there's a whole website on it!
http://www.papagenorestaurant.com/
gives a map of how to get there to, under "contact us"
2007-01-13 02:19:28
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answered by monkeynuts 5
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It is in Covent Garden. Here is my review.
I have excuses. We’d been to the ballet, it was a bank holiday and the Pizza Express was closed. Moreover, the next three places we tried were all also shutting early at 10:30 due to the bank holiday. My wife Stella was ravenously hungry, and it looked like if we didn’t find somewhere fast she would hunt down a passing pedestrian. Only this type of desperation would cause me to go into a place that just exudes “tourist trap” from its every pore. Outside was a talking Santa. The restaurant was themed – around, appropriately, the opera, yet was not Italian, but vaguely Turkish. Not obviously a Turkish menu, but Turkish décor (velvet tablecloths, frilly dishcloth napkins, little lamps), a suspicion confirmed when pitta bread arrived with the menu. I’ll say now that the pitta bread was warm and edible, overcooked so it was too hard, but edible if you were hungry enough. What followed was the kind of food that only occurs in nightmares: a “grilled chicken with garlic” turned out to be a scraggy bit of chicken fillet that was cooked for so long that it would need carbon dating to figure out its age, and reheated so that every conceivable drop of moisture was removed from it. If you just put a chicken breast in the Sahara desert and waited a few weeks, it would look like this chicken breast. The garlic was not some quaint chicken Kiev idea, such a few bits of diced garlic sprinkled on top. There was some limp green coloured item that was presumably intended as a parody of a salad. There were olives, though not good ones, and a peculiar little pot containing some odd selection of diced vegetables that, on reflection, seemed just to be the topping for a pot noodle that someone had heated up. Stella went for a pasta dish, and the pasta, while lukewarm, was not actively hostile but merely lacklustre, the tomato sauce tasteless. I have a weakness for chips, yet the side order of chips that appeared lacked utterly any taste, and reached a rare level of sogginess that presumably is the goal of prison food. There was Turkish beer, but that, other than the occasionally burnt and hard pitta bread which nonetheless shone like a beacon of culinary achievement, to say about the place. Oh, and they left the credit card slip open.
2007-01-13 10:59:47
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answered by wyahaw 2
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Papageno restaurant itself is situated 29-31 Wellington Street - London WC2E 7DB in the Strand area. Tel 0207 836 4444.There is a set menu served at £23.50 0r a menu a la carte where the price varies , a tenor menu at £12.50 ...but there may be changes over the New Year. Please enquire.
Also their sister restaurant in 126 Drury Lane London WC2 Holborn - Covent Garden area Tel 0207 836 0101.
There is also a children's menu , a wine list where the price range differs from £13.50 a bottle to £85 or more...Also there may be a service charge added to your bill!
I cannot tell about the quality of the food served as I have never been there myself. Anyhow if you contemplate of visiting them , I cannot endorse any recommendation.
2007-01-14 06:56:35
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answered by raj k 3
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