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Tai Pan

Tai Pan

Brunswick House, 81-97 Upper Brook Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

Vegan • Cakes • Chinese • Vegetarian


"We have visited Tai Pan now Tai Wu many times before. We love the food. Our children has come back for Easter and hence we decided to have lunch at Tai Wu, Manchester, Sunday the 7th of April. I did call up to book a place but was told that just turn up. So I thought, it must be quiet. Wrong!! Massive queue. Nevermind, you have to wait for good things in life. So we settled down to wait and eventually was led to a table. Wait for it, Table 13! Maybe that was an omen. We ordered drinks, starters and main course all at the same time. Drinks and starters were served in due course and then there was a long gap. We had some left overs from starters, seeing that the waitress gave us some take away boxes, which we thought were strange as usually that is given at the end of the meal. Still waiting. It was very difficult to get any attention of any of the waiters but eventually caught the eye of one. We explained that we have not been served the mains. It was getting late and we did not want to get caught up in the football traffic as Man Utd was playing Liverpool. The waiter apologised and we asked to take away the main course rather than eating there. That spoiled the whole experience. On top of that we had to pay for the service charge as well which should have been waived. I have emailed the restaurant about our experience but did not receive any acknowledgement and hence putting it out here. However, the food remains excellent and up until the mains, we were having a good time. Hopefully, this is a one off!"

Mister

Mister

Stowel Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NE1 4YB, Newcastle upon Tyne

Soup • Fish • Asian • Lunch


"My partner and I visited this restaurant with a Groupon voucher for a meal for 2 with freshly squeezed juice. Prior to the visit we rang to book, the young lady on the telephone had poor english and struggled to understand our request, we eventually ended up with a booking for Rachel not Richard as was clearly stated !!! On arrival we were seated and given 1 menu between us. It was then 45 minutes before anybody came to take our order. The waiter clearly did not speak english so we had to point to the menu and he wrote down the relevant code number. We ordered drinks, a glass of rose and a pint of lager. I was brought a bottle of rose and had to explain I only wanted a glass. When the drinks arrived I was given a wine glass about 1/3rd full, Im sure this wasn’t the correct measure and certainly not £4.95 worth of wine. I then noticed there was lipstick on the glass, I asked for this to be changed. The dirty drink was left on the table and a clean glass was brought which I refused. I was eventually brought a replacement this time 2/3rds full, so clearly no set measure being used. After some time a girl appeared with a tray containing 2 main courses, not ours, I explained we hadn’t had our starters and she went back with the food then tried to serve it to another table. Eventually our starters arrived and were ok, decent sized portion and tasty. Table was then cleared and there was a long wait for the mains to arrive during which I asked for our freshly squeezed juice which hadn’t appeared. The orange juice was poured from a carton at the bar, so clearly not freshly squeezed. The mains eventually arrived, my monkfish in a hot cantonese special sauce was sweet and sour and my partners thai green curry was a vivid shade of green. Both tasted ok but my “hot” sauce was very disappointing. The service was very poor and certainly didn’t make me feel welcome therefore I don’t think I will be returning anytime soon."