The Eagle, Clerkenwell

4 out of ten. Place is ruined by the staff and service. The food is good for gastropub grub but the service is appalling. We were told that we could not order a well done steak, even though the chef/cook chap said it would be ok the bar girl ignored us. I waited for 5 minutes at an empty bar to place a drink order whilst the same bar girl had a stand up argument with a colleague. The chap that was serving the food and dishing out the cutlery gave us 2 forks and a spoon between 6 of us, and 5 limp peices of bread in a wicker basket. He then brought an order of fish to our table, we told him that no-one had ordered the fish, he then said "well someone had ordered the fish from this table" and plonked it down. I politely said again that we were not having fish, he muttered something under his breath (I don't think it was an apology) and took it away. The food came in intervals, so that 2 of our party had almost finished when the last plate was brought out.

Finally when it came to pay the bill was littered with double orders and I was accused of lying by the same bar girl as above.

Just not good enough for a popular central london eatery.

5 Feb 2009 13:55