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Le QuecumBar and Brasserie

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42-44 Battersea High Street,
Battersea Park,
London,
SW11 3HX

0872 148 3742 Calls to 0871 numbers will be charged at a fixed rate of 10p per minute (from a landline or a mobile) no matter where you are within the UK. This number is unique to viewlondon.co.uk.

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Reviewer stuntbabies
16/10/2008
What a great nights entertainment of Gypsy Swing for any Django fan. A real treat. Beautifully decorated, lovely atmosphere created by friendly punters.
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Reviewer CandiceWard
28/03/2008
Fabulous place - the atmosphere and the music are really something else! We saw an incredible gypsy band playing - so passionate and exciting -im a convert ! Beautifully decorated, 1920s Paris style, really friendly customers and staff and an owner who is so knowledgeable about this style of music . Food is good, pate, snails, beef bourguignon, coq au vin - typical french stuff and wine is cheap and very drinkable ! i shall be back again and again. oh, and they have a gorgeous patio which wa nt open when we went, but wil be soon i was told - i can just imagine drinking there on a hazy summers evening listening to this fantastic music and pretending i m in the south of france somewhere..!
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Reviewer rolandsymonds
10/11/2007
Very disappointing evening at this restaurant oweing to three main complaints:
- Dreadful food: pre-prepared/microwave food for sure.
- Slow service: 3 hours for a two course meal - and we were trying to get out of there as soon as possible. Tables half cleared, main courses arriving at staggered intervals.
- Boring music: some sort of piano and female vocalist cabaret act that did nothing was too loud to be dismissed as background music, and too unpleasant to be enjoyed in its own right.

To top it all, when we expressed our dissatisfaction, the head waitress informed that the food "is not amazing, but very good". No, it's disgusting and implying that your customers are food snobs only adds insult to injury.

The five pound booking charge, twenty pound cancellation charge and no tap water policy all show what sort of place this is - a shameless rip-off.

Save yourself 30 quid and go somewhere (anywhere) else. We all agreed that Wetherspoons would have been better and a quarter of the price.

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Reviewer Anonymous
15/10/2007
We went to Le Quecum on Sunday night with friends for a birthday celebration. We paid £12 to enter with about 15 others. Some of us were having food but most were there to drink and listen to the music. I was gobsmacked when I went to the bar to order a round of drinks which included a cup of tea for one of our party and was told that I could only get a cup of tea with food. I explained that i was buying a sizeable round of alcoholic drinks, had just paid £24 for me and my partner to enter the place and surely the barman could therefore bend the rules to accomodate my request. He replied that the rules were the rules and I could not have a cup of tea unless I ordered food. At this point he pointed out the manager who I politely approached to ask if her bar tender might on this occassion show some flexibility in the rules. To my amazement she refused and said that she didn't care about my request because i was not a local! Stunned, but not wishing to spoil the birthday celebrations of my friend - I calmed myself down and ordered a round of drinks and a class of tap water instead of a cup of tea only to be told... you guessed it ... they don't do tap water!

Very sad indeed, because they have obviously put a lot of work into the decor and atmosphere of the place only to spoil it by filling it with staff and management who have never in their lives heard of the concept of customer service.

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Reviewer Delia Floyd
19/02/2007
I visited Le QuecumBar and Brasserie with a group of my friends about a week ago. What a find! It was liking finding a little bit of Paris in the middle of London. The atmosphere was great and the staff fantastic. We all ate and drank and whiled away the evening listening to some of the best jazz in London. How nice not to have to go to the West End to find this sort of venue.


Le QuecumBar and Brasserie will definitely be a regular venue for me, so if you fancy something a little different then I suggest booking here for a truly memorable evening.
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Reviewer Nik Whybrew
15/10/2006
I travelled across London to visit this Le QuecumBar & Brasserie because I had heard good things about it. Real time and effort has been put into making a vintage French style venue and it also has great music, and when I visited a couple of Gypsy guitarists were playing. The food when it finally came after a two and a half hours wait was good, nicely cooked and simple, but small and not really value for money.



However, the service was atrocious. I was told that because two of my party were 15 minutes late that this caused the two hour delay on our food! I was then accused of troublemaking when I asked for a discount by way of compensation! Overall I was extremely disappointed by what should have been an extremely enjoyable evening at Le QuecumBar & Brasserie.
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Reviewer django
11/08/2008
Because this persons party arrived later than the first people their order was taken after many others had arrived in the venue therefore their order went to the bottom of the cooking order - this is normal. The two and a half hour delay is a little exagerated as our kitchen closes at 10.
The service was not atrocious the staff merely tried to explain why their food was delayed - this does not make them atrocious - a littlle strong I think and then to ask for a discount when it was their own fault they were late, is a little unreasonable to say the least.
As for value for money our house wine was £12.00 and our most expensive main course is £12 so two peole can easily have a bottle of wine and three courses for £25 - £30 a head - not much in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
For others please remember we do not do fast food - we supply great live music in a great atmosphere with music loving staff who really care about what they do, if you are out for a good evening please try to have one!
Owners and staff really do not want to upset anyone why would they? its not in our interest, sometimes it is customers who need a lesson in manners and decorum and who are lacking in style and class.
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10/07/2006
LeQuecumBar is one of the most charming night spots I've ever visited. It is a beautifully decorated club with an outdoor patio like in the South of France, the food and service were fabulous, and our last night in London was made most special by wonderful jazz guitar and a congenial visit with the owner. We will tell our friends about Le QuecumBar & Brasserie and hope to visit again one day.
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Reviewer Tris174
24/05/2006
It was a Sunday at 5:30pm, too late for lunch, a bit early for dinner but we were very hungry and we found Le QuecumBar & Brasserie just round the corner. It was open but empty, with only a young man and lady behind the bar welcoming us in. They told us that we would have to pay £12.00 entrance fee each.



We asked why and were told that at 8pm a live band would be playing and that was the entrance fee to see them. We said that we simply wanted some food and a drink and that we would not take three hours. They said it made no difference, we would have to pay the £24.00 for the live entertainment we were never going to get to see.



Due only to my hunger I suggested staying for some food and, in the unlikely circumstance we were still chewing when the band started playing, paying to enjoy their music then. No, we would have to pay £24.00 for the privilege of eating at the establishment, music or no music. We will never go to Le QuecumBar again.
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Reviewer Anonymous
11/08/2008
We don't open until 6.00pm. Concerts start at 8.00pm. This was a concert and everyone who attends pays a ticket therefore we cannot let people come in for free if they had been happy to eat and assure us they would leave before the concert started there would have been no charge. - Report
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