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Banana Tree

Banana Tree

412-416 St. John Street, London, EC1V4NJ, United Kingdom

Asian • Curry • Chicken • Noodles


"I booked a table online for 7 people in the evening after a performance at the theatre (5 mins walk to the Lyric theatre). When booking online if the time you’d like isn’t an option to select just put it in the special request box. When we arrived we waited a few minutes to be seated and our waitress took our orders within about 8/9 minutes. They have a QR code on the table that you scan to view the menu and pay. The restaurant did have paper(physical menus) which helped so much just ask your waiter. Food was so tasty and seasoned very well. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their meal I personally recommend the Prawn Laksa, a fair amount of large prawns given too I’m rather knowledgeable about laksa anyway and this was rather authentic. The chicken dumplings are absolutely scrumptious !! The beef rendang was a little bit dry but tasty albeit. I had the chicken thai green curry as a main and I expected the sauce to be a tad thicker as I’m used to that. This was almost like a broth. Still tasty and lots of veg. Everyone’s mains were rather large/generous portions so much so that we asked for a few takeaway containers. The only reason I haven’t rated this 5 ’s is because of the cocktail I had which was a ‘Rangoon Zombie’ it’s supposed to be a strong cocktail but honestly it tasted like very sweet fruit juice, little to no alcohol at all I didn’t even finish it because it was so sickly sweet. Happy hour is also all day,everyday. It’s a very casual restaurant and quite relaxed don’t need to dress up at all and the seating is quite close, we had a bench and the bench beside almost looked as if we were all together. Overall 4 4.5 . I would visit again. Pictured: prawn laksa, Thai green curry and my cocktail £36pp service charge is optional"

I-chai

I-chai

1015 Crow Road, G13 1JP, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

Seafood • Asiatic • European • Fast Food


"We haven 't been here in quite a while but we were a bit short on time and didn 't want to travel too far for a quick lunch, so made a lunch booking as it was quite nearby. It is such a nice restaurant inside..,, nicely decorated and well laid out. We arrived about 10 mins early and were informed that they weren 't open yet and to wait outside... I explained that we had my very elderly mum who had severe mobility issues and they relented and said we could sit at the entrance until they opened. The staff were pretty helpful after that and even helped mum to our table. We ordered various starters : 1. Chicken sweetcorn soup it was very good thick creamy with plenty of chicken. 2. Chicken noodle soup this didn 't have much chicken it was pretty bland (had to add quite a bit of soy sauce to give it some flavour. 3. The veg spring rolls were not the greatest either they were those tiny wee mini ones again, pretty tasteless and again needing plenty of soy sauce to give some flavour. The mains weren 't the best either : 1. Chicken mushroom pretty tasteless and had more onion than chicken or mushroom.. very disappointing. 2. Breast of Chicken curry it tasted ok except it wasn 't a breast of chicken, it was cubes of chicken. 3. Beef curry ... the beef was a bit chewy and certainly, nowhere as nice as I have had here previously. We all had fried rice and this was the worst part of the meal very bland, quite mushy and over cooked... we found a hair in one portion. We quietly pointed this out to the staff when they were clearing the table... but they didn 't seem very interested.... just nodded and continued to clear the table. A bald chap (I believe may have been the manager and/or chef) came over lent over the back of the booth we were sitting at and very quietly said (whispered) that he had been told we had found a hair in one of the portions of rice and we acknowledged that this was the case... at which point he just said, we 'll obviously it wasn 't from me whilst pointing to his bald head. A bit taken aback by this, we just agreed and asked for the bill. So disappointing for what was a pretty good restaurant."

Cottier's Restaurant

Cottier's Restaurant

92-95 Hyndland street Glasgow, G11 5PX, United Kingdom

Pubs • Food • Steak • Scottish


"Booked a table in the attic for dinner. We were promptly surrounded by half cut punters shouting and swearing who had been diverted up from the bar downstairs. This is unacceptable and disrespectful to customers who have come specially for dinner. It should either be...a restaurant space or a pub, not both. It didn 't get much better... I 'm bring generous to say the servers were poor at their job. The were disinterested to the point of being arrogant. Very much gave the impression of being students who had no interest in doing their job. Put down soup and dessert without noticing we had no spoons!! The table next to us had to repeatedly go to the bar to ask for missing cutlery too. After having to go to the sering station to ask for condiments we were given an empty salt shaker! Food was literally dumped down and slid along the table, canteen style. The mussels starter was the only good part of the meal but spoiled a bit by the fact the clueless servers didn 't bring a dish for used shells, meaning I couldn 't really get into the sauce beneath (leaving aside the fact they didn 't bring a spoon! and there was no hot water brought to clean my fingers. Fish and chips was passable but overpriced at £14. Worth a tenner at best. The 'mountain burger ' was an absolute joke. It looked like a kids meal from Wetherspoons; similar to the picture below by another reviewer. The burger and chips were straight from the frozen catering catalogue. The night was summed up by the horrible sight of the boss publicly dressing down one of the servers in the middle of the restaurant. He was almost face to face with her, puffing his feathers out and finger pointing. At one point a customer who was walking past to the toilet tried to intervene because it was getting so uncomfortable. He was responded to with : it 's OK, I 'm the owner. I don 't care how poorly somebody is at doing their job, nobody has the right to take liberties like that. The irony is that he was obviously pulling her up for something to do with the tables of drinkers as he clearly hadn 't noticed the standard of restaurant food and service. On that note; it 's not a good look for an owner to be boozing in his own establishment and rise to his feet to play the boss card just to look like a big shot."