Vivat Bacchus Farringdon - London

Let down by the atmosphere. The food's pretty good the crocodile spring rolls were interesting but the downstairs restaurant is absolutely lifeless unless it's packed, and when that happens the service staff disappear. wine was, as you'd expect, good but pricey.

Cheese with red wine was the order of the day so I'd booked us a table at Vivat Bacchus a bustling South African-owned restaurant in Farringdon. Although it serves a great selection of main meals (apparently the pies are amazing) it's the cheese boards, platters and huge range of wines and champagnes that creates the real winning formula. We decided upon the French cheese board consisting of Fourme d'Ambert, honey-drizzled Comte, Coulommiers and Reblochon served with biscuits, delicious chutneys, fruit and nuts. To accompany, we ordered the French and South African platters which provided us with Bayonne ham, saucisson sec, pork rillettes, cornichons, sourdough, biltong, droewors...read more

Since my first visit to Vivat Bacchus in December last year, I have been to the London Bridge branch several more times for catch up with friends over cheese and wine...

Sorry, Vivat Baccus. Your wine may be great, but your efforts with the burger are not from the DIY approach to building the burger, to the cooking of the beef, and the pungent garlic aoili the chefs need to go back to basics and make that rarebreed beef sing and have confidence in constructing the burger rather than leaving the toppings on the plate.

I have always connected vivat bacchus with customer entertainment. it seemed like the kind of place to take suits, attorneys types, or any carnivorous person for a little visit card earning. When I got a invite to try her Farringdon branch, I called b for the microphone key. with roots from South Africa is known vivat bacchus for their grilled meats, wee and cheese.