Reviews in Manchester

I only write this as Sam & his team deserve every credit for superb food and good service. They have created a varied menu, daring to include more unusual dishes as well as the normal crowd pleasers, to delightful gastronomic effect.They appear to really care about good food and the result is quality on the plate believe me.

we arrived at 1630 and opted for the meze, for my wife and i and the set menu between ,the 2 kids. my eldest was able to share with us. the waiter was 100% attentive and knew what dips (can't think of the correct term) went with each main. the food was just superb, tasty and varied. finished with the figs and cheesecake - fab

Can you please send me a list of Christmas dinner on my email, Need to know what foods list for Christmas dinner on December 2008

Enjoyed an excellent lunch recently at The Swinging Bridge restaurant. Food delicious and also not over expensive. Can't wait to go again. Kath and Keith

Been many times....always excellent freshly cooked food and good service, reasonably priced and gets our vote as consistently the best restaurant in the city.... spicy salsa the best anywhere

I would just like to say its been a long time since iv been to such a lovely pub! the food was exceptional as were the cask ales, not badly priced either. and the service from the young girls was also very pleasant. but i have to say that one thing let our whole experience down... the so called manager she was rude, scruffy and down right lazy which was a shame because other than that i would rate it 5 ***** and over all lovely pub.

We went here for my birthday the other day - a group of 24 people. They were happy to let us have the table all evening, the service was great and friendly, we had the a la carte menu so we could cater for various diets/food allergies, but the kitchen coped magnificently despite the restaurant being very busy. Everyone commented on how lovely the food was, how good the service was, how good the atmosphere was. We all had a great time. And I found the chairs comfortable (nice as I have a bad back and some Italian restaurants go for those uncomfortable wooden ones). 5*.

Went last month, shocking service, there was a table of 10 next to us on the verge of walking out due to the appalling service. overpriced food and not much choice on the menu. there's much better restaurants around and far, far cheaper, Mr Gallimore should stick to fish and chips

Had a meal here the other day and it was great. The food was very good, the service was excellent and the staff were very friendly and cheerful. They provided a high chair for my 2yr old daughter who loved the attention she got from the staff. I have to say the presentation is 5 * and I will be making it my regular curry eating haunt from now on....... PS the prices are very reasonable too!

we went to rigalettos on the 26/09/08 for my wife's birthday the food was reasonable but the service was diabolical a complete disgrace we waited an eternity for our main meal then when we finally got the sweet menu we waited another twenty five minutes but still no one came to take our order so we got up to pay our bill which we waited another ten minutes to pay when i complained about the service to the manager we got no apology just told they were busy. found it funny that a certain millionaire businessman and his group of friends had swarms of staff running after them

Went in the summer, Friday night @ 5pm. Good job we booked beforehand, the place was packed to the rafters with several people waiting for a table. Food was very good, but not exceptional, service was very good with friendly and attentive staff(even though they were rushed off their feet). Would definitely go again. People who don't like very busy restaurants would probably be better off avoiding TBH.

We dined there last weekend and having not heard of the restaurant I was a little dubious - however the restaurant more than satisfied our needs. The food was excellent, the sushi inparticular which was so fresh, compliments to the chef who is doing an amazing job. Also the service is exceptional, the staff were very attentive and helpful. If you enjoy Japanese food this is a little gem of a restaurant - the next best thing to eating in Japan.

On Saturday night my wife and I were out for a friends birthday party at your restaurant. This was a party of 14 people, one of which was a girl who is connected to your business. Prior to the booking, menus were emailed around the guest list and everyone agreed that it looked nice and a good place to go, with main courses priced between £9-15. This was adorable for us and what we were expecting to pay on arrival. We were greeted and taken up to the bar in the lift by a member of staff, all very nice. The bar and place itself is visually beautiful, for which I congratulate you. I went to approach the bar and was told ‘someone will come to you and take your order’ so we went and sat down. It was about 8.30 and our table was booked for 9pm. Come 8.45 still nobody had come over. We were given a welcome drink which was a nice gesture, but I wanted a beer. I approached a member of staff and said could we order drinks please? She wrote it down and went off. 9pm, still no drinks, I was thinking ‘fine, they’ll probably serve us at the table seeing as its nearly 9’. It gets to 9.15, still no drink, and no call for the table, so I ask again and gets told ‘Its coming’. 9.30, still nothing. 9.40 and we were called to the table, 40 minutes late. So were sat at the table, 14 empty wine glasses and nobody’s been offered a drink. Great start to the evening! Bear in mind this is someone's pre-booked birthday party - and there was no effort from your staff to help us feel valued or important. It gets to 10pm (an hour after the table is booked) before someone asks us if we’d like a drink. I say to your staff that I’ve already ordered drinks, but you haven’t brought them. Oh very sorry, will get those to you now says the girl and walks off ignoring the other 12 people who also had no drinks! Then finally, several minutes later, menus were then put down ( after about 15 mins of us all sat there with no drinks!) …..And guess what…it was at this point we were told it was set menus of £25 per head. Our friend whose birthday it is says to the staff, ‘we don’t want the set menu, when I spoke to you on the phone you said we could order from the normal menu’ - but no, we couldn’t they said. Even the girl connected to the business couldn’t get you to serve us what we wanted! We not had planned on a £25 set menu, it was too expensive for us to be able to comfortably afford. But its a birthday and nobody feels comfortable saying that in front of her. This predicament was both unexpected and unwanted and could and should have been remedied at the time of booking by making it clear to us what was and was not available. So, we’ve got two menus in one menu book, ones a 3 course asian fusion, another a Thai banquet. Everyone wanted something off the Thai banquet menu. But then we get told, no, you can’t order from that one! Why give it to us then?! So, we have a very restricted set menu and suddenly the evenings much more expensive. Now, I love asian food but I admit I’ve never been to an asian fusion restaurant. Tikka masala with egg fried rice etc, hmmm - doesn’t really sound like asian fusion, more like a mish mash of dishes that don’t go! So, at this point we’re complaining to the manager/ manager in charge, where’s our drinks etc? What’s going on with the menu? He was fine and quite apologetic, but this lack of organisation and service was really having an impact on our evening, and my friend who’s birthday it was, was getting annoyed, understandably - almost to the point of tears. We all agreed to have this set menu ( don’t want to make a fuss when its someone birthday). Drinks dribbled in at different intervals, with no designated person serving us, just a very ‘ad hoc’ approach where some people got drinks and others were left waiting. When the food came ( long waits between courses) it was nothing more than average. My ‘duck fillet’ starter featured one small sliver of duck in four tiny individual cold pancakes. It was overly flavoured with mint and was quite unpleasant. Main course was a very small heap of spiced chicken ( chicken supreme it was called) dwarfed on a massive plate which I’d ordered with thai spiced mash. The mash was disgusting, salty, and consistency like Smash or wallpaper paste. That went straight back. My pudding (11.40pm when it arrived) was a horrible piece of bean curd cake with chocolate sauce, it tasted like a wet sponge - foul. Other people’s food went back, underdone steaks, tasteless curries, overcooked rice, unpleasant naan ( I’ve never had naan bread that I’ve wanted to spit out before!)….all in all, horrendous. and people left at the end eating on their own with cold side dishes, unacceptable. I've read some mixed reviews on Vermillion but you can be sure that this is being published on numerous sites, including my own blog which receives more than 100 hits per day. After complaining to the duty manager we had 25% off the bill. But still, for my partner and I this was still representing about £30 more than we wanted to pay. I am afraid to say that this was the single worst dining experience of my life, terrible, awful service and food that would’ve been better from the Golden Village takeaway in Cheadle Heath! The place was full but there seemed to be people sending stuff back around us. A really beautiful venue but 100% style over substance, and a huge waste of our money, not to mention time, over 3 hours at the table and almost a full hour late from the time we booked for (9pm) to the time we were sat down (9.45) and given a menu (10pm). Avoid at all costs, especially if you're in a large party. Chris Jones

Would not recommend this chain, the food was very bland and not the cheapest of places to eat. Great to have an open kitchen but not so great to see your mains waiting before you've had your starters! There are plenty of better restaurants in Manchester

We went to the restaurant twice last week! Its that good. The food is excellent, everything is fresh and its great that most of it is sourced on site. I had a few choices from the specials board, seafood chowder followed by rump steak with a mushroom and tarragon sauce. My boyfriend had the steak which hes claimed as the best hes had, quite a statement. The portions are extremely big so we shared a creme brulee, just lovely but the winner was the homemade shortbread with it. I wish they sold packets of the stuff!

By far the best kofta kebabs in manchester. I had mine with the cous cous salad, yogurt and uber fresh chilli and tomato sauce. Oh and its a restaurant as well. Deniz youre the man

We went on a extremely busy Friday night, great service but the food was far from great. Tough calamari and a disappointing pasta choice, huge portions of sloppy tagliatelle with a awful creamy tomato sauce. My stomach was churning all night! On the positive side we sat near the kitchen and the pizzas looked really good!

My wife and I just happened across the super Turkish Delight restaurant in Chorlton and were absolutely delighted with the food. For my wife it was sword fish kebabs and I had a delicious mixed grill. To cap the enjoyment, the bill came in a little treasure chest containing Turkish delight.