Reviews in Leeds and Yorkshire

Fabulous lunchtime meal with family and friends, well presented and delicious. Especially the “calamel” dessert…we will be back! Thanks again.

We found the staff very polite and the service good however we felt that the eggs Benedict was expensive for what was served. The cakes were delicious but also quite pricey. Quaint cafe .

The food was amazing, we had rib eye steak with peppercorn sauce, chips and onion rings as a side. The steak was just to die for. Lovely service and just all round great food! We will definitely be back.

Fabulous food; great atmosphere- would definitely recommend

Enjoyed our visit very much, will visit again

Staff very helpful , Afternoon Tea good Variety well presented , only one thing let it down is the Scones so hard maybe was not fresh !! I did ask for another one still the same very hard & microwaved ,

Booking made online, received confirmation & reminder which is always welcome. Lovely meal, varied choices with additional specials menu. Warmly welcomed, cosy comfortable setting, great place for birthday lunch. Excellent car parking facility.

Fab meal, delicious food, really good atmosphere

The food was nice but the pizza base was quite hard to cut. The pizza cutter that you got given didn’t cut anything so had to use a knife and fork.

Excellent food no complaints,enjoyed by all of my party.A great selection to choose from.Once finished there was no rush to get us to leave.

Taster menu was fantastic. The flavour combination for each course is a taste sensation. Would definitely recommend to a friend. Service was excellent and we will definitely be back for more.

What a little gem in the tiny village of Shelf. Superb food served in fantastic ways with bursts of flavour. The very best ingredients, great wines and excellent service. This should be on all the foodies bucket list. Cant wait to return

Went as a group of 6 at 5 pm the restaurant wasn't busy but we liked this the food was excellent and plenty of it the staff were all lovely and polite and had a really good banter with them will definitely be coming back

Always look forward to having a meal at Brooks! It never disappoints. You can taste the freshness of the food. The greeting is warm and we’re made to feel genuinely welcome

Great food and great atmosphere. Will visit again.

Excellent service and excellent food it was our sons 16th birthday so we took the family for the first time and they absolutely loved the whole atmosphere and food and said they will definitely be going back. Thank you for a wonderful evening. Our son is autistic and he even felt comfortable which is unusual as he struggles in busy places.

This was my first experience at Botafogo. The way it worked was explained clearly when we first got there and both staff members were very polite and patient as I got my head around the serving mechanics. All the food we had was delicious and I couldn't believe how beautifully cooked the beef shoulder was. I'm not normally a fan of beef but I would return just for that beef shoulder alone! The resturant was clean and welcoming, we were allowed to choose where we sat and the salad bar had lots of choice. I feel like I got my money's worth out of the £28 price tag but if I hadn't of been so hungry going in I might not have felt that way. I'd say it is the kind of place you have to go to feeling hungry.

Dreadful. A place where the marketing jargon is so outrageous that it is laughable. The website claims that 'guests are at the centre of Panda Mami; everything we do is designed to surpass expectations'. That didn't happen on Monday night, we certainly weren't the centre of anything, much of the food was lukewarm (at best) and sometimes mislabelled (crispy duck....no way was it crispy, breaded crab claws that had never had a whiff of the sea), some was bland and in the case of the carvery virtually non-existent. When I inquired why the only meat offered on the carvery was a scraggy end of gammon, the guy asked what I would like and when I said 'beef' he said there wasn't any. No apology, just 'there wasn't any'. When I re-iterated my complaint when paying the bill he admitted there wasn't only no beef joints, but there was no other joints of meat at all. Really? I hadn't realised York was the centre of a meat crisis. This hardly 'surpassed my expectations' and I didn't feel that, I the customer, was 'the centre of Panda Mami'. As for the temperature of the food, there were no local inspectors there to check, so any claims by the owner that it conformed to standards are probably wild of the mark. If there had been I doubt very much they would have passed. Sweets should have been fine, but ice cream was unavailable as a notice said the fridge wasn't functioning and there was another note on the cake cabinet warning customers to be cautious as they could be frozen because the temperature couldn't be controlled! In fact, they were fine, but when my wife and I tried a lime green concoction in a glass, we were mystified, it was so tasteless that we had no idea what on earth it was. Afterwards, I wondered whether Monday was quiz night and this particular offering was the tie-break question with the teams having to name the ingredients! When I saw the restaurant's maintenance man wrapping aluminium foil around the terminals of a heat-light bulb above the pizza counter in order to make it work it rather summed up the whole dreadful experience of a place where Health and Safety would have a field day. One blessing was that we weren't paying the full price of £22.99, it was York Restaurant Week so the deal was £15 each. So when the bill came to £41,40 and the only extras we had were a pint of Guinness and a half pint of Somersby cider (the two costing a staggering £11.40) I reckoned it helped them recoup the difference! I should have challenged it, but although it was a quiet night, we had already waited at least ten minutes to pay (the guy seemed to be struggling) and I had just about lost the will to live, all I wanted was the leave the restaurant as quickly as possible and never to return.