Beach Blanket Babylon Shoreditch

Avoid this place, it's terribly managed. It can ruin your night. Last time I was there for a friend's birthday. They agreed to host a group of 40-50 people, but did not care to stock up on the bottles we pre-ordered, so couldn't serve us. They also didn't have enough staff, so there was noone to take our orders. They ran out of gin by 11pm !? . All this while the place wasn't even half full. It's one thing to have bad service, but it's absolutely unacceptable to commit to hosting a special occasion and fail to do anything they agreed or even offer basic bar service. I experienced similar unexplainable issues all 3 nights I visited. They always run out of the most basic drinks, like gin and rum. It's a shame, because the place looks nice and has potential to be great.

I usually don 't complain... But very slow service, they didn 't have what was on the menu because it all finished the night before , my fries came 15 minutes after my burger. They popped to Sainsbury 's to get mint for our drinks. They didn 't have any sauces to complement the steak, glasses were dirty, my coke was extremely watered down. And the manager didn 't really want to listen to anything. Several things weren 't brought, like my friend 's salad. We were the only people in there that had any food... And after all that, most of the things on the bill were prices incorrectly! Sigh...

Went for a Sunday dinner and it was exceptionally quiet. We were probably one of 5 tables dining with more than 5 staff waiting. We thought this would mean a good experience and good attentive service. However, the service was slow and our waiter was very forgetful, when we asked for water he came back 10 min later and didn't bring the water. The setting and food was good though! Will take some convincing to go back there.

Terrible, don 't waste your time. Place wasn 't busy, I was seated and nobody came by to take my order for 15 minutes. I saw the waitress goofing off by the bar and she finally came over. When I ordered dinner and a beer, she said that 's fine then disappeared again. 15 minutes later, I left. I hope they eventually brought the food and beer to the table...I was long gone and went to Dirty Bones next door. VERY nice and helpful next door, almost like they value their customers.

This place is beyond a joke. They are over priced. The staff are rude and they are disrespectful to the local area. I walked down the road that this place backs on to and they just throw all there rubbish in the street. There were boxes and pallets thrown on the pavement. They also threw ice and food on the pavement too. That is a public walkway and is completely unusable due to the lack of care of this establishment has for the public. This place is all that is wrong with over priced poncy businesses. They have no care about anyone or the environment as long as they are making money.