This place has just recently re-opened but is FAR from being a 'bistro'. It is basically a cheaper ended sandwich shop which also serves cooked breakfasts and poached eggs, bacon sandwich etc. It is very cheap but there again there's a reason for that - the ingredients used are the cheapest mass produced pulp you can find. The only exception is the bread, milk and some other items which are bought from Tescos around the corner! You often find a lot of incredibly fat truckers in there gorging on the full English breakfast for £4. This crash-course binge eating emporium is very similar to a greasy spoon truck stop. This place doesnt even serve proper coffee even though they have a big coffee machine - they use a large catering tin of Nescafe granulated instant. The majority of the food being offered is made from the scavenged left-overs from North Blackpool Golf Club's kitchens where the owner Giles is also the cook. His Dad makes the bolognaise at home and its brought into Roast in a large plastic bucket. Hardly haute cuisine... It may look swanky... it may look impressive... but Roast is basically all fur coat and no knickers serving sub-standard foodstuffs and the reclaimed buffet scrapings from the golf club. The whole enterprise is overseen by a girl called Lisa who is a cousin of one of the owners. She has as much personality as one of the limp cuccumbers they serve up, has no fashion sense and her personal hygiene leaves a lot to be desired. Highly entertaining though - its like watching Miss Piggy flap and panic in a Central Drive sandwich shop - a carachter she bears an uncanny resemblence to. More practice with the 'Girl's World' make-up doll head when she was a kid instead of feasting on donuts and take-aways may have been helpful. All in all if you want the very cheapest bottled water bought from B& M Bargains (Tredernwen Essence 6 for a £1) ... served up scraps from someone else's buffets ... bread and supplies from Tescos surrounded by fat bellied truckers and assorted riff raff then this is just the place for you. Roast Bistro in the stricktest sense of gastronomical delights, should be firmly avoided at all costs.It is an affront to even attempt to pass itself off as a bistro.

just had the smoked haddock soup. Absolutely gorgeous and as part of the meal deal a bargain!

Chris

I went here on Wednesday for lunch, i am a returning customer and do go to roast around 2 - 3 times a week.. usually i am served by very polite people but on this occasion a woman with black short hair served me and was very abrupt. I asked if instead of tomato as one of the 5 items in my salad could i have double pepper, she replied with a sigh whilst rolling her eyes " you can have what you want" almost as if she didn't want to be serving me, at this point another member of staff looked over in embarrassment as to how she spoke to me. I don't usually complain but i feel that if this carries on its going to cost you quite a few customers.

Chris Dunn

I went here for lunch on Friday and had the best sandwich that i've had in a long time. The new woman seems to take more time and care over each sandwich that she makes. which evidently leads to a far better sandwich than what i had received previously. Thank you

The Fine Diner

With this place being called Roast one would've thought that the roast they do would be of a high standard. Do not be fooled, the meat was dry, tough and lacking flavour, as was the bread that they served it in. I am reassured by other people who eat here that the food is actually very nice, such as the soups and the cold sandwiches, so perhaps I will give this a try. Won't be eating that roast sandwich again though unless they pull their socks up!

One Less Customer

Have been here a few times on the way to work and sometimes it's been good, when they get it right it's great. However a few times my morning sandwich had been stale and I was good enough to tell them about this today (As yesterdays was stale all around the edges). Lady behind the counter said the bread was delivered daily which is fair enough but I still got a stale one. So moving on then ordered one again with white bread and when it came back was in a barm cake. I said I'd ordered it on white bread and a different lady (older) told me bluntly that I hadn't ordered that. "I did" I replied and got a stuffy moody glare as she went off to make it. When she came out she told me in front of the rest of the counter that "we do them on barm cakes so if you don't specify that's what you get". Hadn't I just told her what I had ordered? I was FUMING! I came in to let them know their food hadn't met the standard I expected (politely) and left with a load of attitude off of a woman who must have been a traffic warden in a past life. I will NOT be spending anymore money with these cowboys.

This a great addition to the area. Now we have somewhere to go and get great food in very pleasant surroundings. The quality of ingredients in good and far superior to the vans that patrol the area. A regular haunt for lunch and I Hear they are opening for Dinner soon.

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