Selection of Recent Reviews

Middleton Restaurant The - Leicester, Leicestershire

Paulloseby - 03-03-2010

Please do not go to this BRILLIANT RESTAURENT as it is my favourite place and I want to be able to get in. It is in a beautiful 400 year old farmhouse with a roaring fire in the lounge. The whole place is spotless and the food is 5 star. There is a lovely choice of foods and it has always been cooked exactly to my wife and I's tastes. The atmosphere is lovely and the excellent staff are polite, efficient and friendly. So this is a request for you not to visit this restaurant as you will not fail to be impressed and then it may make it more difficult for us to get in next time. A FABULOUS PLACE TO VISIT AND EAT Paul Loseby

Godots Bar Brasserie - Marlborough, Wiltshire

mathew - 01-03-2010

Hmmmm. Nice atmosphere, but gets very noisy later on as you're all packed in quite tight. Food okay - nice but almost too much of it? - I had to leave some which is a first for me? However, expensive for what it is, service was bad - reaching across the table to pick up glasses, cutlery etc - one time hitting my girlfriend in the face as the waitress did it. But the most annoying thing was being presented with the bill with an "optional" 10% service charge already added on to it - and this is still added on when you get the card machine to pay - you can't take it off unless you want to make a scene by handing the machine back to the staff - this alone will mean that I won't be returning.

Ricks Restaurant - Belfast, County Antrim

lisasp1ce - 26-02-2010

Tasty food at very reasonable prices. Staff are great; very friendly and attentive. Great offers on like early bird and Monday "2 for 1". Definitely recommended- especially for lunch and dessert!

Bengal Berties - London, London North

Tootiki - 26-02-2010

My only experience of BB has been ordering a home delivery so maybe the restaurant experience of their food is different. Although it shouldn't be. A Chana Dhal that was so bland they could have just tipped a can of chickpeas into a pan and warmed it up a bit. Where was the onion, the lemon, the SPICES? Conversely, the Chicken Chat nearly scorched my tongue. Not a great idea to anaethetise your tongue before the rest of the meal. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE chillie heat but when it obliterates all the other spices in the dish then it's couldn't-care-less cooking. The main course had chicken pieces that were all evenly shaped, like building blocks and had a spongey texture. Again, someone tipped the chilli powder pot in. The pilau rice was crunchy. Sorry Bertie, I won't be ordering again. I love Indian food, but not like this :-(

QARMA TANDOORI - Leek, Staffordshire

Leekite - 24-02-2010

This place really is surprising. Hidden away from the main road due to it's own private car park I noticed the subtle sign on the edge of the wall a few weeks ago. A very interesting logo and name for an Indian restaurant. As soon as you walk in you are enveloped with sheer class and opulence. It is a fantastic integration of traditional with modern contemporary design. After being escorted to the lounge area, we were seated and looking through the vast menu provided to us, me and the partner were engrossed with the contents of the menu. What we immediately noticed was the attention to detail of the descritpions as well the constant reminder of the desired authenticity of the food that Qarma are trying to provide. Once seated in nice luxurious surroundings, the food arrived promptly which took the whole experience to anew level - one word - WOW!! very different to any other food we have tasted and I feel will taste as we live so far away from Leek. There were no desserts menu - as the maitre'd explained everything is fresh and whatever we have and can produce we will do - both of us had cinnamon pear with fresh mango ice cream - again a fantastic creation and a great end to the night.

Thrapston Tandoori - Kettering, Northamptonshire

DerekLThomas - 15-02-2010

We have been regulars at this curry house for over 20 years. It is by far the best of the hundreds of curry restaurants we have visited and very good value.

Ristorante Berardi - Kettering, Northamptonshire

lindajb - 14-02-2010

this was my second visit to this restaurant because the first visit was so lovely. unfortunately this time my partner and i had booked a romantic valentines meal for two and we got seated upstairs in a room with fourteen teenagers celebrating a 16th birthday, they were noisy and we felt it was more like a cafe on a sat afternoon. We had our meal but my main meal was delivered to me totally different to what i had ordered and when i asked the waitress she argued that it was correct. she got the manager who said it was incorrectly written on the menu and apologised and offered us both a drink or a dessert on the house. We accepted the drink and paid £51 for our meals and left. We felt so let down and disappointed and said we will never go back. this was a lot of money for a lot of disappointment.

Shoreline Restaurant - Paignton, Devon

zoecarrjones - 13-02-2010

Shoreline has the most wonderful views and on first impressions seems very attractive but the food was inedible and unacceptably poor. It was quiet, just a few table taken. We were eventually served after 20 minutess waiting and after a further 30 minutes the food arrived. The homemade lasange was obviously days old and warmed through. It was dry, burnt on top and inedibled, I couldn't cut into it had become so solid. The accompany coldsaw was a bad shade of yellow and tasted fizzy. My husband ordered a pie which came with carrots covered in a film of slim, it was extorinary, as you picked up the carrots there was what could only be described as a line of something similar ot flem which stretched between the plate and fork .... my daughter has 'homemade burger', I'd insisted she had this instead than chicken nuggets, and when she moaned about its flavour and texture I was unsympathetic until I tried it myself .. i'm pretty hardy and not usually fussy but this burger was so bad I couldn't eat the mouthful I'd taken.

Heskyn Mill Restaurant - Saltash, Cornwall

Wordsmith - 13-02-2010

Just been to Heskyn Mill and had a wonderfully surreal evening's entertainment. Tony the owner is fantastic in that he has no idea how to run a restaurant, no really, it's so bad it's funny. David Brent meets the Soprano's. One liner's from Del Boy and Rodney, or maybe Paul Calf. A bit of Basil Fawlty thrown in too. We waited for jeremy Beadle to arrive and say it's all been a joke, but no, we sit here confused and dazed, maybe it's post-traumatic Heskyn disorder. So, you really must go - £95 for two rounds of bland pub food at best. We considered complaining but we just knew he wouldn't understand. It started with us ordering a Rusty Nail and the barman saying he'd never heard of it, Then Tony taking my jacket but leaving it on the back of a chair with the classic line 'it'll be OK there nobody'll nick it or nuffink'. Then he asks to take our order but starts by saying 'I've lost my bloody glasses'. The table was situated under a massive iron mill wheel that you had to limbo under/around to get to the table, as did the waiter/waitress, you couldn't make it up nobody would believe you. Carrot and Coriander soup arrived as we sat down, I knew it was Carrot & Coriander because it said so on the menu, not because it tasted of it. We asked the waitress if we could have some wine she said 'yeah what do you want' - she's been on Tony's waitress course I thought to myself , perhaps it's called 'Tony's F*****g interpersonal skills & f*****g Customer Service' course'. Tony brought the wine menu and proclaimed ''you'll have to tell me the number of it'. Then he knelt down to adjust the wonky table leg and said 'it's alright I'm not proposing to her' and when I left to go to the toilet he said 'you got out of there like a gazelle'. Ricky Gervais modelled David Brent on this guy surely? Some people then sent their steak back because nobody asked how they wanted it cooked. Wonderful. A bit of Fawlty Towers that one. The garlic musrooms were a contradiction in terms in that they only looked like garlic mushrooms rather than tasted like them. The cod was so fresh that it was still swimming, albeit in a lake of mushroom sauce. I'm no Sherlock homes but when my sweet arrived I could tell that the chef clearly had a heavy cold, the sorbet was surrounded by some sort of compote around the edges of the plate which clearly had been sneezed there. Beats dabbing it arististically eh! Get this one - ME: 'can I have my coat please' Basil Fawlty/David Brent: 'Yes here it is, blimey that's heavy, what's in it a body?' Presumably a small but heavy body that'll fit in your coat pocket then? The whole surreal experience took 90 minutes for 4 courses, faster than KFC I reckon. We laughed all the way home. I've eaten out in restaurants for years, this was the worst meal I've ever had, but also the most entertaining. The owner Tony IS David Brent because he has NO self awareness but clearly thinks he offers a great experience, putting his hand on my shoulder at the end and saying 'thanks mate'. Priceless. At the end of the day how much would you pay for truly crap food and a rip off of a bill at the end, but great entertainment? Me, I'm just off to bang my head against the wall repeatedly just to make sure it all did really happen. Never again.

Darby Digger Harvester - Wickford, Essex

UncleBarbar - 12-02-2010

I have to admit that my experience of this pub today was excellent. We went in on a Friday lunchtime and the food was really good - hot and plenty of it. There was plenty of meat and as much veg as you wanted. The people were nice and the carvery ridiculously cheap at £3.59!! BARGAIN!! Maybe it isn't so good in teh evening if they run out of food but at lunchtime it's a great place for a meal - and no waiting! We were in and out within 40 minutes. Recommended!