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The Block Gasket

The Block Gasket

11-13 School Road, M33 7XY, Trafford, United Kingdom

Pub • Fish • Pizza • British


"Downloaded the app. Nothing worked. Ordered at the bar, paid £2.25 extra for beef on my burrito bowl. When it came out, there was literally 5g of beef and sauce added to the smallest burrito bowl I have ever seen. The bowl itself was fine. But if I had paid just £10 for the bowl itself, as standard, I would have been furious. But then having paid £2.25 for an extra 5g of beef. After asking for an opinion from the staff (who were extremely helpful), it sounded like they either agreed and didn’t want to comment, or didn’t really know what a standard protein portion on a standard meal should be. Ground beef is cheap. Slow cooked ground beef is low maintenance, cheap easy to prepare. My concerns about the portion sizes were confirmed when I was brought out a 2nd portion of the beef… which appeared to be no more than 10g of beef (if you were being generous), and a lot of sauce. For context. At home, you could make 500g of the same thing for around £5.00… and as a business, buying at wholesale, bulk prices, you can make it a lot cheaper. So even if you were serving a standard portion of protein 20 30g for an adult you’d still make money, if you were buying wagyu ground beef from waitrose. If you are looking for decent food… give this one a miss. The service and drinks are all standard for a chain pub, its just the food that is a scam. Staff were 10/10 though, and brought me out a 2nd portion, with no drama. But even 2 portions of that beef wasn’t really enough protein for an adult. And there was far too much sauce to cover the fact that there was hardly any beef"

Dalston Jazz

Dalston Jazz

4 Bradbury StreetN16 8JN, London, United Kingdom

Full • Cafe • French • Seafood


"I would recommend that everyone eat at Dalston Jazz bar for the simple reason that every terrible restaurant you visit throughout the rest of your life will seem better by comparison. We walked in and were confronted with a decor that was presumably aiming for shabby chic but had instead landed squarely on skanky tetanus. We took a table at the back after being told that the one free at the front was reserved. Fair enough. We then splashed out the eminently reasonable price of £32 for 2 pints, a single vodka and (flat) coke and a cosmopolitan so sweet I can only assume they got the cranberry juice mixed up with the Vimto. For some reason all drinks had to be paid for immediately rather than being added to your bill presumably because so many people walk out. Words cannot describe the quality of our waiter at least not words I can write here. When he eventually took our food order he explained that it was a 'pay what you want ' restaurant, before immediately contradicting himself by informing us that each dish held a minimum 'donation ' of £15. What about the foccaccia? I dared to ask. £15 I was informed. Deciding to forgo the world 's most expensive bread we went for the prawns. They had the taste and texture of rubber covered in warm sweet chilli sauce. The chef had taken the unusual step of placing these on top of the crispy salad leaves, making them somewhat less crispy. The accompanying dish of a 'fishcake ' was, in reality, a pile of overcooked mash stuffed with the sweepings of the kitchen, some of which were presumably piscine in nature. The night culminated when the waiter, despite our protests, insisted we move to the long table he had originally said was reserved. Apparently the people who had booked it had cancelled, but our table was reserved (something he hadn 't previously mentioned). We arrived at the already packed long table to find there were only 2 seats for the 4 of us. No problem for our suddenly industrious waiter, who made everyone else shove along until we were so packed that the meaning of an 'intimate dinner ' threatened to take on a whole new meaning."

Tito's

Tito's

4 Graham Road, Worthing, United Kingdom

Wine • Tapas • Drinks • Mexican


"He asked if we could move inside, but the waiter casually responded that the noise was the same in there. My husband tried to make the best of it and enjoy his meal, but the sound continued to be a distraction, so he went inside to see if the staff could do anything about it. They simply shrugged it off, stating that it wasn't their responsibility. My husband expressed that we were paying a significant amount for our meal and wine and just wanted to enjoy our evening without the constant interruption. The manager approached us in an aggressive manner, blaming us for the situation and suggesting we were ungrateful despite being the ones affected. He accused my husband of being aggressive, which was clearly not the case. He offered us the choice to leave or stay, and when the alarm finally turned off, we decided to stay. However, after reflecting on the conversation, I felt increasingly upset. The manager made us feel like it was our fault, and I struggled to enjoy my now cold meal. I suggested we only pay for our wine and the portion of food we had consumed. The manager then insisted we leave without paying and told us never to return. We left feeling embarrassed, angry, and disappointed—this was not how we wanted to celebrate our anniversary. To make matters worse, the manager later found me on Facebook to demand that I take down this review. I can't help but wonder how many others he has pressured into removing negative feedback."