — there are signs promoting the spa and so I thought that was the hallway I was walking down — thankfully it wasn’t and it was actually the restaurant space where I was headed.
The restaurant space is very slick and modern but feels like a corporate canteen. I wasn’t eating on this visit but they have a set price menu of £7.95 for two courses at lunch time which I assume is from the buffet area.
I was in for a meeting and service was fine — they popped over to check on drinks and delivered a jug of water to the table. I found the seats at the high tables really uncomfortable. There is also normal seating though so you could move if you’d ended up at one by accident.
200 St Vincent Street also has a spa (on level 7) and has a number of corporate rooms for hire for presentation and weddings. Like I said, I personally find it a bit of an odd place as it is just so corporate and I can’t see the appeal of going here for lunch, but it was perfectly fine for a meeting.

We went here for lunch on a Friday lunchtime and it wasn’t what I expected at all. Located in what looks like an office block, you get whizzed up in the lift to the 6^th floor. Lovely tiled floors then lead through to a cafeteria. Hmmmm fine if that’s what you are looking for but I this place is marketed as a restaurant and it doesn’t feel like one at all.
You order and pay at till points up next to food, baked potato ovens etc. and then a number is given to you to stick on a stand on your table.
The lunch menu had 4 or 5 main course options and none of them took my fancy (fish & chips, Caesar salad, gnocchi) and I honestly just wanted to leave and head somewhere else for lunch. Then we saw the pizza on the menu — it was under a different section and I’d originally thought it was the desserts — and went for those. At over £11 for a small pizza, they weren’t overly offensive but certainly not worth going back for.
The waitress who served us was nice and friendly but it was her first day and every question we asked resulted in her checking with someone else. We also noticed that coffees seemed pricey, with lattes listed at £4 on the menu.
I did see a few people have afternoon teas, these looked lovely with sandwiches, cakes and scones but I doubt I’ll be back to try them out for myself.

Strange sort of place — met on the groundfloor by a girl straight out of a Bond Film before being whisked out on the 6^th floor. For a nice pub meal. Liked it a lot amd the waitresses — all as efficient as they were beautiful– seemed slightly at odds with the food. I liked it but I kept expecting to meet Scarlett and Matthew.