Northbank Restaurant & Bar

Service was sparse but food was great

Always first choice. I’ve lost count with how many times I’ve dined at Northbank. Excellent for every occasion and no excuse needed to dine there. Incredible dishes with an ever varied and interesting menu. The quality of the food is second to none and will put a smile on your face every time.
The bar is equally as exceptional with some of the best cocktails and interesting mixes you will have.

Lovely place with fantastic views and great food for January offer. Would definitely return.

Christian and his team have it spot on as usual! Excellent fish and fresh seasonal vegetables.

Booked a table for the New Year Eve. Had reservation but still needed to wait for 20 mins to be seated, another 10 mins to get served.

Nice decoration with balloons and some colourful papers on the table and chairs.

Starting with Cornish Crab Doughnuts, they were delicious until I ate some bites of crabs shells, which completely shocked me out, I might get hurt. I asked one of the waitress, she didn’t say anything and not even apologize, simply took another one for me and then gone.

Main courses: Slow cooked beef was completely over cooked. Pan fried turbot was nice, but small portions.

Desserts: Bakewell soufflé was okay, but the raspberry jam was awfully sour. Same as the passion fruit and mango panacotta, sour sour sour....

We completely understand it’s a busy night. But this definitely ruined our night with the attitude and the overpriced food. If the restaurant can not handle a large number of guests at the same time, then please don’t. This simply lowers your restaurant quality. Sad experience in the last day of 2018.

We decided to celebrate with friends, the arrival of the new year. The service was impeccable and the food absolutely delicious.

Thank you to the team.

Lovely riverside setting with food that was truly delicious.

The only reason is the service doesn't get a 5 star rating is that at the beginning of the meal, our waitress knocked a full glass of wine over on our table.

Whilst she was very nice and extremely apologetic (we were also moved tables), nothing was done to recompense us for what was an expensive bottle of wine - either a reduction from the bill nor additional offer of replacement wine.
It is not a big deal but at a restaurant of North Bank's quality I would expect something more to be done.

Otherwise, a brilliant restaurant that is well worth a visit.

Old 4 friends meeting from across-the-ocean after 35 years))
Very cosy, wonderful food and wine. Careful service.
Advice: go for the lounge - on the left side, “like-home-yet-in-the-reasonably posh restaurant” feeling.
Tipped £10 the waitress despite “Service charge included” (£33 against a £290 bill) - service deserved it. Nice view on the river bank and across (where Shard is).
Recommend for being nicely treated with good choice of food and wine!👍🏻

Exactly as expected. Most enjoyable.

Well positioned venue with good views across to Tate Modern and South Bank noisy bar scene but the dining booths cut a lot of the noise. Starter rather disappointing venison and beetroot terrine rather dry and bland. Ox cheek main course and the fish course all very good and well presented. Service was pleasant and efficient.

Took a client out to lunch, waited over 1.5 hours for food and in the end our client had to leave before the food arrived.

Kept being told it would be with us in a couple of minutes, it later turned out that our server had not put the order through to the kitchen. Obviously very embarrassing for us when our client had to leave without having any lunch.

Staff very apologetic and offered free drinks as well as a 10% discount on the overall bill. Food was decent when it arrived.

Overall a very unfortunate incident, hopefully just a one off error.

I had a disappointing dinner there this time last year and this was my first time back and I am glad I did. A very good lunch in a very pleasant environment with good company as well.

Superb. As always, a terrific evening. Great service and super food.

Very good. Wine at £11 a glass was a first!!!! Small portions but lovely food. Strangely presented crab doughnut starter in a jewellery box on inedible black eyed peas! Love it in there, though. No cheesy muzak which was appreciated. Thanks

Despite being a Saturday and quiet the service was poor almost non existent with no one really in charge. Only warm welcome was at the reception.

Great find, set menu was great value for money and very tasty. The service is excellent, attentive without being intrusive. Strudel was delicious , but apparently the choc orange fondant does not taste of orange and was not runny!

This is an outstanding restaurant, with consistently excellent service, a great riverside location and a comfortable, unpretentious atmosphere. The food is impressive, with good quality ingredients, imaginatively served.

Lovely food; great service

Very pleasant lunch with delicious food at a very reasonable price - set menu for £30

Great location, set menu is good value, house white very pleasant. The veggie options were rather disappointing though, soup and leek and mushroom wellington which was more like a sausage roll, not great at all. Non veggie options were good.

A very nice restaurant on the river, nicely decorated with a clean feel. Food and service was great. Reasonable prices.

Picked this put of nowhere. Looking for a venue near St Paul's. Food, ambience, service and view fantastic.

Good food and nice location. The only problem is if you are vegrmetarian/vegan. The only options in the menu were a pasta starter and a pasta main dish - too much pasta!

The starters and main courses we delicious. Both desserts were most disappointing. Staff were genuinely friendly and efficient. Temperature a little cold when sitting at the window as the central air conditioning unit was close.

Northbank is a real find.
Tucked away by the Millennium bridge on (surprisingly) the North Bank of the Thames.
Not only is the food excellent and varied, with crayfish and scallops from Cornwall, but the service is attentive and friendly.
You can dine on the terrace overlooking the Thames on warm days or enjoy the same vista from the plate glass window clad dining room.
A great wine selection that the manager Angelo will advise you on.
Perfect for a business lunch or dinner or a personal special occasion or celebration.

Northbank is a real find.
Tucked away by the Millennium bridge on (surprisingly) the North Bank of the Thames.
Not only is the food excellent and varied, with crayfish and scallops from Cornwall, but the service is attentive and friendly.
You can dine on the terrace overlooking the Thames on warm days or enjoy the same vista from the plate glass window clad dining room.
A great wine selection that the manager Angelo will advise you on.
Perfect for a business lunch or dinner or a personal special occasion or celebration.

We decide to go impromptu and I’m very pleased we did. The staff were incredibly attentive and informative without being intrusive. We had a very comfortable booth style seating which enabled us to have a private comfortable conversation. The fizz was lovely as was the rose perfectly chilled and not overly expensive. We both chose the hake with brown shrimp which was perfectly cooked and I am pleased to say the shrimp one of my favourite was a leading ingredient instead of and after thought. We will definitely return for a longer meal - but we try to not over indulge week days - but the starters and desserts looked very appetising

Northbank is a real find.
Tucked away by the Millennium bridge on (surprisingly) the North Bank of the Thames.
Not only is the food excellent and varied, with crayfish and scallops from Cornwall, but the service is attentive and friendly.
You can dine on the terrace overlooking the Thames on warm days or enjoy the same vista from the plate glass window clad dining room.
A great wine selection that the manager Angelo will advise you on.
Perfect for a business lunch or dinner or a personal special occasion or celebration.

Northbank is one of my favourite restaurants and it never disappoints and again it was a fantastic meal

Had the Friday night steak deal - the waiting staff couldn’t be any quicker in taking the order and taking the plates away, in fact one of us was still eating the main course when the plates were taken away. Steak was no more than a minute steak , more suitable for a sandwich, chips were nice as was the prosecco. The real disgrace of it all though is to ask for still water and get a bottle of tap water (the restaurants branded bottle so no way it was authentic mineral water) and be charged for it. Don’t bother coming here for the meal deal..

We were seated on the Terrace which on a lovely summer lunchtime was delightful. We found out that the Set Lunch Menu was not available during July so the overall cost of our meal was more than we had anticipated but the food we did have was excellent.

The kitchen must have been very busy as there was a very long wait between starter and main arriving.
Food was fine. Quite a nice terrace outside with good views of Millennium Bridge etc.

The food was excellent, we had the set menu. However I had requested a table not near to serving stations and yet we were seated right by a swing door going into the kitchen.
The hostess was not very helpful even as she tried to tell me she was, saying there was no note on our booking - I had a printed version showing that we did.
We remained on the same table as we were told no other was available - this spoilt our experience.

We made a 6pm reservation so we could get to a West End show that started at 7:30. We arrived early, told the hostess that we wanted to be seated asap adn had to leave at 7. Bar service was sketchy - we ordered 3 drinks. 2 drinks arrived, and when my drink didnt come, I had to go to the bartender and ask about my Chardonnay. He said they didnt have it by the glass. Odd that I had to go find out myself. Then, a party who arrived after us was seated first and I had to go ask again to be seated. Our food arrived at 6:35, so we didn't have a chance to enjoy or finish. that was disappointing service. Food was very good albeit rushed. Views of Millenium bridge and the south bank were good. a convenient walk from Tate Modern and Globe Theater.

Great restaurant in a good location by the river with outdoor seating too by the river. Food is consistently very good with local( Cornish) ingredients, the service is quick and friendly and it is quiet and roomy. Overall strongly recommended

Food was good however waitress was clearly not switched on and missed the order couple of times

Took my girlfriend here for her birthday. The food, service and ambience were all superb.
I can’t recommend highly enough.
We had the set menu, which is very good value, and a lovely bottle of Tempranillo.
This is restaurant not be missed in my opinion.

Pretty views & nice and quiet. Food was very very good & staff was pleasant & well versed on the menu.

Lovely venue facing onto the river and with wonderful custard of Tate Modern. Relaxed but efficient service. Food was good value - portions not massive. Would definitely return.

A good position next to the River Thames but when sitting you can only see the water from the raised tables at the back and not at all from the 'ground floor tables'. There is plenty of space inside the restaurant around the tables. The service was prompt on a 2/3 full Wednesday lunchtime, so there was no stress on the staff.
The food was simple despite some ambition on the menu names and well cooked and the main courses provided passable value for the setting. The asparagus starters were disgraceful value £9 for two spears of asparagus and the pieces of about half a morel mushroom. I did not notice (and was not told until afterwards) I would have grumbled. But the black pudding and gammon croquette snacks at £4 were fine value.
The wine was over priced, roughly 4-5 times retail at the lower end but the 'special' South African Chenin Blanc' we ordered at £25 was reasonably priced and exceptionally good apart from when the waiter tried to distribute our second bottle to another table.
The music on pipe (60's 70s coolish jazz with some vocals) seemed just right.