Harlequin Restaurant

Had a delicious Welsh lamb in three ways. Details on my full review:

War zur Teatime (schon das dritte Mal) und bin im großen und ganzen zufrieden. Man bekommt viele leckere Speisen und guten Tee für sein Geld. Die Sandwiches, Scoons und sonstige Süßigkeiten sind wirklich gut und qualitativ klasse.
Es gibt sowohl bei Tee als auch bei Scoons Nachschlag (wenn man das bei den Portionen braucht)
Der Service ist klasse, allerdings lässt die Aufmerksamkeit komischerweise nach längerer Anwesenheit nach, so als hätte man seine Zeit überschritten.
Trotzdem kann ich die Teatime empfehlen.
Ein Hinweis noch — beim Bezahlen kommt die «böse Überraschung», wenn zum eigentlichen Preis noch eine «Servicepauschale» kommt. Das sollte man wissen und sich nicht darüber ärgern, denn trotzdem ist das Preis-​/​Leistungsverhältniss völlig ok.

Came here for afternoon tea — 19 GBP a person and they add about 12% service fee to the price. Everyone gets one cucumber sandwich, one ham, and one salmon. the salmon was so fishy that out of the 7 of us, no one ate it after one bite. Desserts and scones are unlimited — the desserts were not that good, but the SCONES ARE SO GOOD!!! Yes scones are good.
Service is okay. No huge complaints. There was a group of people with SLR cameras and giant flash and they were loud and continued to flash everyone in the restaurant every 2 – 5 minutes for an hour and the restaurant didn’t do anything about it. When I asked a server to do something about it, they told me that it’s within their right, which is kinda ridiculous. They did end up talking to the group and it stopped. But I was surprised that they believe it’s okay to use GIANT flash to take pictures in a restaurant none stop.

Quite surprised I’m the first to review Harlequin… But why not !
This is the restaurant of the Kingsway hotel, which is very well located in Holborn.
The restaurant has few tables and is very spacious, which not great for intimacy, but at least allows for optimal service. The waiters are indeed very nice and friendly, with being over-​formal as is sometimes the case in such restaurants.
We had the set menus, which offered a nice range of starters, mains and desserts. I really enjoyed my fish, while my wife had a superbly creamy coconut curry, hot enough to excite my taste buds, yet sadly not hers…)
The desserts were also absolute bliss, not too sweet nor too fat.
This place definitely deserves a visit.