Middlesex Street - Christopher Poole Review

MEAL PLATTER (whole chicken extra hot, PERi chips, side salad, 2 soft drinks- shared)
Cheese
Pineapple
Toasted Pitta
Perinaise
£22.40

PLACE: Table 4. The first thing that greets you in this Nando's is the mini lift- a proper otis lift that can take lazy people up a flight of 4 steps. The second thing is the low celling. The third is the separation of the ordering counter and kitchen which relinquishes the fun view from the ordering process. Nice chilli lights (see picture). Table 4 is a table with an OK view on Middlesex Street but has terrible back/belly space as you are very close to your lateral diners- 5/10

HOST: Marina, I think she was used to dealing with Liverpool Street bankers as she was very cold. She was polite but lacked that PERi-PERi passion. She also wouldn't stamp both of our cards and explained "even if you ordered £300, I could only give you one stamp". I guess she doesn't want to devalue the sacred stamp but it was a bit harsh considering she had already given us a lacklustre welcome- 5/10

FOOD: Skinny teenage chicken that needed a few more years out in the field (although I do think the meal platter does offer good value for small groups on a budget.) Not too spicy for extra hot and the pitta was glued together and hard to open. Only 2 baby tomatoes in the side salad and a huge halloumi mix up that resulted in my neighbouring table being delivered a single pineapple slice, whilst I got some rubbery halloumi cheese that I didn't order. This meant that my chicken got cold before my correct order arrived and I could start constructing my pitta and my lateral diners had two reasons to be annoyed with me with the wrong order and the constant chair back bumping. The ketchup bottles were ice cold and the chicken was lacking heat. Finished my meal with a luke-warm double espresso. 'Straunt just don't know what temp to put things at- 5/10