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Mega Kebab

Mega Kebab

133 Sidwell Street, Exeter, United Kingdom

Kebab • Pizza • Cafés • Mexican


"As a previous student of the local University, I have had the pleasure of calling Mega Kebab my third home. However, in this, my second review, I feel the need to impart some home truths. First though, some positives. As I stumbled past the inviting...front façade at 1am one Saturday morning, I entered a short queue. One commendable feature remaining, after the Godfather, Ali's, migration to the exotic reaches of Polsloe, is the service time. I can report times of under 20 seconds, from the moment I slur medium cheesy chips please bossman to walking back out that front façade, smug about the yellow container of goodness I have in my clasp. Or so I think. As the title of this review suggests, a number of staple kebab shop contenders have gone downhill quickly. Chips cold. Cheese covering pitiful. Garlic mayo lathering more conservative than my Grandma's Texan ex-boyfriend. Mega donner meat of old was outstanding. Shards of spicy, chewy, undefinable meat, beefed-up (or horsed-up, who knows) any meal. Now, this staple has been reduced down to what can only be described as fatty bacon bits for rabits. As a health-discerning kebab shop customer, the 70%-30% fat-to-meat ratio was disappointing. Whilst the old Mega staff used to call both me and my mate Tony, despite neither of us holding such an identity, at least there was some sense of a personal touch. With the moving on of staff, has also come the moving on of the friendly, I'll watch your mate throw your chips against the wall and still welcome you back next time type vibe. With this too has gone the level of cuisine I came to live on during my higher education years. Perhaps timely, then, that with the search for a grad job comes the search for a new favourite kebab shop. p.s. anyone got any grad jobs flying around get in touch"

Cardamom Bay Bognor Regis

Cardamom Bay Bognor Regis

43 Queensway, Bognor Regis, PO211QN, PO21 1QN, bognor-regis, United Kingdom

Cafés • Mexican • Seafood • Fast Food


"We had booked in advance. When we arrived it was clearly very busy, and we were asked to stand by the takeaway counter. No problem with that – it was a 50% off day and we appreciated it was hectic. But whilst we were waiting there a waiter came past carrying a tray and accidentally brushed against my wife, leaving a curry stain on the sleeve of my wife’s coat. He apologised, which was fine, but we still felt we needed to point it out to the manager behind the counter, in case we couldn’t get it out. At first he tried to laugh it off and dismiss it as nothing to worry about, but when we politely asked him to make a note of it he started to get angry. He then lead us to our table at the back of the restaurant. We were a bit concerned with how close this was to the people on the adjoining table (as were they) and when we queried this he started shouting at us so loudly that people on all the nearby tables stared in disbelief. As we sat down he actually shouted “No need to stay. We won’t serve you” I was absolutely gobsmacked at such behaviour, the like of which I have never ever encountered in a restaurant, and I could tell by the faces of the customers on the tables on either side that they were deeply embarrassed. We did stay, and they did serve us. And on the way out afterwards the manager (whose name was Kamal) did in fairness to him, apologise for his behaviour, but of course that was far too late.It was clear that the 50% deal made the restaurant much busier than they could cope with. The ladies on one side had to ask 3 times just to get someone to take their order, and they still hadn’t received any food by the time we left. And when we asked for our bill, we were given somebody else’s Worst of all, despite intensive efforts, we were unable to get the curry stain out of my wife’s coat. We phoned the next day and were promised the owner would phone us. We’re still waiting……"