Refreshingly for a buzzy new London restaurant, Six Portland Road is "not trying to ride the zeitgeist", but is instead all about "simple, classic, pleasingly yester-year charm", says Grace Dent in the London Evening Standard.
"There is no glitz, no cutting-edge cool", says Time Out, "just a long lean room where the food does all the talking".
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