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Lovely atmosphere, great decor, and great music! Definitely appreciate the attention to details. Food was great too, portions were quite large; and the selection of cocktails is impressive! Only negative, they are not great at keeping track of reservations (I received an email after our dinner saying we didn't show up...).

This was hitting the spot! I loved the food and it was a decent sized plate of food!! The flavours were great and a little spicy but it felt that’s what was needed. The drink I went for a mock tail but would probably try cocktails next visit. Ill definitely be back next time!! It wasn’t so busy when we visited but it can get very busy so booking is recommended. Love decor and atmosphere. Can’t wait to come back!

Delicious and absolutely worth the trip!

The food was flavorful and very well seasoned. The servers were kind and friendly, working as a team having taken our orders and bringing our food in a timely manner.

They serve proper Caribbean food: I would know being of Haitian descent. It was such a pleasant surprise and I really look forward to coming back upon my return to London.

Best part? Excellent prices. Great value for money.

This restaurant was wonderful. Excellent staff. We were seated properly and the Food was GREAT! I wish I had taken more photos as we ordered quite a bit. We do have plans to return. Recommended foods are their Mac and cheese, rice and peas including this salmon dish. Keep up the great work Cottons!!!

I’ve seen and heard mixed reviews about this particular branch but mainly good so I thought I’d give it a go.

My partner and I came here for dinner as it was local. We were greeted by a gentleman called Alex who to begin with was very friendly and attentive.

We ordered drinks (myself a bottle of wine) and lemonade and my partner ordered a cocktail, additionally we ordered starters (salt fish fritters and hot wings)

The drinks came out quite quickly as well as the starters which was good.

The salt fish fritters were mediocre. You basically get 3 small fishy balls of dough, they definitely were not authentic Caribbean salt fish fritters and overpriced for the size and lack of quality - do not recommend.

The hot wings were nice, cooked throughout, chicken was falling off the bone very tasty but again, overpriced. 3 wings for £7.

Drinks were great, my partner ordered The Killer Duppy in which it was so nice he ended up ordering 3/4.

My wine was ok. Ordered lemonade to add it as a spritzer and half way through my lemonade it was taken by a waiter, they didn’t even ask if I had finished it they just took it which I found weird.

Now onto the main course…

I ordered the curry mutton with rice and peas & coleslaw with a side dish of Mac & cheese.

The curried mutton was very unappealing to look at initially as it looked very runny but all in all, after eating it it was very delicious, the meat was tender, the rice and peas had gungopeas instead of red kidney which is what I prefer - overall very tasty. Coleslaw was nice and the Mac and cheese was very cheesy although I must say the portion size for the Mac and cheese is a joke. Even a baby would have a bigger portion size than that.

My partner ordered the jerk pork ribs and buttermilk chicken. Which included skin-on fries, Mac and cheese and jerk sauce.

In all honesty it didn’t look appealing in the slightest, his appetite completely went when the food came out, the chips tasted like they had been reheated, he took one bite into the buttermilk chicken strips or whatever they were and felt sick. The jerk sauce literally tasted shop bought, it’s like they just poured it out of a bottle and served it - not fresh at all. He didn’t even touch the ribs as his taste buds were so scarred from the dry buttermilk strips.

My partner could not finish his food due to the poor quality of his dish and I raised this to the waiter Alex and it was as though Alex went from being friendly to being annoyed within second. I said to Alex we’re not gonna pay for this food as he’s hardly touched it and Alex argued against it and said my partner had clearly touched it and that he’s only taking 50% off. It seemed as though he was more annoyed about losing money than the well-being of the customers. I didn’t argue against it and still paid half the price but took the service charge off which is something I never do.

After that, I felt as though Alex’s attitude had changed towards us, he went from being happy to stern, it definitely changed the atmosphere and made us feel uncomfortable. I even apologised to Alex and stated that I’m not meaning to be a pain but were gonna pay for something that’s hardly been touched and Alex just shrugged it off and carried on walking.

When we asked for an extra cocktail we waited longer than usual and I feel this is because of how annoyed Alex was. We then just decided to leave and asked Alex for the bill and he took forever to print off a simple piece of paper, taking his time to walk around and converse with people sitting right next to us knowing we were waiting.

Overall this gets 3/5 stars. My meal was ok. A bit overpriced for the portion sizes but the food tasted good. It was just the poor experience with how we were treated by Alex that’s left a poor taste in my mouth.

I must admit since getting home, I’ve felt quite sickly. Would we return? No.

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