Meat Co

American Restaurant in Shepherd's Bush
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4 / 10 from 2 reviews
Address
Unit 1026
Westfield London
Ariel Way
Shepherd's Bush
London
W12 7GA
Map
Telephone
020 8749 5914
Cuisine
American
Nearest Station
Wood Lane
0.12 miles
Opening Summary
Opening hours: 7 days a week
Monday – Saturday 11am – midnight (last orders at 11:30pm)
Sunday 11am – 11pm (last orders at 10:30pm)
Restaurant Facilities

Disabled Facilities

Children Welcome

Credit Cards Accepted

Music Played

Private Area

Outdoor Area

Booking Advisable

Leveraging off the African heritage, The Meat & Wine Co’s design and décor reflects an eclectic combination of colour, texture and custom made oversized elements to create a sense of theatre for diners.

Steak that is a cut above... is what The Meat & Wine Co is world renowned for. Prime cuts of superior quality beef, perfectly aged, then grilled to perfection. Only premium quality meat is carefully selected and matured according to precise brand standards, then basted and grilled on an open flame to seal in the flavours, ensuring a juicy and succulent taste experience each and every time. There is something for everyone including a selection of seafood, poultry and vegetarian options too.

A towering display of wine is the signature feature of all The Meat & Wine Co restaurants worldwide. This restaurant’s visually inspiring tower of New World Wine, stands 10.5 meters tall. A number of other display cases around the restaurant add to the impressive wine selection on offer.

All In London Review

Meat Co serves up super-sized portions

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The theme at Meat Co, aside from the meat, is size. This South African steakhouse with branches in expat haven Dubai has its only UK site in the Westfield shopping centre in White City. As with all the other restaurants at this mammoth retail centre, it’s huge, with very high ceilings, and sprawls over two floors. The decor is flashy in a luxury-holiday-in-the-Gulf sort of way, with rows of wine bottles used to create lofty walls.

A starter of boerewors, the famous South African beef sausage shaped into a spiral, would be better off as a main, as it’s served on a sizeable polenta cake with tomato relish. The sausage itself is a little on the plain side, not so the roast bone marrow, which is extremely oily and rich, served on two giant bones fit for a Great Dane.

Main courses are good. King prawns and chunks of beef on a hanging skewer have a flavoursome, lightly spiced marinade and are nicely charred. The rib eye on the bone has plenty of marbling providing flavour, we try it with a very decent blue cheese and vodka sauce. Of the sides the creamed spinach is a little bland, but we like the thin crispy onion rings and the chunky chips.

Desserts are worth trying if you like hefty portions of gloopy cake. There’s a very sinful peanut butter cheese cake with dark chocolate sauce, and the ‘Madiba Charity Malva Pudding’ (so-called because a percentage of the price goes to charity), deemed to be Nelson Mandela’s favourite, is a super-syrupy version of sticky toffee pudding.

Prices are a little on the steep side, particularly for a restaurant in a shopping centre (the prawn and beef skewer is £28, the rib eye £45), but Meat Co is popular; on the Wednesday night we visit there are two birthday parties in attendance.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Jun 23, 2014


User Reviews

Anonymous

Jan 21, 2010

I ate here with a friend fully expecting to have a good meal. Instead what we got was that we found our waitress a bit too familiar, too chatty when what we really wanted was a chance to catch up with each other as we don't often get the chance to meet up. Still, that was something we could have overlooked but possibly as a result of her being hell bent on telling us her life story she managed to get our order wrong.

Instead of offering to correct this, (it was I think the mixed starter), and getting us the right food, this was ignored by her when we pointed it out.

From that moment she became decidedly less chatty - she seemed to take particular umbrage with me as she wouldn't even look me in the eye - and the service was to say the least intermittent. When, after we had finished our main course and found ourselves at a table with no food or drink on it for several minutes we took the hint and ended our meal early.

As for the quality of the food, we found the mixed starter to be, well of mixed quality and the main we had was the Springbok. Diners ordering it that like venison will be disappointed.

over all an extremely bad experience and as there are so many restaurants at that location I would strongly suggest you try one of them instead.
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