Reviews in Manchester

Me and my boyfriend went on a Sunday evening to eat. We sat down and ordered our meals (Garlic Bread starter and 2 seafood paella starters to share), we waited 30 minutes for the garlic bread and one seafood paella came. We said we ordered two seafood paellas and waited a further 20 minutes for the other paella starter. When this arrived it had cold spots in it. This is SEAFOOD which came with hot and cold spots. We sent it back and asked for a refund, and said we would pay for what we ate. They tried charging us twice for the drinks, and also tried charging us for the meals we had not eaten. When challenged, they refunded the drinks and we paid for the garlic bread and 1 seafood paella, however this was after 3 attempts of challenging the receipt. I had food poisoning the night after eating some of the paella, i would never eat here again nor would i recommend this restaurant.

We just went for a quick bite to eat before going to the cinema and the food was lovely. I had spaghetti vongole, and the clams were tasty and a good portion of pasta. The food and restaurant is very good but some things are a little overpriced for what they are.

We went for a pre-concert meal on Saturday at Sweet Mandarin. It was a buzzy atmosphere, service was really efficient and friendly and the food came out quick and was amazing. I ordered the salt and pepper wings which were so fresh and delicious. My partner ordered the hot and sour soup which had the right balance to it. Then we tried the Shanghai Beef and Mandarin Chicken - both were excellent. I will definitely be recommending Sweet Mandarin to my friends and be returning for more. Thanks for a wonderful meal.

Went to sweet manderin last night and at best I can say is very average. We had the starters combo for 2 which consisted of 2 s&p ribs, very dry and tasteless, prawn toast, quite good, spring rolls, ok, and seaweed, again just ok. Mains I had the claypot chicken which again was alright and my wife had firecracker chicken which was sweet and sour with a bit, and I mean a bit, of chilli. We finished with 2 coffees which were instant! £3.50 for 2 instant coffees! The waiter was cheery, but a friend who knows the family reckon they are all well educated to degree level, well this guys maths was not his major as his adding up was shocking and I had to correct him twice on the bill. Funny though he knew what 10% of everything was.

DO NOT eat here!! I had a hair in my food and the waiter tried to convince me it was mine, despite it being a different colour! He even turned the light on to show me when my friend was still eating her meal... Portions very small and not worth the money at all, even for the early dinner menu!!

We have been several times to Tampopo and always find the food and service to be excellent. There are plenty of things to try and it's good to see the food being cooked in front of you. The food is always fresh, tasty and healthy in comparison to other restaurants.

PLEASE FORWARD TO THE RESTAURANT - My friend and I dined here on Friday and had the set menu 2 courses for £12 - the portion sizes were tiny and the food was not worth this expensive price. Being vegetarian I had no choice but the mushroom starter and vegetable main course - the starter was certainly not 'salt and pepper' as described, as had no flavour or heat to it and we had to order prawn crackers to fill ourselves up. My friend had the chicken dumplings, which were tiny and served with a few shreds of lettuce. My friend's main course was the worst part, as she found a human hair in her beef shanghai noodles! The waiter then returned to our table holding the hair explaining that it was not the chef's hair as it was the wrong colour and insinuating that it was my friend's hair - even though it was not her hair colour. My main course was far from substantial and was a plate of vegetables consisting of only water chestnuts and chinese leaf in a sauce. There was no vegetarian substitute, e.g. tofu, hence no protein balance as the rice was just plain rice. For £12 a head you are completely ripped off and leave the restaurant still hungry. The waiter was over friendly and this became irritating. I would not return here to eat again and was highly disappointed. The various other chinese restaurants in the city centre offer far better value for money with more extensive choices of food on their set menus, larger adequate portions, 3 courses and all at a cost of between £8 - £10. I think you should research the competition and adapt your menus and service significantly.

I went here for the first time with a date last night and it was an enjoyable evening. Impressive decor, lovely furniture, overall nice feel to the actual restaurant. The food was good quality, very tasty and well cooked. My only slight criticism would be that the service ran too much 'like clockwork', a bit of personal touch/customer interaction would have been wonderful.

Ten members of Trafford Curry Club ate at the Deccan on Thursday 2nd April 2009. We booked a table for 8.30pm and on our arrival there were a number of tables already in use. The decor is quite dated in the seventies style but it only adds to the charm and nice relaxed homely atmosphere.This restaurant has been going over thirty years so it must be doing something right!We started off the evening with the ubiquitous poppadums with mango chutney, onions, mint yoghurt and lime pickle. Then we had mixed starters for ten persons which all came on individual plates and consisted of Tikka Lamb, Chicken, Onions and Salad all of which were absolutely delicious. For mains we ordered a wide selection to test the Chefs competency and we were not disappointed. We had Chicken Khorma, Lamb Passanda, Lamb Kharai, Chicken Kharai, Chicken Jalfreizi, Chicken Tikka Jalfreizi, Garlic Prawns and Lamb and Chicken Bhuna. With the rice we also had a choice of Garlic, Keema and Peshwari Nan bread. All the mixed starters and main courses came together which was really pleasing. Every order was perfect with nothing missing or incorrect. For drinks we had draught Cobra and Carlsberg lager and bottled bitter. We rounded off the evening with coffees and sliced oranges. The bill came to £190 for all the food and drinks which we thought was very reasonable for what we had to eat. We really enjoyed our evening and we all agreed that the Deccan is the type of restaurant that you will always want to visit time and time again like visiting an old friend. For those who like their curries hot we recommend the Chicken Tikka Jalfreizi! Thank you Deccan for a lovely evening.

A little gem. Fantastic food, ambience and a great hostess. Highly recommended

Zouk really is the place to be!! Great food, great service, great atmosphere and ambience, 10/10 !!!!! we love it!!! the best burgers, scwharmas, curries in the world...not to forget the deserts simply divine!!! zouk is the best would recommend to everyone for a great night out

Don't bother unless there are at least six of you eating, this includes children in the party even after 7pm, when you would think it would be child free, especially on a Sun! Over an hour is not a 30min waiting time. There was not the selection of food as mentioned in another review. There was Gammon, Turkey or Beef. There was also no broccoli or cauliflower and one chef and from what I saw, two waitresses serving, no surprise there was a big queue and ridiculous wait for tables. My advice to The Rudyard, be prepared, get organised and put customers on a first come first served basis, not how much money you can squeeze out of people in one sitting, shame on you.

im very fussy about food but the bilash is fab, great food great service, you have to try it.

Great ambience a certainly a warm welcome from the friendly manageress and staff. This is a newly refurbished village pub which retains most of it's original features as befits a coaching house of it's period. The food was somewhat disappointing however, half an hour wait for very simple starters wasn't really worth it - given that they all arrived in stages making several of us wait before starting to eat. Then we found one of the dishes was partially frozen, luckily we had swapped it with my husbands fishcake otherwise my toddler would have eaten a frozen spring roll. The mains quickly followed but the steaks were so overcooked that they had shrunk and some dish ingredients had been confused with different meals. Decided to have dessert and coffee at home. I think it prudent to wait to eat there until the food service operation can be improved.

best food around ,,great place

I wish I could recommend this restaurant, but unfortunately we never got as far as sampling the food. When the first course arrived, one of the dishes was not what we had ordered. When we pointed this out to the server, rather than apologising for the mistake, he insisted that I had, in fact, ordered what he had brought. There followed a rather heated discussion, during which no attempt was made by the server to rectify his mistake. Consequently, we asked for a full refund, which, after three further mistakes, we received, and we took our leave. There is no way that I would recommend that anyone visit an establishment staffed by such ill mannered people!

I went to The Town Bar on 24.03.09. It was absolutely lovely! They have had a refurbishment & it's so much cleaner & more relaxing. The food was amazing & the service was too. The coffee not the best I've had but it has much improved.

Good food, well served in good surroundings. Good deal at lunch time (£5.95 for pizza or pasta)