The Original Third Eye Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Fab service and good portions too."
• "A very friendly atmosphere with welcoming staff who really make you feel at home."
• "It's quite a small restaurant, with exceptionally friendly staff."
• "Staff all very friendly and helpful."
• "Staff very friendly and service always efficient."
• "The staff are extremely pleasant, very attentive, a quick service and the food was great."
• "The staff were so welcoming and attentive, very interesting to hear about the origins of the dishes."

Cons:

• "It took almost an hour and a half to arrive, and then came without ordered rice."
• "That completely dismissive and rude service, to a customer politely calling to resolve a simple issue with an order, is absolutely appalling."
• "Never again, you let yourself down through your greed and bullying tactics."
• "We did find the service was slow, they opened late and had a mop and smell of bleach right at the front door."
• "Staff where not attentive and a little rude."
• "The second time around I went, I found the waitress to be quite rude and blunt rather than informative about the dishes we had questions about."
• "When questioned about it, the staff were rude and didn’t want to hear any of it which was disappointing."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "As well as the food being amazing, the price was too. Just over £60 for poppadums, two starters, two main courses, rice, two breads, and two pints of lager."
• "Genuinely the best Nepalese food I have ever eaten."
• "Absolutely stunning food, some really original dishes."
• "The food is top notch. Affordable and relaxed."
• "I highly recommend the Korma, Shia Lamb Kurma Badami (very tender lamb!), Peshwari Naan and the Mushroom Rice!!"
• "Fantastic, good quality authentic food and best we have ever had."
• "The food is awesome especially the Chilli Chicken."

Cons:

• "Food was 50% oil and not good quality at all."
• "Both dishes were tasteless, cold and seemed to have been reheated."
• "Curry horrendous."
• "The samosas seemed like they were cooked days ago (or fried in cold oil, very soggy) and the bhajis seemed undercooked."
• "Fish was overcooked, chicken tasted strange."
• "Currys were ok but very oily."
• "The chicken tikka masala and tarka daal were bland and dry."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "The food and service rated high with us."
• "We will definitely be back, I’ve not taken many photos of our foods, I thought about it a little too late, but this shows that we really enjoyed our meal."
• "They opened the restaurant out of normal operating times so we had the restaurant to ourselves, this was done with no extra charge."
• "With all that praise said the one thing we enjoy as a family about this restaurant so much is the portions and value for money."
• "Prices are very reasonable."
• "We agreed on a very reasonable price of £25 per head this included 4 starters, 3 main dishes, naan and rice!"
• "Delicious food, excellent service and a nice relaxed vibe at Third Eye... great value for money."

Cons:

• "A jug of mango lassi was £13.90 which is so overpriced."
• "This wasn’t very cheerful and arguably not cheap enough for the lack of cheer."
• "The only set back are the portions and it is very small and charged exorbitantly."
• "Just ok. Portion sizes small."
• "Overall, insanely overpriced for not great food."
• "Mains were tasty yet over priced and starters where very small and not good value for money."
• "£15 for a chicken korma was a bit of a joke."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Great location in Didsbury."
• "One of the best restaurants in Didsbury."
• "Consistency is remarkable."
• "With a limited number of tables and a very understated ambience and lovely calm atmosphere smiley upbeat service and amazing tasty food is what keeps people coming back over and over again."
• "Pleasant atmosphere."
• "The level of flavour in the food has reached new heights. The balance and use of spices is paramount in their dishes."
• "Nestled in between the pubs and bars of Didsbury village, this understated restaurant is a firm favourite with the locals, simply because the food is ridiculously good."

Cons:

• "Disappointing to see a 15% service charge on the bill at the end without informing us of this at any time."
• "Didn't offer a children's portion and didn't even entertain a smaller option for her."
• "They don’t care about the humanity."
• "All tasted the same - of salt and corriander."
• "£13.00 for a lamb dansak was absolutely disgusting we shared it between two of us and we left most of it and biryani was even worse."
• "It was very poor. We did not finish any of the dishes we have ordered."
• "This is the worst restaurant I’ve ever been to within the Greater Manchester not one bit authentic at all, they should be ashamed serving people, this quality of food in the cost of living crisis all the meat is at the lowest quality I’ve ever seen coming out of a restaurant."