Bbq Pulled Pork Burger
The Botanist

The Botanist

41A King Street, Manchester, WA166DW, M3 2FW, United Kingdom

Steak • French • British • Chicken


"Sadly a disappointing experience. Service was extremely slow considering the area of the restaurant we were seated was maybe half full at most, so not a fully booked and busy evening. Took a long time for the waitress to take any orders, and food and drinks took even longer to arrive. Drink was delivered to the table with a hair in it. Took 10-15 minutes to get a replacement. We got seated right at the back away from any atmosphere, all we could hear was the kitchen repeatedly shouting for waitresses to take out orders. Table next to us was empty, and so the waitress kept using it as a place to stack up tons of dirty dishes rather than take back to the kitchen. Was here for a birthday, offered a celebratory dessert, it took 20+mins to arrive, and didn't come with a spoon which took asking another 2 waitresses for before it could be eaten. Bill was wrong and included food we hadn't ordered. Asked for that to be removed. Some food was delivered to the table cold, such as the fries. Didn’t ask for a replacement as we knew the rest of the meal would have been eaten before they’d been replaced given service so far. Service was poor and so we asked the automatic gratuity to be removed as we did not believe a £25-£30 additional payment reflected the experience we had. This was removed, but after this the waitress became extremely rude/cold towards us, throwing down our receipt and making us feel uncomfortable so we left promptly rather than go to the bar area for a further drink as planned. Wouldn’t recommend at all. A shame really as the person celebrating their birthday spent most of the journey home saying how disappointed they were in the experience. Wish I’d checked reviews earlier, as those posted most recently (on Design My Night) also echoed a similar sentiment of poor/slow service, and overpriced and underwhelming food."

Fredrick's

Fredrick's

Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, United Kingdom

Mexican • British • Seafood • European


"I must say, I was so disappointed with my visit to Fredricks. My friend and I went for afternoon tea and were really looking forward to it. But we both found the experience really disappointing. Firstly the afternoon tea cakes looked nothing like the advert, nowhere near as fancy. The scones were lovely but we only had about a couple of tablespoons of cream between the two of us which wasn’t enough! The chap who initially gave us our tea was lovely but then once he had gone we didn’t see a soul. There was no one coming to check if we were ok or needed refills. I ended up drinking cold tea and my friend who had a coffee had nothing once that was finished. It wasn’t until we were practically finished that someone else came to have afternoon tea that we could actually grab someone to ask them for a refill! The ambiance of the afternoon tea was awful. Initially there was lovely music in the background but after about 15 mins it was turned off and we were left in silence. All we could hear were staff in the next room shouting to each other about something or other. There was no atmosphere at all and we actually felt like we shouldn’t be there! I’ve been to a number of afternoon teas and this was by far the worst one I have had. However this was my friends first afternoon tea and we thought that Fredricks would be fabulous for a first time tea..... but she was so disappointed! I felt really bad for her! : I don’t think I would come again."