Eyre Brothers

6 Reviews on “Eyre Brothers”

• Cook & Pour

  One of my favourite places to stop off for a drink. The bar is never too busy and its filled with mature crowd. So if you want a bit of class and finese, then here is the place to go. They also do great food which I keep forgetting to save the pics for. Very Spanish its food and wines, with the odd Portuguese thrown in for good measure. Tony the Manager is also quite entertaininy and as the DJ, plays some scrumptuous rare groove. cookandpour.co.uk

  October 28, 2017, 4:18 pm

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• Tom Dory

  Lovely place to while away a Wednesday afternoon. Bar tapas actually filled me up. Super array of drinks behind the bar. Happy.

  January 21, 2016, 11:41 pm

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• Emily

  Havingdone prior research on restaurants around the Shoreditch area. I read multiplegood reviews on Eyre Brothers. My friends and I booked a table for a friendsspecial 30th birthday expecting to have a pleasant evening at what seemed to bea lovely restaurant.FoodMy friends and I are far from fussy whenit comes to food (One is a vegetarian), we love good food and have eatencuisines from McDs, Nandos, Pizza Express to Hawksmoor, Duck and Waffle, SushiSamba, Benares.Viewing the menu beforehand I expected acertain quality of produce especially for the price. Firstly, they only offeredwhite bread and did not have a selection of different kinds of bread.This was not an issue at all but I thought I might highlight this as somepeople are health conscience.Starters between us we had duck foiegras of which we did not manage to finish despite the fact we were starving.The second starter Yellowfin tuna was over cooked and very hard and thedressing was far too overpowering and could have been classed as a sauce.The main course was an absolutedisappointment despite our waiter having a word with the chef in regards to ourclear disappointment with the starters. My friends and I ordered the kingprawn dish each (14 for each prawn!!) accompanied by overly fragrant ricewhich came in ONE bowl for both dishes and were we expected to share this. Notonly was this slightly confusing as we assumed another bowl would come out butthe rice was overly perfumed we could barely eat any of it. The prawnsthemselves were of reasonable size however it was more of a starter than a maincourse as we were served a singular a prawn each. Id expect at least 2/3prawns to suffice as a main, which would cost you an extra 28/42 extortionate!!The actual quality of the prawn was very good (not worthy) however it wasbland and it was served burnt. The menu stated King Prawns plural. Myvegetarian friend had chosen the Grilled Spring Vegetables (16) thisliterally consisted of; 1 spring onion, 2 asparagus and one artichoke allburntWe did not bother with the dessert asthe experience we had with the starters and mains was a very disappointing one.As for the drinks, you would think onecould not go wrong with drinks, again we were proven wrong. Do NOT get spiritalcoholic drinks, as they do not know how to mix their drinks. If you are acoffee fan I would not even go there, one word disgusting.ServiceThe staffs were not attentive at alleven though the restaurant was far from busy and given that we were only ameter away from the bar. We had to constantly gain their attention by standingup or waving our hands, this we found absolutely outrageous given the servicecharge was a shocking 12.5%!!! We therefore kindly asked for the service chargeto be taken off the bill along with the drinks. They decided to only take theservice charge off the bill We then asked to speak with the manager whocharged over in a very aggressive and intimidating manner, chest out and leanedover us sitting down. When we explained to him that the food wasnt up to ourslet alone anyones standards he became very defensive and start shouting atthis point we were all gobsmacked and were left speechless. The Manager shoutingGET OUT AND DONT COME BACK. No problem for us as we would rather eat atMcDs than come back to this shocking place again. How a manager can speak tocustomers in this manner is beyond me. Im glad we did not have to pay adime; therefore anyone going to this place and are left as disappointed as wewere, my advice is to challenge the bill and youll probably walk away not havingto pay a penny.My advice, stay well away from thisoverly priced place, there are much more pleasant restaurants around the area!

  July 24, 2015, 3:10 pm

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• Frogs In My Kitchen

  Not as good as expected. I was excited about going to this place as the reviews were good (5* on Time Out) and the sample menu on their website looked interesting. When we arrived though we were told we couldn’t order tapas in the restaurant, and when we moved through to the bar the tapas menu was significantly less exciting than that advertised. As a veggie I had thought at least a tortilla would be available, but it wasn’t – and there wasn’t anything to replace it! I plumped for fried peppers and ‘soft ewes cheese and walnut bread’ which was all I could eat, but the latter turned up as hard cheese with quince jam and no bread. hmmm. The wine was very good, but definitely won’t be going back for the food when there are so many excellent Spanish and Portuguese restaurants in town to choose from instead.

  April 21, 2012, 4:09 pm

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• Oggie1

  Disagreeable. We once liked this place. Very smart interior. But that doesn’t make for a good evening on its own. Food pretty good. But in truth over priced and very quiet, bordering on the empty. There are are lots of alternatives in this area. The biggest downside is the guy who claims to be the owner. Never have we been confronted by a ruder and more disagreeable man. Quite extraordinary. He makes Basil Fawlty look like Rocco Forte. Don’t go here. Don’t give him your money.

  December 10, 2010, 11:20 pm

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• Dr. Dee

  Cooking less ordinary. After two visits to Eyre brothers ( lunch & dinner) I wanted to write some lines about this place. Whilst there are many places in London, that delivers inventive Iberian influenced cooking the EB does it with style and panache. The portuguese influenced dishes are interesting and are prepared with the finest fresh ingredients. The Caldereda ( the fish stew) and the Grilled Mozambique Tiger prawns are the highlights of menu . The starters are also inventive and not only do they offer a finest selection of Jamon Iberico but also the Grilled Squid is noteworthy. The service is friendly and the wine list has everything from delightful 25 plus portuguese and spanish gems through to 100 fine spanish wines. The atmosphere when we went for luch was more muted but my most recent evening visit was very different with a great buzzing Hoxton / Shoreditch crowd. A great place to go after work with friends. Recommended.

  September 28, 2009, 10:42 am

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