The Folly

This is the second time I have visited and I continue to enjoy the dining experience. Good atmosphere - not noisy - and sensible clientele. Staff are attentive and friendly. I had the pea tortellini - there was a real freshness and sweetness to the dish. Can also recommend the field of fizz if you are after a non-alcoholic beverage. For drinks, main and dessert for two the bill came to £70. A 12.5% service is added. Highly recommend a visit.

Food: 4/5 Had the roast and the Yorkshire pudding is great, crispy on the outside and soft in the middle! The meat cut can be better. It’ll be great if they allow us to choose while ordering. Service: 4/5 Swift and fast, can be a little more precise on the cutleries provided. Location: 4/5 Easy to get to, ambiance of the restaurant is great, seats can be slightly distant away from each other for more privacy. The rest room is very clean!

Lots of space, busy and fast paced. We rented a room for a small celebration and were well looked after by Rico and other staff who were always on hand for drinks. The food was nice, and served promptly. A good venue for a night out.

Wonderful food and cocktails. My partner had the full English with berry smoothie and I have the avocado , poached eggs on sourdough toast with the Lavender Fields no-alcohol cocktail. All was great, fresh and delicious. Lovely environment.

The Folly has a cool garden theme interior. It has an evening/night bar feel. The food was delicious. Staff were friendly, helpful and attentive. I can highly recommend the chocolate and cherry sundae. It was fantastic.

A little pricy, but the food and atmosphere are both great! The fish and chips was delicious, with big flakes of salt on the outside. We also ordered a pudding dessert that was just so-so. The inside is really beautiful with lots of different patterns and pillows.

Randomly found this place while looking for a place open on Sunday evening. Very vibrant place with intense Christmas decor. Special Christmas cocktail menu that was pretty interesting. Food was good with a good variety of dishes. Muaic was a little loud, but understand that this is a bar/restaurant. Overall very pleased with my experience.

Nice food here. The interior design is great. Clean toilets. Staff and Bouncers are polite. One nitpick is although the staff are polite one of them had an issue with bringing your drink to the bar when making an order. I don't know what that person was thinking but leaving your drink unattended could be a risk what if you get spiked for example.

Decent bar and restaurant with an extensive wine and cocktail menu, including non-alcoholic options. A bit pricey for what it is but probably due to being located in a prime location. We stopped to rest and have a quick non-alcoholic drink and water to rehydrate after walking along Southbank. We also ordered the haloumi cheese sticks which were pretty good. They have free wifi with a nice ambiance; staff are relaxed and friendly.

Be warned, this place is essentially a pub masquerading as an upmarket eaterie which it most definitely isn't! My one and only time there, for a Christmas dinner in December was one big rip - so blatantly microwaved but not hot enough so varying temperatures of food but mostly cold. Should have complained but just got in with it as it was sort of the service we were expecting and were right. Due to its location, assuming it caters to wealthy City types who don't mind but for us mere mortals, it was hard to stomach and definitely not worth the £120 plus x4 Christmas dinners and puddings, two Cokes and two Peroni's for very lacklustre food. They was also not enough of it and was starving again later having to knock up a bacon sarnie when I got home. Temperature aside, my food tasted nice fortunately Goose and cranberry sausage roll, roasted spuds and greens but my partner's looked terrible Turkey slices, roasted spuds - see pics - exactly how his dish arrived and he can cook better at home on any regular Sunday. Think the kitchen staff are just that and not Chefs. There was about an equal number of staff to customers it seemed. Although the service staff were really nice, was annoying when drinks weren't received quick enough so you remind servers resulting in double drinks coming. The puddings were nice and hot which was great but then they're just microwaved up like the main course. I think for a large pub like this to struggle with service when there were only a couple of other tables in the entire venue confirmed our fears that it was out to make up for the losses suffered during Lockdown but this is not the way to do it. Very poor standard and although it's unusually spacious which I particularly liked, if it is going to survive long term, they need to have a good long look at the service they're providing as pretty aesthetics alone won't save them. Great toilets though! Cannot recommend in this instance.