The Belgian Cafe Reviews Summary

Beer Selection

Pros:

• "They have a great selection of beers."
• "Beers = SIMPLY FANTASTIC!! Just for the vast selection of craft beer available on draft."
• "It has over 50 Belgium bottled beers."
• "Superb Belgian influenced beers brewed on the premises."
• "The Saison beer was the best I have had."
• "With their Abundance of beers ales and cocktails from around the world you wont be disappointed."
• "A nice place on the seaside with a great selection of local beers and seafood."

Cons:

• "Beer cloudy and warm."
• "In both cases we found the beer to be distinctly unpleasant and so ended up leaving both unfinished - which is not something we’d usually do."
• "Had high hopes as I’m a total Belgium lover... Bottom line is that no self-respecting Belgium Cafe would serve their own beer in someone else’s glass."
• "Ordered a beer that never came."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff were amazing, the food was excellent."
• "Staff were attentive and friendly."
• "The service is always lovely, great host and big smiles, they take time in getting the right order for you."
• "Staff are friendly and helpful providing excellent service."
• "The staff and managers are always super welcoming and dog friendly."
• "Staff very pleasant and helpful."
• "Staff friendly and helpful."

Cons:

• "Terrible service, consistently got drinks orders wrong, brought out one diners starter after others received their main course."
• "However their service was so poor last night (Saturday) we actually left."
• "The staff are nice but generally a little slow and inattentive, but other than that good all round."
• "The waiting staff are smiley but in that slightly disconcerting way that makes you wonder they have any idea what is happening around them."
• "Service was bad, was to busy watching football to pay us attention and had no idea of the drinks/food menu."
• "Took almost 40 minutes to get served when the place was empty."
• "We waited 20mins to get drink and 50mins to get our starters."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "All were very tasty."
• "The mussels were good and cooked to perfection."
• "Took my wife for a birthday meal she loves fish and wasn't disappointed wonderfully cooked and presented and mine was to die for."
• "Great food, especially the mussels and a fabulous selection of beer."
• "A fabulous meal tonight. Starters were a selection of tapas dishes to share. Mussels were brilliant and the whole crab was superb."
• "The food we had was mixed, the soup, seafood bisque, was only okay and my Russian mussels were good not great but my ladies red curry style was absolutely amazing."
• "Food = good Atmos = good Service = good Location = good Value = good."

Cons:

• "Although the restaurant has good reviews, the quality of some dishes is not good enough for the price."
• "Felt sorry for the lovely waiters however the food was below par, along with waiting over an hour for our main course."
• "The German sausage was good, the chicken wings were dry, the king prawns was average and the macaroni cheese with chorizo was horrible."
• "The oysters were served with wing sauce instead of Tabasco, a poor substitute."
• "The worst food in the city. Fish and chips wasn’t worth it the price fries was soak with old oil."
• "Fish and chips with more chips than fish, the fish was unflavoured."
• "Chowder was not good, sea food pasta tasted like it just come out of freezer i.e. no flavor, bologna pasta tasted burnt."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Also worth noting the out of place eclectic ‘decor’ that ranged from gothic / dungeon, through blue neon, to Chinese all you can eat buffet table and chairs all in the same room."
• "The dining atmosphere is casual and cosy."
• "A great place to relax and unwind."
• "Lovely lively Ambience."
• "Good pub with live music in the evening."
• "Very relaxed atmosphere, great staff and the food was tasty."
• "Such a wonderful atmosphere. Live music at weekends."

Cons:

• "However, the place is too expensive (15-18£ for a pot of mussels) and the tables incredibly sticky."
• "Toilets are disgusting hand wash is watered down and loos don't flush, not good particularly during these times."
• "Toilets was discussing smelled with urine."
• "Place needs a makeover, decor is tired."
• "A beautiful space has been made pink around the gills with sickly neon backlighting."
• "Everything is dirty from cups to sticky tables and chairs."
• "The standard went terrible down."