Curve

12-04-2009
Roger Wilsher  0 

Everyone involved with this towering monument to the worst restaurants in the UK should be ashamed of what they have managed to create and have the gall to maintain!
Seriously overpriced, second-rate food cooked by unmotivated chefs and served by half-hearted, badly trained waiting staff, in a venue reminiscent of the worst kind of modern motorway service area or cheap travelling salesman's hotel breakfast room.
Over £22 for a rib-eye steak and a handful of McCain's chips?!?! £12 for a starter of three limp scallops, a couple of slivers of hardly cooked bacon (purporting to be pork belly) and a smear of pea puree!?!? How dare they?
It was supposed to be a celebration of my wife's birthday - to make up I will now be taking her out to much nicer, better value places for the rest of the week.

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30-06-2006
MyVillage

Long gone are the days of chain hotel restaurants as places where you scoff down your paid for breakfast as quickly as possible and get out, scuffing your nice shoes on the electrically charged school library style carpets before you get hit by a scrambled egg missile from one of the screaming babies sure to be in there. The stylishly named Curve (what? No La Brasserie or Auberge?) is the new bar/restaurant of the Marriott West India Quay and is as far away from your usual hotel restaurant as it can be. Curve still retains the low prices and the convenience but has all the coolness of the New York loft style bars that are so popular around the E14 postcode. With fantastic views over the Docklands and Canary Wharf this is rather a picturesque and sophisticated escape from the hustle and bustle of city life, just the place to enjoy a martini after work.While the look and feel of Curve is very modernist, all clean lines and stone floors the menu is warm and hearty. Local ingredients (such as fresh fish from Billingsgate Market) are used to make large, good value dishes with an American twist � rib eye steaks sit alongside john dory served with boston blue potato, starters such as clam chowder are complimented with puddings along the lines of the wonderful Curve chocolate tower. All are served up by immaculately uniformed staff, politely and efficiently.Curve is full to bursting in the afternoons with business people taking time out from their hectic schedules of buying and selling stock or writing up terribly important news while in the evening the locals come out to enjoy a wonderful cocktail list and a choice of continental beers and lagers. So forget everything you think you know about these type of venues and give Curve a go.