The food itself was of good quality; that’s the only positive about our otherwise disastrous birthday celebration.
When a booking is made for evening opening time and multiple dishes have been booked and paid for in advance one would expect to not have to wait...an inordinate amount of time for food to arrive, although the waiting staff were very quick to take and deliver drinks orders…
We were a large birthday celebration party of about 15 people, arriving exactly as the place opened and numerous dishes had been ordered in advance for the group to share. I’m sorry to say this ‘restaurant’ didn’t have a clue. The waiting staff seemed very young and inexperienced. After a long wait one small bowl of food was served at one end of the long thin table so that once 2 or 3 people had taken a portion there was nothing left for anyone else. There was then a delay of at least 10 minutes and another small bowl of some other dish was served exactly the same way. And after this had happened several times they brought out the crispy aromatic duck (fortunately there was enough of this to go round, but then plenty had been ordered) and later the same system of bringing out a single dish at intervals was resumed.
Ludicrous.
The reason no complaint was made at the time was that the person whose birthday it was didn’t want to make a fuss for fear of being embarrassed.
One would think that if a party of people are attending and numerous dishes to share have been arranged in advance a restaurant would have the sense to bring the dishes out at the same time to the table so everyone can choose at the same time.
This could have been done with the starter dishes, then the crispy aromatic duck, then the main courses.
Sadly the portion sizes are very small here as well. Some of our party stayed on to order more food, and one of those was still so hungry when they left that they had to buy more food on the way home.
And although I informed our ‘waiter’ on arrival that it was a special birthday no special acknowledgment was given at all. I have been here before when they did add to the occasion; but as I’ve already mentioned, they didn’t have a clue this time around.More