Ambrosia Bistro - Wandsworth

Although expensive, food and service was excellent. There is a wide choice of cocktails besides the usual fare, and food was well presented and delicious.

Classiccarguy It was meant to be a special occasion a classic car club lunch to kick off the New Year and our organisation's 25th Anniversary. Despite terrible weather we all turned-up in the heady expectation that the reviews on TripAdvisor would make this a...day to remember. It was but for all the wrong reasons. First the good news. Yes the hotel is bright and modern, although signage is scant and it is not at all obvious that the hotel exists. The double height atrium blah,blah,blah. The heliport is right outside which is no doubt handy for some. However, we arrived by classic car and we wanted feeding. Ashnick has already run through this travesty of a buffet made worse by the cheapo standard. Honestly, you'd have eaten better at a motorway service station. But to run out of what was already a sparse selection of food is inexcusable. When ordering wine, some friends had to engage in a curious guessing game after the waiter explained that some of the wine was unavailable. After several attempts to pin down the elusive wine it arrived well after the meal had been consumed. Eventually some dreary supermarket sandwiches appeared but by then our party had had enough and many were heading home. A thought came to me, afterwards, for anyone else caught out by Hotel Verta's inadequate catering arrangements send a helicopter out to search for food.

I attended a lunch for a car club I belong to. We had to pay £40 per head for a glass of Champagne and a so called buffet lunch. There were around 35 of us present on a very snowy day so some of us...made an effort to attend. The buffet was quite diabolical. There was bread, a few salad items and, in the same section some chocolate mousse and fruit salad which, in itself, was strange. In the next section was the main course of some chicken wraps, some cut up sausages (no doubt from breakfast) and some salmon. Those at my table took the salad and returned a little later only to discover no main course left aside from some sausages. We asked some staff members when the main course would be replenished and kept being told soon In the event only the wraps were replaced with some very basic sandwiches. The sweet was adequate but the whole experience was catastrophic with no staff member taking ownership of the situation. I can only assume that the weather must have affected things. If so someone should have told us. I can only hope that others have a more fortunate experience.

Exactly what we needed. some very authentic Italian cuisine, inexpensive. the atmosphere was charming and rustic.

Very kind I have been this week three times there, as I operate near three different directed, I will certainly be back.