Route Dalston Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food tastes very light, but good."
• "The salads are amazing! Trying the salads is a must and the vegetable lasagne at lunch time was amazing."
• "Absolutely delicious, worth the money and high quality healthy food."
• "The food is not expensive and the quality is awesome!"
• "The food here is really good."
• "The Mediterranean platter was a feast of flavors."
• "The food was very tasty, great variety of options."

Cons:

• "Essentially, I paid almost £26 for fries with bacon and cheese and a cider...DISGUSTING THIEVING RESTAURANT."
• "Avoid the pancakes: caked in yogurt and fruit compot and honey and nuts. The pancakes were bland with no taste of their own."
• "The pancakes were excessively sweet."
• "RUBBISH. I was served a stone cold steak onglet dish."
• "The pulled lamb was good but not my favorite."
• "The vegan jackfruit shawarma had that much flavour, and half of the dish is made up of plain rice, which was a bit boring."
• "It was more like extremely oily, chilly, liquidish mixed veggies."

Service

Pros:

• "She made a comment that we should understand that they are busy people are human."
• "The staff are super friendly and helpful."
• "Very friendly staff, soya and almond milk as dairy free options."
• "The restaurant delivered a perfect surprise for the birthday girl and it was a really touching moment."
• "The staff were relatively friendly too."
• "Staff are also very friendly."
• "Good service - polite, friendly, and accommodating."

Cons:

• "After splitting and paying our bill, we were about to leave when we were told we had underpaid by £25."
• "Can't get over the slow and nonchalant service."
• "The waiter forgot parts of our order and got some of it wrong."
• "After having much patience, we told a waiter about our experience, and he told us we had to get up and go and find the supervisor."
• "I'm sure the food is lovely, at least it looks mouthwatering. That said, we never even got there as the service is appalling and slow."
• "I waited in line to order a coffee for 5 minutes and was completely ignored, so I left."
• "Staff weren't attentive, with several chatting amongst themselves behind the counter and others too busy looking down on their phones."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "Lovely space, nice buzzing atmosphere and amazing salads."
• "The interior is soo cool! The most inspiring place ❤️"
• "It is my new favourite place, very cosy with a great atmosphere."
• "The shop interior is very pretty and clean."
• "The interiors are lovely."
• "The location and decor are beautiful."
• "The place was really nice, the interior was aesthetically pleasing despite the building works outside."

Cons:

• "The place was quite good, but it lacked the X factor for me."
• "Our lunch date was constantly harassed by a fly, which also made me question how hygienic is the place."
• "It's tightly packed but they can't magically create more space for people."
• "The fairy lights fell on us in the middle of the meal."
• "It's not spacious enough, you end up elbow-wrestling with the unknown person you have next to you."
• "We were a couple, and were sat on an 8 people table right in the middle, in-between strangers."
• "We went quite late in the day (16:30ish) and a lot of the food was off the menu, incl cocktails."

Value

Pros:

• "All I can say is that I highly recommend!!!"
• "Therefore the price-performance ratio is great."
• "Beautiful Monmouth coffee to go alongside."
• "They also offer vegetarian and vegan options."
• "They also have a good selection of TA wines which is handy."
• "Considering the portion sizes the prices seemed very fair."
• "Meals start at around 10 pounds, that’s 10 pounds well invested in my opinion!"

Cons:

• "Additionally, the dish I wanted to order was no longer available, making me question what is the point of having it on the menu."
• "The portions, I have to agree with other reviewers, are on the small side - especially when a lot of places in the local areas offer the same stuff at lower prices."
• "We ended up getting OVERCHARGED by £5 because the waiter added the wrong items together."
• "I don't feel comfortable recommending a place when they can't even acknowledge their wrongdoings privately."
• "Nice veggie food, over-priced by a significant amount however."
• "Pretty expensive - especially cause our coffees were not great."
• "Only thing is the portion sizes are quite small."