The Great Court At The British Museum

We were going to the New Year's Eve lunch at BM with some shyness. There were a lot of visitors and customers. A table was found for us very quickly. The menu is not extensive but it's easy to choose something for yourself. The service is quick and kind. The kitchen delivers the order quickly. Everything beautifully presented and tasty. To be honest, we left the restaurant fully satisfied and full. Thank you for a wonderful meal and we wish the chefs and staff a Happy New Year.

The hostess was far from friendly, luckily the waitresses were nice. We were told the only option is the afternoon tea when we arrived, while other guests arriving after us got to order form the menu. Our guess is that the hostess wanted us to decide to not come in because we were with a baby, but we cannot be sure of course. We agreed to the afternoon tea, but that was very disappointing as well. The only lovely thing on it was the scones. The sandwiches were very dry, like bread you leave out for a day or two and were not especially tasty either. The cakes lacked any particular flavour beside being sweet and they brought out the 4 teas in 2 tea cans that had 2 and 2 filters in each... Not too elegant after ordering 4. It has potential to being nice, but it has to improve.

Had the afternoon tea here with my 6 year old son. The lady in charge was amazing! I had emailed the evening nieces and she had organised a table for us and a special tea with different sandwiches as he is really fussy. Food was great and enough for two to share with left overs. He also loved the fresh lemonade. Highly recommend

Food very average , service was terrible. The young lady who was serving us had no idea what to do , she didn't speak clearly so was difficult to hear, offered no response to our requests and was clearly in need of instruction in regards to how to deal with other humans. My wife is gluten free and the choice is very limited on a limited menu. We have been before some years ago and it was great, not sure what's happened but improvementnis required as it was the best part of £90 for lunch for two adults and a child.

Booked the afternoon tea as all other hotels etc serving were fully booked. Sandwich bread was dry, like they had been made in the morning and sat there all day waiting to be served. You really can't make sandwiches fresh? Not that hard. Absolute shocker. Scones are served cold but at least were edible. Didn't even try the sweets but they probably aren't fresh either. Not worth the £30 pp charge. Go elsewhere for afternoon tea.