Pret a Diner – Italians Do It Better

*This is an event listing and not a review of the event*

The ‘Pret a Diner’ dining concept returns to London until 30 June with the latest concept, ‘Italians Do It Better’, which involves a series of dinners from acclaimed chef Giorgio Locatelli.

The Pret a Diner event takes place at 50 St James’s Street before it closes for a full revamp, where there will also be cocktails from maestro mixologist Tony Conigliaro from 69 Colebrooke Row (our pick for one of the best cocktail bars in London) and an exhibition of contemporary Italian artists by the Gazelli art house.

Read our guide to the best Italian restaurants in London.

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  • Had dinner at Pret a diner last night. Absolutely the best meal I’ve had in London…ever. I’ve lived here for 16 years and have not experienced anything so good in terms of food and service. graceful.

  • I had dinner at the Pret-a-Dinner pop-up restaurant yesterday. I spent £117 in total with drinks and the food simply not good. The tuna pasta is the same that I cook when I have nothing left but a can of tuna in my cupboard. The rest was basic plane food lamb, a dry tuna burger and some weird gnocchi with mushy pees. Not only was I disappointed and felt bad to give so much money away but I am now sick in the stomach. In other word do not go next time!!!

    • Hi Arthur,

      Sorry to hear that you did not enjoy Pret a Diner, we have received good feedback from a lot of people, but it’s always important to hear if things go badly as well.

      Many thanks.

  • The most boring, lazy and disappointing dining experience of my entire life! Obviously it didn’t help that I just came back from Italy a week ago… I wouldn’t pay for that kind of badly per-cooked, badly re-cooked food for £10! But guess what it did cost £75. Let’s not go into all details (even the olive oil that wasn’t actual ollive oil, or the over cooked pasta), but simply: anyone who enjoys decent food deserves better than that. This was a pretentious, expensive, ridiculous joke. Shame on whoever organised it. DON’T GO!!!.

  • The atmosphere of the restaurant was ridiculous. We had to wait in a corner of the bar for an hour for our table and even then the host who was trying shamefully hard to be hip spent 30 minutes explaining the ‘philosophy’ of the ‘restaurant.’ The menu offered only two choices. I was in a party of five and every single one of us was horrified by the poor quality of the food. It had all obviously been prepared before hand to save time. Nobody at my table even finished any of their courses because not only was the food not good, it was actually very bad.
    If you are looking for a restaurant trying desperately hard to be hip that charges several hundred pounds for food so bad you will not even be able to finish your meal and that will also require you to wait an hour while being pestered by the untrained wait staff then this is your place.
    Just another note – despite only having two options on the menu and a tiny drinks list many ingredients were not available so were simply missing from the tiny dishes.
    The cocktail the pretentious host recommended tasted like cough syrup. The chef and owners should be truly ashamed.

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