Whole Seabream
3rd Avenue

3rd Avenue

3rd Avenue, Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom, BN3 2FP, Brighton and Hove

Steak • Coffee • British • Vegetarian


"Picture it, Saturday brunch time last week…the restaurant was nearly empty but for 2 tables (4 patrons total). The heat must have been broken because it was freezing and when asked if they would turn the heat on the waitress brought a tiny space heater…the type you may use under a desk in an office. These should have been red flags telling us to leave but the decor was cute so we stayed. The mysteriously stained cloth napkins also would have sealed it if we’d seen them from the beginning. We started with tea as it was still very cold where we were seated. The Dozie Girl special blend sounded nice so that’s what I ordered. The waitress indicated she wasn’t sure they had it so I said ok if you don’t, I’ll have the peppermint. The tea arrived with the paper tag and string still bundled around the bag sitting in the cup of hot water…not a teaspoon, sugar, or honey in sight. We asked but they never came. Ok, maybe a mistake, I mean we’re only in England it’s not like you should know how to serve a cup of tea. Then came time to place our food orders. Turns out they didn’t have 2 out of 3 of the fish orders my brunch companions and I wanted. So we all had the Gambas (prawns). We also ordered the manchego truffle fries, pardon peppers, and broccolini. Oh, we ordered cocktails too, prior to the food orders but they came some time after the food and they were fine (no complaints on the drinks). The food however left a lot to desired, like flavor. I was searching for taste with every bite but by the time I finished the 3 prawns that came on the plate I could not find any flavor. Pardon peppers were fine. Fries were disappointing as the waitresses talked them up a bit the cheese wasn’t even grated properly and the broccolini arrived cold. I’m not sure who was in the kitchen but one of my brunch companions theorized that the B team was on and it wasn’t that they didn’t have the ingredients for the other dishes, it was that the person didn’t know how to prepare them. I’m not ready to give this much credit. If you do decide to stop by make sure you’ve eaten before and order cocktails but be prepared for the 20 to 30 minute wait before the drink is in your hand. P.s.: the toilets "

Black Horse

Black Horse

Windmill Rd Fulmer, Buckinghamshire SL3 6HD, South Bucks, United Kingdom

Pubs • Cafés • Seafood • Mexican


"This was without a doubt the worst dining experience that I have had in many years. Upon arrival we were seated in the dining room which was very quiet with only one other table occupied. We then waited minutes before we were offered a drink. Thirty minutes in our food order was taken, at which point we were told there was no steak'. There were six main courses on the menu, two of which were steak which all three of us had intended to order. Unabashed we ordered two soups and a gravlax starter, were were then told that there was no gas working in the kitchen and that some of our food would have to be prepared in the adjacent farm shop Our starters were OK' at best. When our main courses arrived they were.. Fish Chips, tepid and dry. An over cooked, barely warm burger and a plate of the most unappetising, inedible muck I have ever been given. Ham, egg and chips. I didn't try the ham or the chips, as the eggs were ice cold and rock solid (I was later told that they had had to be cooked in the oven as there was, yes, no gas). Why a restaurant would operate in this way I have no idea. If you don't have the facility to cook, stop seating people in your restaurant and trying to wing it' I returned the food and asked for the bill. When it arrived the H, E C had been taken off, this was the only concession that was made. The waiting staff were very apologetic, the person whom I assumed was the manager, not so much. She seemed genuinely put out that we were unhappy! We received our starters an hour after we were seated and our mains minutes later. I said I would not pay for the main courses as the whole thing was a fiasco which was met with the retort you ate the burger I said that if the mains weren't taken off of the bill I wouldn't pay anything and so they were grudgingly removed This pub/restaurant is far from cheap, but I have eaten a there lot. The food is usually good, sometimes very good, but this was unacceptable in every way"

Two Brothers Fish Restaurant

Two Brothers Fish Restaurant

Regents Park Rd, London, N31DP, N3 1DP, United Kingdom

Tea • Fish • Seafood • Cocktail


"Two visits in a week during our London visit to this well-known and reputed fish restaurant. The first visit was on the Sunday, and when we walked in and saw the place completely empty I remarked as a joke that we hadn’t needed to book!...This met with a fairly snarky remark from the lady who worked there, but she was to become borderline hostile later. My son, aged when ordering, asked her politely and civilly how big the cod was (not wanting to order more than he could eat); the lady responded by asking him, in an unfriendly and unhelpful manner, how she was supposed to answer that and that the sizes all differed; she then said “It’s the same size as the haddock” (which I had ordered) which was pretty unhelpful, given that we hadn’t seen the haddock either! It was an unnecessarily hostile response to a polite something like “It’s quite big” or “I’m sure you’ll be able to manage it” would have been far more appropriate and helpful. As it happens, the portions were huge, and the food was excellent great haddock (in matzomeal) and cod, and fabulous chips. The chocolate cake dessert went down well too. The only negative in terms of the actual meal was that the tea I ordered got forgotten about until some way into the meal, but the waitress did remember of their own volition and did apologise. When we returned on the Friday, the same lady was her same unfriendly self. Impressively, she had remembered us from a few days earlier (even though there were now of us rather than just the of us,as they had been on the first visit), and, again, the food was terrific. Whether this place takes the view that its food is so good that it doesn’t need to be especially pleasant to the diners I don’t know. Whether something gets ‘lost in translation’ with this waitress (who speaks with a foreign accent) I don’t know. But I know that when we talk now about this restaurant all we talk about is the unfriendly waitress as opposed to the top-notch food."