Reviews of Gate Restaurant
Posted by toptable.com user (2008-06-06)
we visited the Gate for a leaving do. Rather unhelpfully discovering that there are now two Gate venues when half our guests went to the wrong place. Food was limited to pizzas and a few salads and no deserts. Pizzas were very good but this selection rather limited. Half way through the evening the place turned into a club making it very difficult to talk. Good if this is what you're after
Posted by toptable.com user (2008-05-02)
Starts late and gets loud. Good food reasonable prices, the drinks on the otherhand suggest The Gate thinks of itself more as a night club than a restaurant.
Posted by toptable.com user (2008-03-18)
The Gate was certainly conveniently located for those of us coming out of the cinema, but it really is more of a dance club that serves food than a restaurant. The ambiance was dungeon-like and by 10pm the music had got too loud. Considering there are 3 pages of menu for drinks and 1 for food, we were pleasantly surprised by how tastey (if no delicate) the food was. Nothing bad at all. And at £7 per plate, the portions were decent.
Posted by toptable.com user (2008-03-08)
Gate Restaurant, Notting Hill is strange, the food is great and it is cheap for its location. But...it is a bar, not a restaurant. You are sitting in a dark dingy room, you are actually sitting on the dancefloor, all sounds echo and the toilet doesn't have a double door so every time the door opens you smell the toilets. Too bad, with the food they serve they could do so well, anywhere else I would have definitely returned, but not to this dark dingy basement. Let me know if the chef moves!
Posted by toptable.com user (2008-01-09)
Food is fairly standard 'international tapas' - a rather overpriced mishmash of small dishes. Alongside your meal you get to hear 5 singers or bands perform 3 or 4 songs each. One drawback is that you can't really have a conversation during a quiet performance, there's a lot of 'shushing' going on. Good if you're not particularly interested in talking to your dining companion! Some of the musicians were great - a girl called 'Bertie' was fantastic. Drinks nice but expensive - £7.50 for G&T!
Posted by Anonymous (2007-10-10)
Gate restaurant was pretty quiet when we arrived. we tried soem tapas and wine which was lovely and then moved onto somewhere busier.
Posted by CM (2007-09-13)
The gate restaurant is difficult to find even though I had read the reviews and was prewarned!
Posted by anon (2007-08-04)
My husband and I really enjoyed Gate. It was our first time and I just happen to find it on toptable. We made our reservation for 7:00 p.m. and we were the only diners in the whole place! We could tell though that it would be a really cool place to dine a little later. Our waitress was extremely nice and very cute. The drinks were really good too!! We recommend it....for a more happening atmosphere make your reservation for a little later.
Posted by RL (2007-07-20)
Its a little confusing to meet people at first as the Gate bar is across the road, and people were getting confused with which was the correct location. I went on a Friday after work about 7.30pm, The Gate restaurant is very quiet at this time but found it picked up a lot later on. We ordered a large range of Tapas which was all quite good. Its a good place for groups looking grab something to eat then continue on drinking later on.
Posted by DM (2007-02-14)
Gate restaurant was a lovely romantic place to go on Valentine's day. The service was very good and the food was of a very high class. I enjoyed the fish that I ordered and the desert was something else!
