Spanakopita Spanakopita

A savory Greek pastry filled with spinach, feta cheese, and herbs, wrapped in flaky phyllo dough.

The House By Hilly Gant

The House By Hilly Gant

34 New Street, Braintree, United Kingdom

Wine • Full • Mexican • British


"What can I say….We held our wedding dinner and impromptu party ! on the mezzanine floor and had the time of our lives with our nearest and dearest. It’s been a pretty special place for us as we dined at the House by Hilly Gant to check the area out before moving from London and so as we were having a small wedding of 22 people we felt this was the best place to have our wedding. Suzanne and the team could not have done anything more to make our afternoon and evening so perfect. The food was outstanding and our guests were very impressed Harry and his cocktail making skills are second to none. Huge shout out to all the kitchen staff who’s attention to detail and timings were spot on. Leading up to the day itself Suzanne took charge and offered her expert advice on how to dress the room and made so much effort with our requirements. 3 children and 1 baby as part of the guest list! . The beef in particular was spectacular and the chocolate fondant was sublime. We honestly didn’t want to leave. After dinner Suzanne was able to crank the music up and we had a little party ensuring all the guests downstairs were still well looked after our friends were actually dining downstairs and were able to join us towards the latter part of the evening! From the bottom of our hearts thank you so much to everyone for making it so special for us. I’m not surprised that you were recently awarded your second rosette, totally deserved. For anyone looking for quality food, locally sourced, and beautifully executed this is the place to come. SEE YOU SOON and thank you again x"

The Optimist Kitchen Uplands

The Optimist Kitchen Uplands

59 Uplands Crescent, SA2 0HD, Swansea, United Kingdom

Vegan • Mexican • Western • Breakfast


"Must have been a bad day there?!? Took a long time to come, card machine playing up, flies I saw were walking over the quiches in the counter. It was a hot day, but they can still be covered up like other places do. Sorry, but that wasn 't Pad Thai! More like a Welsh equivalent and call it Bad Dai Firstly used the wrong noodles, more like cut up very soft spaghetti, not much of it too. A very few stems of beansprout, think a very tiny bit of tomato ketchup cooked in to give it an Asian taste?!?! Then most of it was a stir fry veg with no taste. The peanuts are dried, crunched and added to the top later, but this dish had full stir fried in much softer (old? peanuts thrown in when cooking. I don 't think this person has had pad thai before to see how wrong it is. I had to leave it, as it just wasn 't nice. Friendly enough staff at the till though, so I 'll give another star. For the eggs on fried potato, fried potato was ok, but probably upgrade the eggs as they were bland. Thought I had COVID for one minute for lack of taste, but no, popped in for something to eat a few doors away. If the chef reads this, DO NOT TAKE IT AS BAD, take it as constructive criticism!!! Go try Pad Thai other places, and ask them what they do. They won 't mind... Again, I 'm sorry as I cannot go back after that visit, but I always wish any business luck for the future, as I do realize it is hard."

Nikos Apostolakis

Nikos Apostolakis

139 King Street, Dumfries Galloway, United Kingdom

Pizza • Greek • Vegan • Vegetarian


"We arrived early for our booked table for six, after driving 350 miles to meet family, arranged a couple of months ago. We were told that our table had been given to another party who had arrived late and lingered over their food, and there was nothing that could be done, despite us hanging around for them to arrange a solution. While we were having this conversation another party of six turned up and were ushered past us and seated at a hastily arranged table right in front of us. Terrible customer service, compounded by the owner later attempting to get my wife to remove her review with an offer of a free meal at a later date. We don 't want a free meal in the future. We wanted the meal with our family that we 'd driven the length of the country to have. I would have expected the Greek owner to understand family values such as this. [Edited to add a response, as that 's the only way I can do so: At no time did I become aggravated , and we gave your staff plenty of time to sort out a solution. I think that you may have been rather misled by your staff as to how the situation unfolded, perhaps they feel that they need to present themselves in a better light than the actual events would show. Also at no time did your waiter ask us for five minutes . If he had, I would gladly and quietly have waited. I am sorry to say that all your protestations about how upset your staff are do not sit at all well after what we experienced on the day. Only one of your waitresses expressed any concern for us at all, and she was apparently powerless to act to make the situation better. No matter. Just another experience of poor service. I 'm sure we 'll survive."