Leave It To Esmie Reviews Summary

Portion Sizes and Value

Pros:

• "Indeed the best Caribbean food in Coventry. The Jerk Chicken was flavoursome and freshly grilled."
• "Absolutely delicious food here! Couldn’t choose a sauce so I asked the server what he recommended, he recommended a garlic sauce and I did not regret it."
• "Visited last Sunday There was 6 of us. The food was amazing. Between us we all had different dishes and all of them were ten out of ten!"
• "We came here for my dads 60th yesterday and I have to say the service and food were excellent. Portions were just the right size!"

Cons:

• "For £10 each I found the portion to be quite small."
• "But paying £10 for sauce and salad with wings that turned out to be 2 chicken chunks is awful."
• "However, wings and fries were £10 and they charged us £8 for a portion of wings - we got FOUR wings for £8."
• "£13 for each portion of Jerk and £8 for 4 wings 😭 It's very underwhelming."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The goat curry was delicious, wasn’t as impressed with the jerk chicken, very gristly. Dumpling was very good, food was all fresh, and piping hot."
• "First time eating at leave it to esmie and wow what a treat it was had a starter king prawns with pico de galo, oxtail stew with fried dumplings and plantains."
• "The jerk chicken bowl was very nice but not peppery enough even though I asked for hot, it was a well balanced meal."
• "The food here is excellent, particularly the jerk chicken. Prices and portion size are good too."

Cons:

• "The lamb was very tough! The 'chips' which were fries were cheap."
• "Ordered a chicken dumpling burger and i'm sad to say that it was very disappointing. Priced at £12 I was expecting something wonderfully flavourful however it was far from it."
• "The jerk chicken skewers were very, very bland. Although I must admit, you get a large serving of chicken but chicken that has no flavour other than the burnt coals it's cooked on."
• "The food took 50 mins after ordering to arrive on our table even though it was really quite. It was really dry and lacked seasoning and flavour."

Service and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The staff were friendly and pleasant, the establishment had a good atmosphere."
• "Great venue, atmosphere, music and food! Highly recommend it and can’t wait to book again."
• "Another absolutely BANGIN' night at Esmies HALLOWEEN MURDER MYSTERY! The whole evening was AMAZING as ALWAYS!!"
• "Thank you to Carol for looking after us with attentive and such friendly service and the Chef's for such wonderful food."

Cons:

• "On top of this the place was not busy at all and I had to wait almost 15-20 minutes for my burger."
• "We ended up waiting for 1.5 hours exactly before our food was served - this is by far the longest I have ever waited for food anywhere in my life!"
• "However service was very poor. Thirty minutes after our order was accepted we received our drinks!! It took just short of an hour for any food to arrive."
• "Dined at this place today for the first time and it was terrible. Most of our orders were incorrectly prepared. Our order took over half an hour to serve."