Cheese Omelette
Graffiti

Graffiti

Whitehouse Lane, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB3 0GS

Steak • Cakes • British • European


"We live in Dorset but my In-Laws live in Cambridge and we have had several great family celebrations at the Felix Hotel, including a wedding last April. Therefore it seemed the perfect place to take my In-Laws to for Christmas lunch this year. I booked early and a few weeks before Christmas I got a phone call from Reception to say they were e-mailing the Christmas Lunch menu to me for us to make our choices. The menu did not arrive, so I telephoned the hotel and they apologised and said they would re-send it. Again, it did not arrive, so I telephoned again to be told that they had sent it, twice, to the wrong address. On Christmas Day we arrived at the restaurant where a young woman, who was walking around with a piece of paper in her hand, looked at me and said Yes? No greeting, no smile, no Happy Christmas, no welcome.We were shown to our table, where we were basically abandoned. After 20 minutes, having not been approached by a member of staff or been offered bread, water, or anything else I sought out the Barman and asked if we could have our 'Welcome Drink ' (as featured on the menu) which he brought to our table. We were then told that as we had not pre-chosen our menu there would be a delay in serving our lunch. I assured the young woman (the unsmiling one who had showed us to our table) that we had indeed e-mailed our menu choices and she then disappeared to look for the e-mail. When the food finally arrived it was delicious but we were left for long periods between courses and served by a variety of waiting staff who, without exception, were curt and clearly would rather have been elsewhere. Finally, when I went to pay the bill, I was given the wrong bill and the same miserable young woman as before was clearly irritated when I questioned it. I wrote to the Manager to express my disappointment with our Christmas experience but have had no acknowledgement from the hotel. Sadly, we will not be returning and would not reccommend it to anyone."

Wild At Spirit

Wild At Spirit

23/24 Eld Lane, CO1 1LS, Colchester, United Kingdom

Panini • Salads • Mexican • Breakfast


"We have been there a few times before for ice cream, they have a large choice, and very good. We loved that independant little place.We went there for a Saturday lunch with friends and kids. The lady serving was nice to the kids. We ordered a veggie chilli, a chili con carne (my favourite, which i was really looking forward to) and other dishes. 1adult arriving afterwards, sent us a text asking us to order a chili con carne. So my daughter, 14, went to see the waitress and said could i order another chili con carne. The waitress said “ok so that’s 2with meat and one without”. YesThe food arrives : 2 chicken curry which noone ordered. We said so straight away. She went back to the kitchen, and came back with the plates, saying to my daughter you did ask for 2curries. We said, no we are sure that we ordered 3chili, one veggie and 2 with meat. Another lady from the kitchen shouted, yeah i heard you say “curry”. The waitress: I can make chili con carne but it’s going to take 1/2h extra and you will to pay for curry and chili. My daughter grew up here and has no accent.It was uncomfortable and we didn’t want to wait and pay for things we never ordered. We were very accomodating and said we’ll have your curry, and to be fair it looked nice.We paid the bill in full and there was never an apology or any kind of nice words towards the confusion. We are sure to have ordered chili, we have a text message asking for a chili con carne, they may have heard curry. I think the mistake happened when the waitress made the order to the kitchen. They could have at least shared some responsability. They way they handled the situation was aggressive towards us, not taking any blame, or leaving any doubt. It’s not the best customer service. The food was good but it left us a bad taste. If they had been nicer dealing with it, we would go back, but this put us off.So i recommend you go, but write the order yourself on a paper, to avoid being served something else."