Afters - Ilford Reviews Summary

Category: Ice cream shop

Address: 265B Ilford Ln, Ilford, IG1 2SD, United Kingdom

Phone: +442082271021

Rating: 3.6
based on 132 reviews.

Price

Pros:

  • "Prices are okay at Afters."
  • "Desserts were excellent with a wide variety of flavours and very cheap with all desserts between £6-£9."

Cons:

  • "It is a little pricey."
  • "Banana boat was a joke, didn't even have banoffee pie in it, it had 2 cheesecake and and scoops of ice cream and 1 banana all for 12 pounds what a rip off !!"
  • "Finally no cards only cash... what a joke, he should just pay his taxes and get a card machine.... needs to be reported to hmrc for tax evasion 😂"

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Everything made to order with beautifully presented."
  • "Great milkshakes from here. Whenever I am craving a milkshake it has to be from afters as it has the best taste compared to other shops milkshakes and speedy service."
  • "Most important staff is very friendly and helpful."
  • "Excellent service and seating very comfortable for 5 people in each booth."
  • "Best service I have received, very fast and all the staff were friendly and helpful."

Cons:

  • "Absolutely shocking customer service, wasn’t even greeted by the staff."
  • "Staff are rude and don’t listen to you and they don’t pay attention to what you actually want."
  • "Customer service is appalling staff taking orders charged me wrong three times because of not paying attention to the customer."
  • "Very bad experience. Rude staff. Kept pointing at us and told us to hurry up to order."
  • "Poor customer service, cookie dough wasn’t cooked properly, staff weren’t bothered after bringing it to their attention."
  • "Shockingly rude customer service. 'Cash Only' if you decide to walk-in and if you are pay with card the manager will lecture you on why it’s good to 'download Uber app and order online else pay cash'!!"
  • "Appalling! I walked in with my family and literally stood inside for 7-8 minutes without any of the staff greeting us!"

Quality of Food

Pros:

  • "The best shakes, thick and creamy. Faluda... Wow."
  • "We had waffle and Ferraro Roche milkshake. It was Fresh and delicious."
  • "Soooo good sweet desserts; ice creams, cakes, milkshakes, kulfis, waffles 😲... Nice staff and comfy place to chill."
  • "Awesome place for any dessert lover with a great selection of ice creams, cakes, waffles, milk shakes, etc."
  • "Overall good experience, they have huge variety of ice cream flavours."
  • "The mango Ice cream and Chocolate Fudge cake was perfect!!"
  • "If you love ice cream this is your destination, big choice, quality ice cream and large portion."

Cons:

  • "Cheapest quality ice cream, watery and tasting like chemicals."
  • "Ordered a slice of pineapple cake. Not even the slightest bit of pineapple or taste of pineapple."
  • "Purchased the whippy ice-cream but tasted awful. It wasn't creamy at all. It was very icey almost like a sorbet."
  • "Costly N poor quality, ordered falooda absolutely disappointed with taste and quality."
  • "The cakes are terrible and the falooda is the worst of worst."
  • "Too thick, chewy and dry."
  • "The cookie dough was absolutely atrocious, the milkshake was just depressing."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Nice cosy place to visit with friends, gets quite lively late in the day."
  • "The decor is all pink and black so looks spectacular!"

Cons:

  • "The whole place looks steamed up and tired."
  • "Not very clean. Average service. Dessert places are all about the atmosphere/ambience and this place is really lacking that."
  • "Inappropriate music videos are displayed and not changed even when families with children are in store."
  • "The music was so loud I couldn't even hear the girl at the till talk."
  • "The music was so loud I felt I was in a club at 1pm."
  • "Visited this place as it was one of a few dessert places open at around 11:30pm. As soon as I walked in, there was a very bad smell."
  • "Staff have an annoying habit of turning the music up too loud so you can't hear the person next to you."

Payment Options

Pros:

  • "Also they take Uber and just eat but still don’t take card if you go in person."

Cons:

  • "Cash only. Its year 2023 not 2003."
  • "They only take cash so don’t even bother going unless you got spare change with you."
  • "How can a business in these times not accept card payments, very strange."
  • "They don’t have any card payment facilities. Saving money from HMRC."
  • "No debit credit card acceptable looks like dodging the hmrc as well."
  • "You've been open 10yrs plus years you make good money and sell good deserts and your still trying to fiddle the books by only accepting cash."
  • "They are doing cash in hand business during covid 19 pandemic which is disgusting."

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