Redroaster St James Street Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Great service, great food on the bottomless brunch menu (eggs benedict was delicious) and plenty of prosecco to go along with it."
• "Staff really were excellent...would definitely go again."
• "Service was quick and staff were friendly."
• "Staff super friendly and service quick although it wasn't busy when I visited."
• "Overall Service was great, and organisation between the staff made it more valuable."
• "Service was warm, personal but efficient enough."
• "Fantastic staff who make time to be friendly and extremely welcoming."

Cons:

• "We sat for an hour at the table without being approached at all by any staff."
• "The waitress serving us was clearly hungover and admitted as such. We had to ask for everything twice and even then she still forgot things."
• "They didn’t seem to care when we left… and didn’t even bother to respond to my email."
• "The service was also really slow and we had to order our drinks 4 times and didn’t even get the last order within the 90mins time slot."
• "Terribly slow sloppy service with lots of excuses about being 'so sorry we're soooo busy.'"
• "The service overall was very slow, staff were avoiding eye contact, forgot drinks."
• "We walked out after 20 minutes because we couldn’t catch the eye of the three staff members who were stood doing very little of anything at the bar."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "We stopped in for a gluten free brunch and it was DIVINE. So few breakfast places take care to season each composing element of a dish, but not here! Every bite was delicious and perfectly seasoned."
• "Best avocado toast I’ve ever had! I added poached eggs to mine and they were perfectly cooked."
• "The roast cod on rosti was very good."
• "The food was well prepared, fresh, simple and tasty."
• "For breakfast we went for the full English and Chili Eggs. Presentation was on point for both, and the full English was not greasy at all...well cooked and presented."
• "The food was incredible and the service was warm, welcome and accommodating for our dietary requirements (vegetarian)."
• "The food was excellent!"

Cons:

• "Completely ruined by the fact the front doors are left wide open and the restaurant is freezing."
• "Food was good but I thought a little expensive for what it is."
• "But they were disappointing and seemed just like the ones you can buy at the supermarket freezer aisle, with a bit of parmesan on top."
• "The club sandwich was quite bland and the prawn toast was too oily completely destroying the lobster."
• "The pork and beef were quite dry and were on the smallish side. The carrots and broccoli were ok, but not great."
• "Food came out luke-warm, and extremely bland."
• "The main grievance was the extremely small portion sizes that did not reflect their excessive prices."

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

• "Love this place so much. Such a good location as it's close to many bus stops and the pier, and the interior is lovely!! Very bright and modern vibe."
• "The overall vibe of this restaurant is great, very cool decor and good music."
• "The decor is delightful, spacious and pretty plants."
• "Maybe the place is a bit too instagrammable and maybe the ambitious food ideas don't always come together as coherently as they should, but the setting is really elegant, light filled, airy and comfy."
• "The atmosphere was inviting."
• "The atmosphere and interior of this place is nice and pretty."
• "The interior is bright and airy with plenty of natural light."

Cons:

• "Not impressed by the glitzy makeover - styled somewhere between a cosmetic surgery waiting room, self-service canteen and a hairdressers."
• "The restaurant also had a huge bbq next to our table and they kept cleaning it with all the dust coming to our direction."
• "The atmosphere and cleanliness has taken this place from being sophisticated to just another standard issue hen do bar."
• "Garden area felt very noisy due to the crowd and layout."
• "Bland and lacking any real atmosphere."
• "Slow service, no one asked how the food even was - standard protocol for restaurants."
• "The tables were too close together, my £9.50 button sized burger did nothing to appease my appetite."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "The food arrived promptly and was very competitively priced."
• "The evening dinners are of higher class and excellent. But yet remained decent pricing!"
• "All this for £15.90."

Cons:

• "For drinks with very little alcohol in them, 1 main and 1 side, we paid almost £50pp which is equivalent to the amount we paid for dinner & 3-4 glasses of wine each at a Michelin restaurant the night before, so I would not recommend this restaurant for bottomless brunch based on the experience I had."
• "We would have had to have 7 mimosas each to make it worth the money..."
• "There were only 2 very bland drinks options for bottomless brunch that we paid an extortionate amount for."
• "If you’re going just for food then it’s fine, as the food is nice, but if you’re going for bottomless brunch please avoid. It’s £40+ and you get really watered down alcohol."
• "The coffees were small for such expensive prices- £16 for two coffees!"
• "It was pricy and with the taste I would not say it is worth it."
• "The bill was 36.66.what a rip off."