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The Pie Shed

The Pie Shed

1 Green Lane, LS11 7EZ, Dewsbury, United Kingdom

Sushi • Pizza • Cafés • Kebab


"I received an email the day of my event sent at 4.20pm but not seen by me until 6pm informing me that our food would be delivered between 5 and half past rather than the arranged 6.30pm due to adverse weather conditions. The venue had NOTHING to do with our event. It is a private function room. The tables for the buffet were not set up ready to receive when the food was delivered at 5.15pm which is the time venue bar staff told us it was delivered. (The catering owner states it was actually 5.45pm) My staff member arrived at 6pm to set up the trestle tables and the food had already arrived. She then set up the tables and when I arrived we had to move all the food over to where it should be. In my opinion the catering shed should have called the venue and got the number for the organiser (me) and contacted me directly. Better yet they should have taken a contact number in the first place. We could then have arranged to receive and refrigerate at my Nursery up the road. It’s completely unacceptable even had the food been perfect to deliver 1.5 hours earlier than expected without proper communication. But sadly the food was far from perfect. I sent an email on 17th November stating ‘Paid with thanks. Can I just check a few things please. I know I just said NO NUTS but also please no orange or rosemary unlikely as they are anyway. I know there will be candied peel in mince pies and just that is ok.’ Owner replied on 23rd…6 days later (which is a recurring theme-2 days maximum for a business reply is acceptable in my humble opinion) ‘Received your payment with thanks. I have also made notes of your requests.’ Obviously she hadn’t made a note. Because I opened the ‘Deluxe Cheese Platter’ and was smacked in the face with orange smell which made me vomit. (It’s my allergy which triggers vomiting and migraine) Now who puts Orange halves in with cheese…especially SOFT cheese which will soak up the orange flavour?! Especially when you’ve been specifically asked not to use oranges due to an allergy. The whole cheese board was then off limits to me. The owner has replied to my complaints basically stating that nobody else has complained and implying it must be my staff with dodgy palates . Going so far as to reference an email I’d sent saying some of my staff are ‘fussy buggers’ which was actually in regards to the festive menu items that I missed off and replaced with bespoke alternatives I requested. Funnily enough it was the basic items that were unacceptable: Cheese Onion Rolls had barely any filling and were dry. Pizza was dry and hard. Spring rolls were soggy. The chicken sandwiches had no butter or spread as requested. The tuna and egg sandwiches however appeared to have some sort of spread on and were brought to me by staff who then said they couldn’t eat them. The owner maintains no spread was used which if true then I don’t know what the problem was. I couldn’t tell either way but I only ate 1 of each as I personally found them bland and flavour less. I was hoping to receive a partial refund of 50%, not use them again and say no more about it. We’re talking £450 worth of food! So half back for all these issues is not unreasonable given our first post covid staff gathering was ruined. I’m very disappointed that the owner is not taking any responsibility or taking on board the negative feedback on the food. She has refused any form of refund with the exception of £10 to compensate for missing banqueting roll! AVOID"

Buca Di Beppo - Village Hotel Wirral

Buca Di Beppo - Village Hotel Wirral

Pool Lane Wirral, Merseyside CH62 4UE, CH62 4UA, Bromborough, United Kingdom

Sushi • Cafés • Pizza • Mexican


"We arrived as a family of four with no booking on a Sunday evening, the restaurant was fairly quiet, about 8 ish tables were taken, the gentleman at the entrance of the restaurant kindly ushered us to our table asking us for our drinks order...whilst we looked at menu, he told us a waitress would be serving us. We waited for an eternity for our drinks to arrive, what aggravated me when a couple arrived seated next to our table, took drinks order and they arrived before ours! We noticed another couple seated other side of us had finished their starter and waited a while for their plates to be removed. Our drinks arrived by our waitress with no people skills what so ever, we questioned her regarding steaks, she was unable to answer er, not sure, one is softer as to sirloin and rump. Again, restaurant was quiet but no sign of waitresses working' our meals arrived after another long wait, 3 of us ordered burgers, 1 with steak. 2 burgers were cold to eat along with the buns as if buns had just been taken out of fridge. As we waited a long time I begrudgingly ate with rustic' chips that were mildly warm again! I noticed couple who were there before us had left the majority of their meals (burgers again) and chips and left, no one cleared their table for at least 10 mins! Couple next to us who arrived after us had their order mixed up, lady ordered chicken/avocado salad, waitress took wrong meal away, I could clearly see the couple were both aggravated. We finished our not so great meal and again long wait for table to be cleared. Salad arrived on next table, lady complained there was no avocado in, after much deliberation we heard waitress say chef said no avocados left Gentleman in suit, I presume manager apologised offering her another meal, they also mentioned they had an extra long wait and wish to go elsewhere. We asked for the bill, bearing in mind when we arrived we informed gentleman we had 2 vouchers 2 for 1 so it'll be 2 transactions. The bill came as one transaction £98!!!!! No way our meal was worth that anyway! (we had no starter or dessert, 4 beers, 2 cokes, 1 jug of water So, again another long wait for bill to be rectified, we waited that long that we left table to wait for bill at till point, hence to say, leaving no tip! Absolutely disgraceful experience overall, that us and going by other diners we will not be returning!!! "

Village Grill - Village Hotel Leeds North

Village Grill - Village Hotel Leeds North

186 Otley Road Headingley Leeds, West Yorkshire LS16 5PR, LS16 6EZ, United Kingdom

Bbq • Pasta • Steak • British


"I visited pub and grill bar in other village hotels, but that was my first visit. to say I was disappointed, is an understatement. I booked well in advance for table. when I arrived, no table was booked, even if one of the employees brought my reservation on his tablet and I had previously confirmed my reservation. I was told to find one table and sit there. as they want, it was very busy because of football and rugby. After we wait for table to become available, we have settled. After waiting for someone to come to us (what they did not) I went to cash and explained that we included our meal in our stay and which menu we could use. I was told that they always used and one was pointed to me. we choose our eating and patiently waited at the bar for 15 minutes, just to say that we had the wrong menu it was a set menu from which we had to choose. I went back to my party of 6 and asked her to choose again. back to the bar for another 15 minutes waiting and ordered our food. after a 35-minute waiting period, our starters came out. After we had waited five minutes for my starter who was humous, we ate. our main meal began minus the cheese on our burgers, for which we paid extra. my daughter waited for her 10 minutes after we got ours. when we ask where her meal was, we were told that we were sorry we forgot to get out. when she got her steak, they had forgotten the pfeffer sauce. ! after completing our main course 2 of my party had paid for dessert, it was obvious to wait after another 20-minute, it was not appearing. until now it was 10.45 we had our table for 8 o'clock booked. when I approached a worker, no apology or explanation was offered about the series of failures. we had booked a night to meet the family. to celebrate the 30th birthday of my daughter. that has proved to be a sniff. I'm sure they can understand why my party of 6 was so disappointed."