Came to Gaucho Covent Garden for my husbands 50th birthday. Food was great, crab starter exceptional. Sadly no mention of my husbands birthday even though I’d sent a message beforehand.
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SquareMeal started over 30 years ago, as a guide to the best restaurants in the City of London. Since then, we have grown to encompass the whole UK, as well as private dining, weddings and parties. Now, we are the UK’s leading restaurant guide, with millions of diners using our site every month. We publish articles, guides, ‘best’ lists, reviews, round-ups, foodie news and more.
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Amazing
I had an amazing lunch time they do the best carbonara and great service
Great food and great service
Voucher system is not straight forward. You can't use your voucher on the day as you have to pay for your entire meal and then claim back your voucher via the square meal app....way too complicated. Keep it simple!! Ptherwise, great food and great service ar Red Dog. Team were super helpful and friendly. They helped with our food order as there's so much choice on the menu! The smoked dishes tasted amazing. Only negative is our food arrived luke warm even though the restaurant was quite with a handful of guests dining.
Fantastic food and service
Fantastic food and service. Quality ingredients used, beautifully cooked and very reasonably priced too. Would advise booking a table if you want to dine in as the queue can be a long one...it's a very popular place!
Simply The Best
Great and service, value for money, and the setting is stunning.
St johns Smithfield Fab food as always
Fab food as always. Welsh rarebit was amazing! Staff always helpful and just a treat to always come here!
A truly wonderful addition to Islington…
A truly wonderful addition to Islington dining. Gazpacho with crevettes, a perfect, intense summer dish, a tender rump steak with the best frites in London and a glorious Eton mess. Summer joy, with some extraordinarily interestIng art on display. An absolute gem
Awful service
Awful service, was forced by my wife to use this. Spent time that I will never get back trying to redeem voucher in a confusing manner. Stay away from these charlatans .
very good meal good service
very good meal good service
Ashley was very helpful
Absolutely awful
Absolutely awful. I received a voucher last year as a gift and cannot find anywhere to spend and when I do there is no availability. Do not buy this as a gift - I appreciate the gesture but have not been able to spend. Feels like a bit of a scam
Confusing to the point of being deceptive
I was given a Square Meal voucher for Christmas, which I genuinely cannot spend. Despite Square Meals' claims, there is no list on the website of restaurants that accept vouchers, and no way to search that way on their site. For some reason they have an enormous list of pretty much every restaurant in London which makes it seem like they all accept the vouchers, and then you book a table and it turns out that they don't accept them at all, or you can only get a seat in their bar, but not in the full restaurant. If I could find a URL of a page which features restaurants which actually accept the vouchers, I would just book and go. What an incredibly frustrating and annoying gift to receive from someone who was trying to be generous. If anyone knows a restaurant that accepts these damn vouchers in North or central London that's worth going to please do let me know. I'd love to spend the hundred quid.
Lunch time treat that we will definitely repeat.
Treated my daughter to lunch in her lunch hour. We chose the steak from the lunch deal. The starter was great, much better than we expected. We both had the steak which was amazing. Perfectly cooked and very tender. Bonus was that we finished our meal in time for her to return to work, as requested. Definitely returning.
Can't tell if this website is a scam of not
I see what the company was trying to do with the whole concept of gift vouchers linked to your card HOWEVER it just isn't as simple as it was advertised. There was a few issues. I got gifted a voucher from work for squaremeal and I will tell work never gift anyone this. It is the worst gift ever.
First problem was that not all restaurants accepted the smart vouchers. So you are limited by choice.
Second issue is that I did all the steps to ensure I get the money redeemed. It was suppose to be an automatic process but I haven't gotten an email to ask if I want to use the voucher and get my money back.
Third problem is that the website it horrible to navigate. There are several ways to get to the same page of a website but sometimes it doesn't have the filter bar so you cannot filter tot he restaurants that accept the voucher.
I am still getting in touch with squaremeal to try get my money back. I went to a restaurant I never wanted too but because it the was the only one near queens park that accepted the voucher and ended up spending £90 or food that I didn't enjoy. This is more stressful than it needs to be.
UPDATE: customer service did get back to my request after I sent a query form. They responded the next working day and swiftly sent me a link to allow me to use the £40 voucher my workplace gave me and I managed to get the money reimbursed into my bank account.
The service was swift so I could not fault them on that! Thank you team. However I personally don't like the concept of these gift voucher where you use your money first then getting reimbursed, so I left it at 3 stars mainly due to the concept of it all

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Came to Gaucho Covent Garden for my husbands 50th birthday. Food was great, crab starter exceptional. Sadly no mention of my husbands birthday even though I’d sent a message beforehand.
Lovely Evening
The atmosphere is always great. Lovely cocktails and food. Staff excellent; very freindly and attentive.
Excellent
A great experience as always, and no hanging around !
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A MEMBER OF STAFF NAMED LLOYD IS AN…
A MEMBER OF STAFF NAMED LLOYD IS AN ASSET TO THE ORGANISAION
VERY HELPFUL,KNOWLEDGEABLE AND A GOIOD ATTITUDE WHICH MADE ALL HIS CUSTOMERS SMILE AND GOOD COMMUNICATION
Very nice food
Very nice food, friendly service, and well-priced. A cut above similar restaurants.
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