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New brands from the JKS Restaurants team include Plaza Khao Gaeng, a southern Thai restaurant; Hero Indian Fast Food, serving up North Indian street food classics; and Middle Eastern shawarma kitchen Shatta & Toum. There is also American diner-style food at Manna; Indonesian street food from Bebek!Bebek!; day-to-night deli Arcade Provisions; Japanese sushi and omakase experience from Sushi Kamon and Nepali street food from Tipan Tapan. There is also the Benham & Froud Jelladrome from dessert connoisseurs Bompas & Parr.
Harden's says
A new, very grown-up style of food hall for central London; this "food hall" on the ground floor of Centre Point has seven kitchens, three bars, a coffee shop and bakery, an outdoor terrace and an "incubation-focused space showcasing some of the city’s most exciting and emerging culinary concepts". Brands at the launch were: Lina Stores, Pophams, TU by TA-TA Eatery, Pastorcito, Le Bab, Flat Iron Workshop, Casita Do Frango and Chotto by Chotto Matte.
Harden's survey result
Summary
A “useful pitstop for a quick bite while out in the West End” – this food hall at the foot of Centre Point is, say fans, “so much better than similar places where there’s a disorganised queue for food”: here, “you order on your phone from your table, and a waiter brings your food from whichever stall you have picked”. As for the food, “the variety is great” from some high-quality names, “but the quality is less consistent” – and “the noise can be just too much”. Similar feedback too on its year-old, 500-seat sibling at Battersea Power Station, whose 13 different brands “provide great choice but are quite pricey”. Backers the all-conquering JKS Restaurants look like they are onto a commercial winner in both places, but (inevitably?) neither site has lived up to the fooderati hype that’s accompanied both launches.
Summary
As a “buzzy venue for the young, after-work crowd”, this JKS Restaurants food court at the foot of Centre Point does have its fans, who feel that as a “cheap ’n’ cheerful” option it’s “phenomenal, with such a great variety of street food to try all under one roof – ideal for big groups”. Ratings are undercut, though, by those who just find it “very noisy”, “pricey” and “average”. (In July 2023, JKS launched a second Arcade in the new Battersea Power Station complex, mixing brands from the original together with a new selection of offerings.)
Summary
The food court in the landmark Centrepoint building by Tottenham Court Road station was relaunched by JKS Restaurants under a new, tightly curated format and with new outlets in early summer 2022, after two years of off-and-on trading during the pandemic. It now offers American, Middle Eastern, Indian, Nepali, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Spanish food options, along with a jelly & ice cream bar and several booze outlets – with between them six negroni or five G&T options, among others. Everything is listed on one centralised menu, so you can mix and match without slogging around – and queuing up at – a succession of individual stalls.
Summary
After a bit of a false start, JKS restaurants are to resuscitate their food court offering by Centrepoint in November 2021. Originally it opened about eight months before the pandemic, and never really found its mojo. The new format still incorporates eight different kitchens, but there is to be a novel streamlined ordering system allowing dishes from multiple kitchens in a single order. All this plus various other innovations, such as a new counter for coffee, sarnies and cakes.
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Arcade Food Hall Restaurant Diner Reviews
"Good choice of options however tend to gravitate to the same ones over time. Service using the app is fine although you lose the element of human touch"
"This food hall allows you to order from your table, on your phone, and a waiter brings your food to you, from whichever street food stall you have picked. You are shown to a table too and it is all so much better than the disorganised queueing for food at similar food halls. My Nepalese street food was fine. Its speedy service and central location make it a useful place for a pitstop or quick dinner while out in the West End. Bar area serving happy hour beers and cocktails was busy."
Prices
 Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £20.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £3.00 |
 Extras |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | 11:30 am‑10:30 pm |
| Wednesday | 11:30 am‑10:30 pm |
| Thursday | 11:30 am‑10:30 pm |
| Friday | 11:30 am‑10:30 pm |
| Saturday | 11:30 am‑10:30 pm |
| Sunday | 11:30 am‑9:30 pm |
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