Debbie's Reviews

Zero is the perfect name for this restaurant. Because that is the rating I give it. We were ‘greeted’ by a grumpy old waitress in a dirty T-shirt and told they didn't open for another 10 minutes. And because there were no tables available outside to sit and have a drink we'd just have to wait in the ‘bar area’ – minus drinks. We had a child with us and specifically said six plus a child seat, only to be shown to a table for six minus child seat (we don't do them) – or extra chair to replace it.

Same waitress came and took our order – food order – no drinks yet – minus charm but plus chewing gum. There's nothing more appealing than placing your food order with a smacking gum accompaniment. Still no drinks order taken – we had to ask. Twice. My fellow diner had requested a lager top and was presented with a ‘Stell-urr’ – when she asked if it was a top she got an indignant ‘yuuuh’.

Food arrived – another zero. I think the only person ‘happy’ was the child we'd requested a seat for – but he's 2 and a half and would eat anything. Given his was a ‘starter portion’ it still only had only 2 bite size bits of chicken in the pasta sauce – I'm guessing a main would've gotten 4? The tagliatelle salmon was very much erring towards a starter portion with what looked like tinned salmon. A lasagne arrived cremated. Another tagliatelle arrived soaked in oil with an apology of ‘bolognese sause’. The panchetta on a pizza looked like shredded raw bacon and was inedible. The side order of chips looked like a poor-man's McDonalds minus the supersize. The only meal that seemed OK was a pizza maragarita. And it's almost impossible to ruin one of those. Oh – and there was a bug in the salad.

We'd already decided not to pay service (what for?!) but then, when the bill was brought to the table the waiter (different yet similarly unenthusiastic), literally, to the point of personal space invasion, stood over me with chip and pin machine at the ready. I guess when the ‘are you finished with the… More