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The Boat House

The Boat House

Springvale Road Seaview, Isle of Wight PO34 5AW, PO33 1PJ, Ryde, United Kingdom

Beer • Cafés • Steak • Coffee


"We revisited tonight as had a lovely meal last week!! It was like walking into a completely different pub. Service was beyond slow, and when provided with menus advised that they were sorry, but, there was a lack of items!! We ordered drinks first, 20mins and watched them sat on bar for 10 of those, in the end had to ask the young girl who was stood doing nothin, could we perhaps have them to drink, rather than just look at them. We then asked if we could order and she advised she wasn't doing the ordering so had to wait for the young man to arrive. When he did we checked about the lobster as was having our last meal of our holidays and he had previously advised what wasn't in the menu. Advised yes, they had this 20mins after ordering was advised that actually, they didn't have it and something similar they could offer was a monkfish...... (no words to that really). Left us with the menu again and just kept walking past us despite trying to get his attention so we could reorder the missing lobster meal. He just kept sodding about on his iPad thingy and ticking of the tables. During this time also, a gentlemen walked up to the bar to say he was extremely concerned about his groups meal as it was now over an hour since they ordered and no starters had even been served. He proceeded to cancel his starters as they were fed up with the ridiculous delay and lack of any service. With that, we echoed his sentiments and advised we were actually leaving as not prepared hand over our well earned money to an establishment who had got it completely wrong tonight and they weren't even busy. In fact I'd say they weren't even a quarter full. Menu is very expensive and although the food we ate last week was good, it wasn't fantastic. But the 3 ladies who served us were really lovely which was why we had decided to revisit tonight on our last night. Big mistake on our part and extremely disappointing for us as ruined our last evening."

Bill's Restaurant Bar Wimbledon

Bill's Restaurant Bar Wimbledon

20 Hartfield Road, SW19 3TA, London, United Kingdom

Steak • British • Mexican • European


"had never visited this chain, but it was eager to try something. had not booked, but came midday and were sitting fast, and informed we could pay about the QR code on the table (very helpful).) decided to order a set meal to try how...has never visited before something I would recommend to anyone who first visit to try as it allows them to experience a series of things. the food came out when it was ready in stadien that was good, all hot and tasty. some dishes that we were more enthusiastic than others, but that was just our own personal taste. pork pibil I thought I would love, but was not a favorit, (to Smokey/Leder tasting for my palette,) shattered fish tacos delicious, like the bohnen feta tostadas. both of our favorites but (and a BIG surprise for us) was the sweet kartoffel feta taquito. simply beautiful, crispy, tasteful. will be reordered if we visit safely. we were warned, our side order of habanero mais on the cob was spicy, but to my taste it was not and had had a bit more of a kick. we have gloomy that we had with churros (natural) and a “Mexicon Mass” (the version of an eton mess). we were slightly uncertain that the ‘Hibiscus’ meringue was possibly too flowery, but it wasn’t such a beautiful desert. Great eating, nice helpful staff and we had luck getting a table from a Saturday afternoon as it soon became very busy with a nice mixed amount, a nice atmosphere produced for lunch. very happy customers."

Bill's Restaurant Bar Wellington Street

Bill's Restaurant Bar Wellington Street

21 Wellington Street, WC2E 7DN, London, United Kingdom

Soup • Fish • Meat • Steak


"I booked Bill 's Covent Garden well in advance for my 50th birthday meal. There were 11 of us altogether. We left our unfinished cocktails at Tequila Mockingbird in order to get to Bill 's in time for our booking at 7.30pm. We arrived in time and were told that the table was not ready and to wait outside. We waited for 30 minutes during that time no one came out to update us on what was happening. When a member of our party asked when our table would be ready and explained that it was for a special occasion the manager said and I quote 'Everyone here is special '. We were not implying that we were more special than other diners, only that it was a special occasion and having to wait 30 minutes in the cold with no explanation was not a great start. When we were finally seated we were given no table water until we asked for some 15 minutes after sitting and it took a further 20 minutes for anyone to come over to take our drink order (after having to go and ask! A member of our party spoke to a senior member of staff (unsure if manager or deputy manager about the situation and that what was to be a special occasion was turning into a terrible night. Then the manageress (short blonde hair not sure of name came over and interrupted the conversation, was very rude and aggressive claiming we were being deliberately obtrusive. When we explained how long we had to wait, the lack of awareness and service at our table and that what was to be a special night was being ruined she seemed to calm down and two bottles of complimentary prosecco sent to our table. We then had a further extended wait before our order was taken. Between when we arrived at 7.30 and when we received our food was an hour and a half. The managers left before we asked for the bill and were not around to support the staff when we found discrepancies in the bill. The manageress of this Bill 's was terrible and had an absolute lack of any customer service whatsoever. She would not acknowledge that the long wait times were a problem and in fact implied that we were the problem. The wait staff however were lovely and understanding of our situation. This was a memorable birthday but not in a good way. Avoid."