Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
barryw
yes the old moonflower was a great place, used to be a regular not so much now
the alloment is a great place very customer focussed
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Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
- Posts: 468
My money is on Table Table for this one. (Premier Inn)
They have rapidly gone down hill with quality of food (I swear I just hear the ping of a microwave), time it takes and service. Some of the staff, not all, love to come to work to socialise with their colleagues rather than serve their customers.
There you have it...my local restaurant review
Keeps politics to myself
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
helen;
All i can say is that at every visit i have made there, the food was great and the service superb
there, my review lol
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Guest 774- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 498
I prefer a Marston's (Kittiwake) to a Table Table. Much better menu and service...
"If it ain't broke, fix it til it is."
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
I have had the pleasure of dining in most, if not all, of Dover's major restaurants, and have had many a fine meal. However I have also had a couple of duff ones too! What makes or breaks a good evening out is dependent on many things but in the end it comes down to an opinion, one mans meat is onther mans poison and so on. If I had had a meal/evening as bad as this diner experenced then I would A) Complain at the time and B) tell my friends, after all, expressing your opinion is not (yet) an act of libel. I look forward to the restaurant in question being named.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
A true story for you! A 'hungarian' restaurant in Dover now closed,once had myself and my wife and a couple of friends for dinner. On arrival I asked where they kept thier cheese, as I am rather fond of a good cheese board. They replied that all cheeses were kept in the fridge. I asked that a cheese board be prepared for me now and so left out of the fridge, to be ready for me later, to which they agreed.
A couple of hours later and I asked for the cheese board, which duly arrieved, pipeing hot! Haveing forgotten to take the cheese out of the fridge they had made up the cheese board, biscuits, salad et al and nuked it in the micro-wave!!!!
There is, as they say, a first time for everything!
Guest 774- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 498
That's a fantastic story, Phil...
"If it ain't broke, fix it til it is."
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
that must be the one at the end of cambridge terrace now an indian, must admit to liking my cheese at room temperature, much more flavoursome.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
Yes! Right first time Howard!
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
Sad story number 2. A couple of years ago I was in a restaurant in Snargate St, the menu offered 'Deep fried Camembert, hand rolled in bread crumbs by our chef and served with a red current sauce, hand made fresh every day!' Whoopee! I'll have some I cried.
Imagine then the surprise when I was served two small roundels of rock hard whatever, warmish on the outside and with ice in the middle and served with what looked a lot like jam!
At the same time my companion asked for the wine list and instead was presented with a tray on which stood two red and three white bottles of wine, he was told that there was no wine list but that this was the wine,'I'll have two of those then please' he offered
'sorry' came the reply, 'but this is the wine, all of it!'
Oddly enough I've not been back!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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they must lie in wait for you phil, still not as bad as the experience of jacqui's party though. anyway i have been notified of the name of the establishment by a third party and they are not a current advertiser - sorry peter i know that must have hurt.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,335
Strange coincidence Phil, I too ordered deep-fried Camembert from Cullin's Yard Restaurant a while back to find out that when it arrived it was battered and tasted of fish
Needless to say I sent it back and had the pate which was quite nice.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
I am going out for a meal tomorrow evening with my wife, Jo. Just in case anyone from any restaurant who may have read my stories is looking for me I shall be in disguise, I'll be the one with a bag on his head!
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
I often use Chapter Eight in the Market Square.Its Cheap,the food is good,and as much of it as you can eat.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
Our lunch today in The Allotment was excellent, only had 2 courses, well not including the complimentary salad they provide while waiting for the mains that is.... I only had the burger, real beef, a burger made how it should be, washed down by a glass of English wine and a serving of ice cream to finish.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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not cheap there though barry, more of a special occasion for most people.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
The burger was £10 Howard. Not expensive. There are a lot more expensive places around, I always find it excellent value for quality fresh food not the microwaved stuff you get in a lot of chains.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Used properly, a microwave can add much to a commercial kitchen. I have always used them for certain things. But they have to be used sensitively and the food has to be good in the first place. The problem with the 'ping' chains is the sh1t quality of the product. Michel Roux couldn't get that stuff tasting good, with or without a microwave.
I once ordered the 'HOME-MADE red onion and goat's cheese tart' at Miller's, only to be told that it was unavailable owing to problems with the supplier.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
How very true Peter, I would have hated not having the microwave when we had The Ravens. I always cooked the spicy chicken breast in it, so much quicker than the conventional oven. I still use it to cook some things especially syrup pudding as that only takes about 4 minutes instead of hours steaming.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352