Reviews in Southport

Excellent service and great food. Would recommend. Just shame about the parking space. Rita

Went with friend this last week, what a nice place, spacious nice ambience with the barbacue grill taking pride of place. owner manager recognised me from when he had a crosby restaurant, nice, the food is splendid mainly cooked on demand on the barbie. tasty, spicy and plenty of it all in all about £20 a head drinks included. Good grub and good value as we had the tasting platter with a bit of everything and we both finished totally clean plates, its on our A list as of now !

Disappointing. Although our mains were nice, the ribs were poor - no meat on the bone. The service was shabby, we had trouble attracting a waiter, and had to go to the desk and make several requests before we were given our bill. Cutlery didn't seem very clean, a large red lipstick was clearly visible on my cup.

Food excellent, beer great, manager rude, insultive, brash, threatening and belligerent. Unless you want a "Fawlty towers" type experience I heavily recommend you go somewhere else!

Myself & 3 friends went for lunch at the cafe after having purchased groupon voucher for the afternoon tea, The food i have to say was very fresh & very nice however we found that the quantity of food supplied was somewhat frugal & was only just enough for two people. 2 quater tuna 2 quater cheese sandwiches, & 2 meat salad half roll.s with 2 scones & 2 small slices of cream sponge does not make a substantial afternoon tea for 4 people.

Sometimes great, sometimes definitely not but today was the last straw. Waited at the bar whilst 4 staff chatted and eventually bought drinks and placed our order. Pizza night, you'd think they would have the ingredients to produce what they offer or, at least admit that they haven't and decline the order. If you run out of mozzarella cheese, ham and seafood it's impossible to produce a marinara (seafood) pizza or a ham and pineapple pizza.Our meals took a long time to arrive and we should not have bothered waiting! I have never had a pizza made with cheddar cheese before. Ham and pineapple is not so good when it's just pineapple and sludgy warm cheddar. Tomatoes and a few slivers of smoked salmon are definitely not seafood and when I came across tuna, which I detest, buried in the cheddar sludge, we both decided to cut our losses. Stopped at Asda on the way home and ate at 10.00. Not a great evening out.

Have eaten here many times and the food is always good, great staff with a nice welcoming attitude and atomosphere to boot.

Visited the shop after they won their award and must say the food was fantastic.The fish and chips where lovely, and the staff where friendly will definitely visit again .Well doneBecks x

We visited The Arion for lunch and sat in the conservatory in a very calming atmosphere. We ordered a gammon meal off the 'special' board. The portions were more than ample and the food was excellent! The staff (Greg who brought the meals and a young lady who brought my coffee to the table) were a credit to the pub. The decor in the pub is very calming and the whole pub is spotlessly clean. Well worth a visit!!

My family had a lovely meal here on Sunday evening. We decided to book at Lings after reading the excellent reviews on Sugarvine we booked a table for 7 people plus a baby and had the £8.95 banquet. It was excellent food and great value, the owner was very friendly and made us all feel very welcome.Only down side as there was no disabled toilet for my Gran, this would not put us off going again though as thanks to the hotel round the corner, Gran was able to use their loo! Would definately recommend this for anyone looking for an excellent meal in a good cnetral location in Southport.

What a little jewel of a cafe. visited on the 18th of this month.The staff are friendly ,the food ace ,and the prices ,fantastic for the service and well cooked crusine,i found the soups brilliant,.will i return ,you watch me in September.D F Baird

Absolutely disgusting experience. From the quality of the food to the managers attitude. My partner and I where looking forward to trying out the world Buffett experience as we dine in the plaza often and had never tried this, I can honestly say we will never return as the food wasn't good enough to give a dog. When we where asked about the service we said it wasn't the best .The waiter then asked if we would like to speak to a manager who then came over to the table and was very confrontational. When we asked for the bill he threw it down and walked away didn't even apologise. Absolute rip off and totally let down.

Been going here for a few years and thought it was an OK restaurant. However, went this weekend and found all the food luke warm and the spring rolls and prawn toast tasted like they had been re-heated from the previous day. When I went to the manageress and said that the food was not hot enough, she said that they "change the water in the heaters on a Friday night so the food isn't usually hot enough until 2pm on the Saturday" - they open at 11.30am and she showed no remorse for the fact that anyone eating between 11.30am and 2pm on a Saturday will be eating cold food. She offered me a bottle of water as an apology (no, I'm not joking!). The Real China needs to be very careful, there are many other restaurants around them. The food they served was extremely poor and I will not be going there again. Sorry Real China, but if you had only appeared remorseful for the awful food me and my family had eaten, I may have given you a second chance, but you didn't care - good luck, you'll need it!!

didnt have good experience were not told on arrival we could not order from live bar until 3pm if we had been informed we would have returned at 3 we noticed that another customer had had the chefs make him pizza from live bar so dont understand that my husband got some chicken tikka masala from buffet but very little chicken in sauce left we asked chefs if they would be replenishing same they said yes they were making it as we spoke still had not been replenished some time later we gave up waiting and left a shame because it was the nicest food available from buffet

The Westminster Tea Rooms are lovely to visit for Afternoon tea they have a few different afternoon teas to choose from, I have tried them all and would recommend all of them. The decoe of the tea rooms is very traditional with the white linen tablecloths that are spotless. This is a must to visit if you are in the area

I met the head chef two weeks ago in a super bar called The Inn Beer shop. Thus Norma and I visited Lings last week. Our meal was superb. So much so we re-visited last night( Monday). Once again the food was of a very high standard. The restaurant is immaculate and I liked the ' ambience' very much. Lings will be a regular ' eating place for us from now onwards. We chatted to Ling ( owner) and she is a lovely person. We share a love of cats. Do visit Lings the food will not disappoint you. John

.We were very kindly given a Groupon voucher by our Son and Daughter in law for a 5 course taster menu at The Dining Rooms. What a delightful evening, we cannot praise this establishment highly enough. The restaurant, the staff the ambience and the food were fantastic and to top it all there was a guy playing guitar and singing which really added to the atmosphere. We really enjoyed the night and our sincere compliments to the Chef who offers such delightful food. We could not be critical in any way - it was a wonderful experience and we shall certainly be returning VERY SOON. Thank you.

Nice friendly pub Very good quality beer, meals reasonable and plentiful Well recomendes Only problem was light in disabled toilet and a bone in my sons chicken burger Despite this will definitely go again