jubington

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

1.5 Not Recommended

Food  3      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

Well what can I say, not a very enjoyable dinner at all. Though the food wasn't terrible it was the senior staff who ruined it all.

Firstly my friend went in to book us a table and when he asked how the night was looking the senior staff replied "busy, very busy!" My friend said “are you busy all night?”, "Yes busy all night!" My friend of course said "oh well I’ll try somewhere else then!" to which the senior staff then said “oh we can fit you in".

We arrived at 6:30 and noticed straight away that though he said it was busy there were only 2 other tables in there. We actually only had an hour to eat as we had to see a show so we called a waiter over and told him and said we were ready to order. His reply was that he couldn't take our order, only the boss could. So the senior staff comes over, we order, he then tells us that’s not enough we should order some more so we order another plater of meats.

The food starts coming out quite quick but the first thing I notice is that the Lady’s fingers, which normally have mince in them, are wrapped in filo pastry and are quite long, come out wrapped in spring roll pastry, have only fetta in them and some herbs, and are the size of a spring roll. Next a platter of potatoes appears to which I reply "we didn't order these." the waiter goes and tells the senior staff and he then comes over and rather than saying my apologies, goes on to accuse us of how he read our order out to us twice, but it's ok he will eat them for his dinner! He didn't read the order out twice and I never ordered any potatoes.

We finish the meals that are brought out and we are now waiting for the meats. We decide we better check as we really need to go so we ask a waiter and he goes and speaks to the senior staff who then comes over and tells us he thought we wanted a restful dinner so had split the meats from the rest as a main! We tell him no we never wanted that and we really need to go asap! He tells us the meats will be 2 minutes and runs off to yell at the kitchen which we can hear as its open.

Meanwhile, when all of this is happening he has been having some renovations done to the restaurant while people are dining and we get to hear the lovely sound of drill! We discuss this with the table next to us who aren't happy about it either! When we mention it to him instead of apologising he tells us it was only for a minute, as in why are we complaining?!

The meats arrive but it's too late, we have to run so we get up and go to pay, when we say we don't want to pay for the meats his reply is "this is a restaurant and you ordered them", before my friends can start an argument I say "don’t bother lets pay and go!" so we pay and one of my friends tells him we'll never be back to which the senior staff replies by patting my friend on the arm condescendingly and says "we are busy enough".

As you can imagine we left that restaurant quite angry and some words were exchanged with the senior staff telling us to go of, we ourselves never resorted to this language and wouldn't while other patrons were inside! So a very horrible night and I would recommend taking your business somewhere else! There are plenty of other Lebanese restaurants in the area, please go there instead!

Nov 12, 2011

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

We had a lovely meal here on a wednesday night. Had the lamb fillet, on polenta with salsa verde and amaranth and it was amazing. Will definitely go back!

Jun 23, 2011

7 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  6      Service  6      Value  7     

I've been here a couple of times and I can honestly say they have the best pizza and tiramisu around! The ambience is not the best, quite noisy and a bit squished but ignore all of that and just enjoy the food! It's proper italian pizza and you can tell it. Thin chewy pizza base, minimum of toppings but enough to make the pizza. bellissimo! And the Tiramisu is made by some old biddies in the back and it's marvelous. Sigh. Service is not the nest but as long as your pizza arrives who cares! Make sure you pre-order your tiramisu as they run out fast!

Feb 18, 2010

7.3 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  7     

Went here with a group of friends for my birthday and we enjoyed ourselves! We went with one of the Banquet menus and it was plenty, though I agree with Moneymin about the lack of meat in their dishes. Otherwise it was great tasting food and the service was good too.

Feb 18, 2010

6.3 Average

Food  6      Ambience  6      Service  7      Value  6     

I went to Dabar with a friend as we had a docket we could use so it was good value for that. Mediocre indian food, nothing amazing but definitely not horrible. The Lamb Rogan Josh was a little too salty for my liking though. Otherwise an average night.

Feb 18, 2010

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

1.5 Not Recommended

Food  3      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

Well what can I say, not a very enjoyable dinner at all. Though the food wasn't terrible it was the senior staff who ruined it all.

Firstly my friend went in to book us a table and when he asked how the night was looking the senior staff replied "busy, very busy!" My friend said “are you busy all night?”, "Yes busy all night!" My friend of course said "oh well I’ll try somewhere else then!" to which the senior staff then said “oh we can fit you in".

We arrived at 6:30 and noticed straight away that though he said it was busy there were only 2 other tables in there. We actually only had an hour to eat as we had to see a show so we called a waiter over and told him and said we were ready to order. His reply was that he couldn't take our order, only the boss could. So the senior staff comes over, we order, he then tells us that’s not enough we should order some more so we order another plater of meats.

The food starts coming out quite quick but the first thing I notice is that the Lady’s fingers, which normally have mince in them, are wrapped in filo pastry and are quite long, come out wrapped in spring roll pastry, have only fetta in them and some herbs, and are the size of a spring roll. Next a platter of potatoes appears to which I reply "we didn't order these." the waiter goes and tells the senior staff and he then comes over and rather than saying my apologies, goes on to accuse us of how he read our order out to us twice, but it's ok he will eat them for his dinner! He didn't read the order out twice and I never ordered any potatoes.

We finish the meals that are brought out and we are now waiting for the meats. We decide we better check as we really need to go so we ask a waiter and he goes and speaks to the senior staff who then comes over and tells us he thought we wanted a restful dinner so had split the meats from the rest as a main! We tell him no we never wanted that and we really need to go asap! He tells us the meats will be 2 minutes and runs off to yell at the kitchen which we can hear as its open.

Meanwhile, when all of this is happening he has been having some renovations done to the restaurant while people are dining and we get to hear the lovely sound of drill! We discuss this with the table next to us who aren't happy about it either! When we mention it to him instead of apologising he tells us it was only for a minute, as in why are we complaining?!

The meats arrive but it's too late, we have to run so we get up and go to pay, when we say we don't want to pay for the meats his reply is "this is a restaurant and you ordered them", before my friends can start an argument I say "don’t bother lets pay and go!" so we pay and one of my friends tells him we'll never be back to which the senior staff replies by patting my friend on the arm condescendingly and says "we are busy enough".

As you can imagine we left that restaurant quite angry and some words were exchanged with the senior staff telling us to go of, we ourselves never resorted to this language and wouldn't while other patrons were inside! So a very horrible night and I would recommend taking your business somewhere else! There are plenty of other Lebanese restaurants in the area, please go there instead!

Nov 12, 2011

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

We had a lovely meal here on a wednesday night. Had the lamb fillet, on polenta with salsa verde and amaranth and it was amazing. Will definitely go back!

Jun 23, 2011

7 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  6      Service  6      Value  7     

I've been here a couple of times and I can honestly say they have the best pizza and tiramisu around! The ambience is not the best, quite noisy and a bit squished but ignore all of that and just enjoy the food! It's proper italian pizza and you can tell it. Thin chewy pizza base, minimum of toppings but enough to make the pizza. bellissimo! And the Tiramisu is made by some old biddies in the back and it's marvelous. Sigh. Service is not the nest but as long as your pizza arrives who cares! Make sure you pre-order your tiramisu as they run out fast!

Feb 18, 2010

7.3 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  7     

Went here with a group of friends for my birthday and we enjoyed ourselves! We went with one of the Banquet menus and it was plenty, though I agree with Moneymin about the lack of meat in their dishes. Otherwise it was great tasting food and the service was good too.

Feb 18, 2010

6.3 Average

Food  6      Ambience  6      Service  7      Value  6     

I went to Dabar with a friend as we had a docket we could use so it was good value for that. Mediocre indian food, nothing amazing but definitely not horrible. The Lamb Rogan Josh was a little too salty for my liking though. Otherwise an average night.

Feb 18, 2010