Melon
Bramblings

Bramblings

Hither Green Lane, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom

Pizza • Steak • Cheese • Coffee


"I attended an afternoon tea at the Abbey with some of my family, and a combination of 4 children. (2 with disabilities . Upon arrival, we were directed to an empty bar area, only to look round for a member of staff to book in. After a good long 5 minutes or so we were greeted by a lady who tried to find our booking, But was looking at the wrong piece of paper. We waited again for her to find the right paper for the day and show us to our table. The table arrangement itself was beautiful. But there was no ambience or any music in the back ground. It was extremely quiet. Felt like the children couldn't speak loudly. The lady that seated us, came back for our drinks order and was immediately confused when asked her to bring 3 milkshakes and 1 squash (drinks part of our afternoon tea she asked numerous times what we wanted. This was slightly frustrating to say the least. Next we had our order arrive, with a pot of tea, but had to wait 50 minutes before we got any milk to go with it! This meant the tea was already cold and had to order a second pot. When the afternoon tea had arrived, it wasn't even our order! A poor family of a mum and 3 children were looking at us as they had arrived well before we did and it was obvious that the afternoon tea was theirs!! I helped the waitress take there tea over to them and I apologised. Finally, when the children's afternoon tea came, there were 4 fingers of bread,a couple of cakes and 2 scones. This was supposed to go between 4 children.....at £11 each child. £44 for this was not acceptable. I spoke to a lady in charge and said this is not what I ordered when I booked and the staff argued with me that this is what you get! So this would work out at 1 jam finger sandwich, 1 ham finger sandwich, 1 jam tart, a babybel and a half a scone for each child. £44. Jokers. Not on. I again complained and spoke to a duty manager. Again, being argued with is not fun in front of your family! She asked me what I needed to put this right! I said another children's afternoon tea would be great, she went off to do this! (Being the ever friendly manager, She Said we didn't have to pay for this extra children's tea Ha! So already we had waited over an hour to be served a very expensive piece of cake. I also ordered a gluten free afternoon tea between 2 adults. 3 finger sandwiches came out. How do you share 3 finger sandwiches between 2 people? And a mince pie from Sainsbury's cut in half. By this point I couldn't be bothered to ask anyone where the food was for the price I was paying!! Ridiculous! As for the children. They were very hungry and the 2 disabled children who had to wait so long were very upset when we left. It was a very traumatic experience. As we left, it was obvious that the staff were unhappy about having to help us there was 3 families in the area for afternoon tea so wasn't busy at all. The duty manager could have at least apologised instead of arguing with me . It's not my fault that whomever booked us in and advised us of how much food we'd need is clearly in need of more training. If you want a decent afternoon tea for your money, go elsewhere. It was a complete rip off and not so much as a treat at all, more like how much??? Where's the food?!! Didn't realise making jam sandwiches were so expensive! Feel really let down by the Abbey. Won't be booking again and will make sure everyone knows to keep their money! Utter shambles."

Carluccio's

Carluccio's

413, Trinity Leeds, Albion St, Leeds, LS15AY, LS1 5AY, United Kingdom

Coffee • Italian • Ice Cream • Delivery Services


"I have been meaning to try Carluccios for a while and I thought today would be my day as I was passing it in Leeds. My first impression was that a hoarder runs this place and it wasn 't a resturant at all, going into the resturant is like a shop. They is a place outside where I guess you wait to be seated, but I stayed their a few minutes and no one came. When I was finally greated by a member of staff when I walked in, I just thought she was an average person as I didn 't see her or any other members of staff wearing uniforms. I ordered Scrambled Egg with Salmon, i shared a laugh with the waiter and I told him Don 't make me pronounce it , they have a large gluten free menu with breakfast and gluten free bread, which was nice to see, it is just a shame that the bread was awful. Service was relativley quick with my drinks and food coming at the same time. I didn 't really like my coffee, it has quite a strong taste, I like coffee quite strong but it didn 't taste the quality it should of been from an itallian resturant. My meal cost about £7 and I still was hungry after it because it was such a small portion, I admit the scrambled egg was very rich and delicious and the salmon just sweetend the deal but I feel it still isn 't worth that price for how much food I got and simply I left hungry. My friend ordered Eggs Benedict and also had to pay quite a bit of money and he also left hungry and got a small portion. As I enjoyed my food, I decided to get something else from here, I can 't remember the last time I ordered a dessert, even as a young kid I never ate sweet stuff but today I ordered a sorbet, I decided to opt for Melon. I was delighted that the waiter offered to get me another flavour, she said you can choose 2 flavours because you get 2 scoops, some waiters would just leave it without telling me, it was nice she let me know that and I got a scoop of mandarin. The 2 scoops were quite large and cost £3.95. The sorbet was very cold as it normally is but I found the flavour to be quite nice, even though I found the mandarin flavour to be too overpowering the mix of flavours with Melon and Mandarin were quite enjoyable. I was confused that the frozen sorbet took 10 minutes as it is only getting it out of the freezer, one scoop, two scoop, then deliver it to my table which was quite close to the kitchen. They is a few charging cables so you can charge your devices. As much as I would love to give more stars, I can only give 3 because the food prices are just too expensive even if it is quite nice, as I left hungry and had to order a dessert, and my friend had to go to another cafe. It can 't cost that much to make a little bit of scrambled egg, salmon and 2 toast so they should be able to give me more for my money, if I got much more food I would of even considered full marks for this place. To sum up, the food is delicious but expensive and you leave hungry, as much as I would love to give 4 or even 5 stars, as I said the portion sizes and pricing just lets it down."