{"id":865,"date":"2009-06-10T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=865"},"modified":"2020-10-09T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:55:37","slug":"the-ivy-a-list-or-z-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"The Ivy &#8211; A list or Z list?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Celebrity hang out? I am not convinced. I have been here twice now and if you do spot anyone familiar, it\u00a0is pretty much a Z lister. Then again I have not really been there on the\u00a0popular nights. It was so hard to get a table, we just took what we could get.\u00a0 To guarantee a table, you may have to book 3 months in advance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0467.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-870\" title=\"IMGP0467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0467-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0467\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0467-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0467-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0467.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0469.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-871\" title=\"IMGP0469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0469-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0469\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0469-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0469-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP0469.JPG 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The venue is not pretentious, it&#8217;s actually very cosy, a bit of a refuge\u00a0from all the hustle and bustle of theatre land. The food is surprisingly simple and Italian in influence. It is not cheap, but neither is it rip off prices. I particularly enjoyed the honeycomb ice cream desert.<\/p>\n<p>They layout of tables is very good for people watching, no facing the wall for the Gents in this venue. On one visit, we were entertained by the chap at the next table (who had obviously just got back from a holiday in Spain) repeatedly shouting \u00a1HOLA! to get the waiters attention, the amusing part was when his girlfriend got up to go to the loo, and did not return!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity hang out? I am not convinced. I have been here twice now and if you do spot anyone familiar, it\u00a0is pretty much a Z lister. Then again I have not really been there on the\u00a0popular nights. It was so hard to get a table, we just took what we could get.\u00a0 To guarantee a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ivy &#8211; A list or Z list?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[480,7,8],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-spotting","category-london","category-uk","tag-the-ivy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28698,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/28698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}