King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

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• Average price 2 courses:
   £8 (lunch)
   £8 (evening meal)
• House wine: £11 per bottle

• High point: Good buzz, even at lunchtime
• Low point: Limited range of desserts
• Food served: Mon–Fri noon–2.30pm, 5–8pm; Sat 5–8pm. Closed Sun
• Bar open: Mon–Sat noon–midnight; Sun 6pm–midnight (show nights only)
• Private dining: F
• Open since: 1990
• Also offers: Vegetarian options (at least 25% of main courses), Pre-theatre menu
• Opening times: Mon-Sat 12.00-12am; Sun 6.00-12am

This review appears in the The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008
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While it's famous as the place to hear many of the best up-and-coming bands, King Tut's is just as adept at feeding and watering the local office population. The basement bar, featuring worn wooden tables around the walls – themselves a gallery of poster art advertising forthcoming gigs – is busy at lunch and dinner with suits and audiophiles of various ages tucking into well-filled baked potatoes, burgers, pastas and Tex-Mex fare such as burritos and crisp-skinned potato wedges. Laden with chilli beef and cheddar, the latter are enough for a light lunch, though you could also opt for a well-balanced warm chicken and bacon caesar salad or a peppery broccoli and parmesan soup. A Spanish burger is given just enough interest by some chorizo and is served with crisp skinny fries and leaf salad in a balsamic dressing. While the fruit pudding may resemble its Christmas cousin it's light and moist, but accompanied by a sinful, sweetened cream. In the evening the menu is shorter and has more things to share, including the 'Weegie Batter Sharer Platter' – featuring fish fingers, cajun wedges, onion rings and garlic bread – which, unsurprisingly, is not listed as a healthy option.