Barnet
Spizzico

Spizzico

196 High Street, EN5 5SZ, Barnet, United Kingdom

Pizza • Mexican • Asiatic • Seafood


"My partner laughs at me when we go to restaurants. Why? Working with many independent businesses I help business owners improve their marketing and customers experience. In restaurants there are usually a hundred and one things that could be improved. The service is usually slow, inaccurate, or over friendly, in your face intrusive. Our meals are often spent with me analysing and discussing the customer service and business strategies they're using, and what would work better for them. From the moment I walked in to Spizzico's I was pleasantly surprised, lovely decor. Fresh flowers at the bar. Friendly greeting from the staff. Great selection on the menu, I chose a sourdough pizza margarita with ham. It was delicious, thin and crispy. Yum! Lewis choose a causes and chips (home made and if loved it, especially the crispy fresh salad inside). Service was no less than brilliant, friendly efficient prompt! The owner came to say hello, was warm welcoming but not overwhelming. He clearly takes pride in running an excellent restaurant. I've experienced much worse service in the Savoy. The prices here? For the quality of food super reasonable and excellent value for money! I found myself expressing my delight at the great service and brilliant little restaurant my partner discovered! This is an extremely rare occurrence for me! We'll definitely be back when we're in or around Barnet."

Original Lahore

Original Lahore

148-150 Brent Street, NW4 2DR, Barnet, United Kingdom

Halal • Indian • Chicken • Pakistani


"We as a family have been coming here for the past ten years, and we can never find fault with the food usually. It has recently been refurbished which is nice, thereby creating additional seating space. We have come back here after several months and we were shocked by how much they have increased their prices. A meal for 5 (two adults and three kids) that previously woud cost approx £60 yesterday cost an eye watering £93 ! Prices have been increased as if it were a fancy London restaurant which it is not. £4 for a single kulfi. £4 for a two piece gulab jamoon (thats £2 per piece). £3 for a single garlic naan. £7.50 for a tarka daal ! and £8 for a ladies finger Karahi. Mix grill for 2-3 people £29.50 ! They have also reduced the size of their seekh kebabs and now give you cheaper chicken seekh kebabs in the mixed grill (as well as lamb) which they never used to before.While I do understand that energy costs and the price of food stuffs have gone up recently, these price hikes are not sustainable, which probably explains why on a Saturday evening at 20:00 there were only a small amount of customers. If you hike up your prices so much for a clientele who are used to paying reasonable prices you will lose customers to the detriment of trying to increase your profits to cover your costs, to a degree. Needless to say, we shall not be visiting again any time soon. Oh by the way, our meal did not even include desert for all five of us and neither did any of order any soft drinks. If we had, the bill would have probably been circa £120-£125. Thanks but no thanks, we shall find a cheaper pakistani restaurant within the surrounding areas of which there are several. Sad really as we loved their grills"

Kaifeng

Kaifeng

51 Church Road, Barnet, United Kingdom

Fish • Asian • Kosher • Coffee


"We were in London for a few days and we were really looking forward to eating in this restaurant. I had been previously many many years ago but not with my family. On arrival, we were ‘greeted’ by this sour bunch of three ladies, one who confirmed our reservation, one who took our coats and one who showed us to the table. We were put off by this but we were looking forward to our meal so we simply ignored this. Once we saw the exorbitant menu prices (around £29 per dish), we decided to just order a main course only to be asked by the waitress, “is that it? That’s all you are going to order?” What we decide to order is our choice and do not expect to be ‘judged’ by a waitress! Again, we decided to ‘brush this off’ and ordered our meal. To describe this as a ‘meal’ is an understatement! The chicken in black bean sauce had maybe 6 small pieces of chicken, perhaps 50g at most. This was spongy and with no texture at all. I can honestly say that if I ate it blindfolded I would never guess that it was chicken! The spare ribs came absolutely drowned in a thick gloopy sauce and the meat was like a rubber boot and again with not enough to feed a kitten and the fried rice was way undercooked and hard. At this point I had had enough and decided to ask for the owner/manager. Two or three servers came in turn before the actual owner decided to grace us with his presence. At no point did I raise my voice as I had no intention of disturbing other diners. The owner, Norman his name was berated us in a loud voice that he had over 40 years experience in the restaurant business and that no one had ever complained about his food and that he only served prime cuts. He also said that this was kosher food and that we had no idea what kosher food was all about!! We eat kosher at home and when we eat out and he had no right whatsoever to judge us like this! All the other customers were now staring at us making the situation highly embarrassing to say the least! HE then literally threw us out of the restaurant. Looking at the reviews here on Tripadvisor I can clearly see that other people HAVE complained and rightly so, and shared similar experiences to ours. Norman, if you ever read this (and I think you should) please take heed. I will post this review on Tripadvisor and on all Kosher restaurant review sites I can find! Shame on you and shame on your establishment!"