Please see our spoilt WEDDING ANNIVERSARY list below: - Paper table linen and toilets smelly. - watch out for the 12.5% service charge added to the bill. - On arrival staff were all smoking outside the main door. - whilst eating a grocery supplier proceeded to pass our table on at least 5 occasions with produce directly above us and they were drilling walls while we eat. - The pear and stilton salad did not have any stilton on it and by the time it had been rectified the other members of my party had finished their food.- The waiter bombarded our table and did not allow us to finish.- The female manager didnt care - no offer of a discount even though I never pursued this avenue-Customer soft skills extremely poor

We booked BBB for my dad's 50th birthday after looking at the website and being quite impressed with the look of it. It looked just like my dad's kind of thing. It's a shame that the service had a lot to be desired. We arrived about 10 minutes late, it had been raining and we had been rushing to get there so looked a little flustered.

When we walked in with slightly damp hair and rosy cheeks the waitress looked at us like we were tramps that had just walked in off the street! No friendly welcome whatsover and she sneered down her nose as if to say 'what are you doing here?'.

She said as we were late we would only be able to have the table for an hour, well we were only 10 minutes late! We were sat on a table quite near the service area, however, some tables were a lot closer. We would have been extremely disappointed if we had been sitting there.

It took quite a while to even get a drink. The food was nice when it arrived and the decor did look impressive. However, everything looked a little dirty. Where I was sitting I could see into a service area and I must say it didn't look particularly hygenic. It was overall quite disappointing for the money you pay. You could go to somewhere like Pizza Hut and the service is better and the restaurant cleaner! I didn't feel it was a very special meal for my dad's 50th unfortunately.

Wow. An experience worthy of a really really bad sitcom.If someone had said to the management of self-styled Bbb (presumably because they can't even be bothered to waste breath on the whole name) 'go on, create the worst possible customer service and make the whole dining experience memorable in a really really bad way', then it would have been a triumph.

After booking a table in advance for 5 people for lunch, upon arrival we were told by a waiter (who we'd had to flag down as no-one was at the front desk) to just 'sit wherever', even though the only available tables were for 2. Reluctantly he offered to 'push some tables together' if we liked. Well yes, call us old-fashioned, but sitting together was rather the point in the first place. We were handed full drinks and wine lists and had to ask several times for the food menu (it being lunch and all), which was uninspiring at best, with two of the 6 mains - the chicken and fish - served the same 'fondant potato, green beans and lentil sauce'.

Mushroom soup with truffle oil was presented sloppily to the table as 'oil soup' and the mains were over-salty and less than piping hot. Food was skewed all over the plates and my friend's lemonade was topped up with water (when she mentioned this, she received a bored shrug and a 'yes?').Seats were filthy, the whole place was shabby WAY beyond chic and as a final insult, when we eventually managed to get the bill - the front of house person and waiter too engrossed in reading each other's phone texts behind the bar to acknowledge us - the credit card machine was programmed to ask if we wanted to add a gratuity in addition to the 12.5% service already on the bill.

Hmm, let me think....Sure it looks pretty from the outside but please don't be fooled. If you're happy to be ripped off by a complacent and smug business, fine. If not, and you find yourself in the area, go ANYWHERE else if you want decent food, pleasant (in fact, ANY) service an

This is the WORST dinning experience I have had in London and also the most expensive. From the start to the finish this place really does not match up to the style and decor and clientele of this Restaurant. Service was shocking, Senior staff were rude and disorganised with an abundant lack of charm, food was well below average and all in all without going into fine detail my advice is too stay well clear!

Pros:
Brilliant decor, fantastic atmosphere, Steak was cooked to perfection.
Cons:
Seating is cramped due to decor, staff were rude when we asked to be moved, drinks are extorsionate.
Great to experience, wouldn't go back.

BEWARE BEACH BLANKET BABYLON. The worst dining experience of my life. Although it is unfair to call it a dining experience seeing as we never got to eat. We booked a table for 9pm, were seated at 10.30pm and left at 11pm when we still had not received menus, drinks or an apology. Steer clear is the only advice I can offer.

Its funny but i thought the same as the last reviewer. The place was disgusting and dirty. Its the worst restaurant in london. The food is really bad.They are lucky they are notting hill otherwise they would not have survived. Tourist come here and don't come back but there is always another gullible one. This place reminds me of the really awful places in spain that are tourist traps and have no regards to quality or hygiene.
The decor on closer inspection are just cheap copies and the fabric they use are synthetic.I wonder if they are fire proofed.Its a wonder how people can be impressed by a few shiny fake bling.Again lack of education. I suppose the people in the know has never awarded them any awards ever, so this shows its impressing the wrong kind of people.Bridge and tunnel and chavs favour this place. I could not get out of there fast enough.

this is the worst restaurant i think i have been to in London. its service is appalling, the food is worse than average, and I just find the place DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY. We were sitting at the back of the restaurant and all I could smell was the dirty floor and rubbish that they obviously hold at the back of the restaurant. This restaurants has thrived because of the area, and that is it.