Bistrot Pierre - Derby Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food is always flavourful but I only go for the lunch menu."
• "Love this place, great food and service, staff so friendly and efficient and excellent value for money."
• "The food is consistently good and they always serve us in good time despite us going mob handed (20 of us went at Christmas!)"
• "The quality of the food and presentation was excellent."
• "This restaurant provides absolutely DELICIOUS French cuisine."
• "The food was really tasty."
• "Absolutely exquisite food: parfait to die for, one of the best blue steaks I have ever had (cooked to perfection & soooo tender!) & a totes delish dessert."

Cons:

• "The food was dreadfully and over priced."
• "The tiniest thimble of peppercorn sauce nowhere near enough for the meal."
• "The turkey was sliced from a roll, dry and tasteless."
• "The risotto was terrible, the soup of the day was smelly."
• "The Salmon main course was really disappointing. Dry, bland and overcooked."
• "Food was at best tepid duck was very tough."
• "The pork was tough and the chicken breast was dry."

Service

Pros:

• "Great ambience and service and well as great food."
• "Very helpful staff, who very kindly, relocated our party of 7 down stairs instead of the first floor due to access reasons."
• "As I have use a wheelchair I was rather concerned about access. But I needn't have worried, my friend and I were seated in a spacious area with easy access and all of the staff were wonderful."
• "the staff seemed to handle it very well :) the staff were friendly and great."
• "The staff were polite and attentive."
• "Service was exemplary and they were attentive and helpful."
• "Service was quick and the staff polite."

Cons:

• "Upon taking the mains away, we complained about the chicken, the waitress shrugged it off."
• "Service very poor."
• "The service wasn't good at all."
• "Tonight food ok service was not good 1 of the waitress was awful literally threw my starter on the table and then my dessert exactly the same."
• "Service - poor - they were slow, understaffed and poorly managed."
• "The staff can be a bit rushed off their feet at peak times."
• "Overworked staff, producing a poor level of service."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Good value for money."
• "Love this place, great food and service, staff so friendly and efficient and excellent value for money."
• "Pierre's has a great menu with plenty of choice and a very reasonable price for 2 or 3 courses."
• "A reasonable price for a good meal."
• "However, portion sizes are noticeably smaller, fixed price menu is significantly less, very limited and no longer I feel it is value for money."
• "Good choice on the early diner prix fixe menu, 2 courses for £14.95."
• "At £12.50 for a cooked breakfast with a hot drink and a large fruit juice it was excellent value for money."

Cons:

• "You could probably order something better in Weatherspoon's and pay less."
• "Very expensive, not a lot of food."
• "Very disappointed we spent almost £100 and we were still hungry."
• "The food was absolutely atrocious and very expensive for what we were given."
• "Overpriced for the standard of food served."
• "Average food for an expensive price."
• "Definitely overpriced and not as good as it used to be."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Previously a big fan. Great ambience and service and well as great food but on this occasion not the case."
• "Great atmosphere and good value lunchtime menu, plenty of choices to be had."
• "It was great to go out for a meal to a familiar place."
• "Love the ambience."
• "Restaurant itself had a nice feel to it and good atmosphere."
• "Great atmosphere, buzzing on a Saturday night."
• "The atmosphere of the restaurant is calm and peaceful, easy to eat and relax here."

Cons:

• "It was as busy as you would expect from its reputation but was lacking in every department."
• "Being Friday night it was noisy and we had difficulty hearing what each other was saying until probably after 9.30pm until people started to leave."
• "The restaurant is very noisy though and the table we sat at under the aircon was drafty and cold."
• "Very noisy but you don't notice after a while."
• "The atmosphere would have been okay accept you couldn't hear yourself think."
• "You are packed like sardines."
• "It is also unbelievably hot."