Albert’s Didsbury Restaurant & Bar Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "For the quality of the food I have to say it was very good value."
• "The food is really tasty and they have a good range of vegetarian food."
• "The food is always fresh, hot and divine on the pallet."
• "Food was of good portion and high quality."
• "Wow the food here was amazing 👏"
• "The food was amazing the prawn cocktail was the best I've ever had."
• "Absolutely loved the starter, I had Rabbit gnocchi...melts in the mouth and very filling."

Cons:

• "Considering our bill was £488 I was SO disappointed and expected so much more."
• "The standard and quantity of food was extremely disappointing."
• "I ordered the Artichoke & Truffle Ravioli, very interesting dish, but it was tasteless (needed salt) and very small (only 5 pieces)."
• "It was quite literally like eating pure salt."
• "The food was tasty but a very small portion and everyone still starving afterwards."
• "Both dinners had quite obviously been reheated in a microwave, the beef was fatty and well done, the roast were hard."
• "The food turned stone cold in 2 minutes meaning if you didn’t wolf it down it was ruined."

Service

Pros:

• "The service team are great."
• "All the staff were lovely and accomodating."
• "Staff were amazing and so friendly."
• "Customer service was 2nd to none."
• "The staff were attentive and amazing as well."
• "Our Waiter Andre was so friendly, professional & efficient all at the same time."
• "Staff were super friendly and nice."

Cons:

• "The service was absolutely terrible too, the waitress served us had to be asked three times for some serviettes and small plates."
• "Service was slow, not the fault of the waitress, she just had too many people to deal with on her own."
• "Service: average, but the manager apologised for that."
• "Overall a terrible experience and nobody appeared to be in charge to register our complaints."
• "Service was unsatisfactory and very poor!!!"
• "Service needs to be improved."
• "The service can be a little slow."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Set a great atmosphere!"
• "Great venue for date night."
• "It has a lovely atmosphere and staff are great."
• "Great ambience, good Italian fare."
• "The venue and atmosphere was nice."
• "Great ambience with great music."
• "Such beautiful and classy decor inside and out."

Cons:

• "It's very popular which means it can be crowded and noisy."
• "Just under the AC and it was blowing cold air."
• "The venue and atmosphere was nice, but no candles on table and we was on a table that rocked back and forth."
• "The atmosphere is lovely, it's just hard to make yourself heard above the noise."
• "The atmosphere was very noisy because the restaurant was very busy."
• "A table near by were very drunk and loud Resulting sadly in our evening being spoilt."
• "Only slight downside is that the tables are packed very closely together and it felt a bit cramp."

Value

Pros:

• "£15 for two courses! Such good value for money."
• "Excellent food and decor makes the food prices even better value."
• "The two course special for £12.50 is exceptional value for money."
• "Good value for 30£ food."
• "Had a lovely lunch here and dined from the set menu which was fantastic value for money."
• "Great portion and food was lovely!"
• "Reasonable prices, good portion sizes."

Cons:

• "After paying £21.50 per head I would estimate that each person had possibly £3.50 of food - if that."
• "The food itself was laughable for £21.50 a head."
• "Drink are good but expensive and although expected, my experience wasn’t worth the cost personally."
• "I was happy to pay £9 for a starter but what arrived was not good value at all for the quality."
• "Food was nice, but not worth the wait or in my opinion the price."
• "The food portion is small cold meals and they don’t serve Lamb any more."
• "The food was distinctly average and overpriced."