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Chain restaurant in [[Locale Kensington|Kensington]]. [[John]] et al. visited on a Saturday lunchtime in November 2012. We arrived at about noon and there was no queue, so we were seated immediately. We visited again on a Saturday evening in November 2013, between 6:30pm and 8:15pm. Again, there was no queue (unlike the <a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Giraffe,_SW1V_1JZ">Victoria branch</a>), and about half of the tables were empty. The staff were all very friendly. When someone knocked over a drink by accident, they rushed over to clean it up, and replaced it with a new one free of charge without even being asked. There are a few vegetarian options on the menu, including the "veggie brunch" (served until 4pm). That's basically a fried breakfast, but it also includes aubergine which you don't normally get at a greasy spoon cafe. They have free wireless, supplied by <a href="http://www.thecloud.net/">The Cloud</a>, so you need to register an account to use it. There aren't any prominent announcements about this in the restaurant so just scan for local networks. Child-friendliness: This is a very child-friendly restaurant. On our November 2012 visit (with a 5 year old), the staff immediately brought over a set of crayons and an activity sheet before they even mentioned orders. There's a children's menu, and the child's food came first: that's useful because children normally eat more slowly than adults (and find it harder to wait when they're hungry). The child's drink came with a plastic giraffe, and the restaurant offered a helium balloon to take away at the end of the meal. There's a baby changing facility on the ground floor. On our November 2013 visit (with a 4 year old and a 6 year old) we phoned ahead to reserve a table: they asked on the phone about the number of children and whether we needed high chairs, then set aside a booth for us which already had activity sheets and crayons laid out when we arrived. Accessibility: Step free access to the front half of the restaurant, then a couple of steps to get up to the bar and the back half. Toilets are downstairs, and there's a bit of a maze to get to the male toilets. <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[John]], November 2013.</div>
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