Yara Restaurant Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The staff were really welcoming and friendly."
• "Nice friendly service and ambience. Great you can take your own wine."
• "Food and service was excellent, staff extremely polite and brilliant atmosphere."
• "We were greeted with a smile and seated quickly in a smartly decorated dining area."
• "Service impeccable! Food absolutely outstanding highly recommend the mezze you get to try a combination of everything."
• "The staff were attentive and friendly."
• "Staff are always lovely and friendly and will make the effort to acknowledge any celebrations."

Cons:

• "The service wasn’t very great and I was very disappointed with the fact that there wasn’t wheelchair access to enter the premises."
• "Waiter was very arrogant... was completely speaking on phone and without one word to us during the whole time we were there."
• "The staff can be a little grumpy and very rarely crack a smile."
• "Sorry to be the bearer of bad news we visited here last night... but the way we were treated by what was supposed to be the manager was so unfair."
• "But the service was average. Forgot one starter and one main, no service for drinks in-between meals."
• "Service was rushed, waiter rolled his eyes when we asked could he just take starters for now."
• "Went here for family meal, staff where quite rude as they basically dropped the plates down onto the table."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Delicious food, nice staffs and quiet atmosphere Restaurant."
• "Amazing food, can see why regulars go."
• "Highly recommended for everyone. Affordable prices, on point with the food didn't wait that long."
• "It's value for money as there is so much food."
• "Easily in my top 10 restaurants, the food is so good. It doesn't matter what I order off the menu, the quality is always 10/10."
• "Great food at v reasonable prices."
• "Food is incredible and delicious."

Cons:

• "The chicken skewers were slightly undercooked."
• "Hygiene of this place is absolutely disgusting, food left on the floor in a dirty ally at the side of their restaurant next to waste bins."
• "The food wasn't proper Mediterranean style, I can't have junk food from any fast food shop and enjoy it more, they are treating the customers as ignorant."
• "The Tabakh Rawou was also very poor. Very mild flavour with huge, spongey chunks of aubergine and soggy courgette."
• "The Fattoush salad was very bad. It was low quality ingredients with little flavour."
• "Service was non existent chicken was old and smelly falafel was not anything like falafel rest of food was average."
• "The food we ordered this evening was disgusting."

Ambience and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Nice friendly service and ambience. Great you can take your own wine."
• "A really lovely restaurant which welcomes families."
• "Yara was nice and clean, pleasant atmosphere, food was really nice tasted authentic."
• "A hidden gem! Whilst service was a little slow, the friendly professional staff and incredible authentic food made it an unforgettable visit."
• "Great little restaurant just outside the centre of Altrincham."
• "The atmosphere was pleasant and the waiters very nice."
• "The decor and overall ambience of the restaurant is lovely."

Cons:

• "We were very cramped."
• "Only issue is that conversation in the main dining area is loud perhaps because the space is small and there is apparently no sound absorption."
• "The restaurant acoustics and noise level from other tables was so high we couldn't hear people on our table talking."
• "I visited this restaurant recently on a Friday night, it was very very noisy."
• "The staff were incredibly rude. Every single member of staff looked as if they had worked a 48 hour shift in a war zone."
• "I love Lebanese and Syrian food and the food here is good but i couldnt give it 5 stars because i found it very cramped."
• "The food was very good but let down by the service."

Value and Pricing

Pros:

• "Highly recommended for everyone. Affordable prices, on point with the food didn't wait that long."
• "Great food at v reasonable prices."
• "It's value for money as there is so much food."
• "The ability to take your own drink, with exceptionally low corkage, is good."
• "Very reasonably priced too."
• "Food is amazing. Lovely restaurant and very reasonably priced."
• "Lunch menu is excellent value for money."

Cons:

• "Somewhat pricey and you need to really like meat, lots of meat."
• "Rather disappointed they've started charging corkage on BYO wine, especially as it was a screw cap and I actually opened it myself!"
• "Came for the buffet. Food was nice and there was quite a lot of it. Just not sure it was £25 worth of nice."
• "The food is lovely. It's a little expensive for what it is but well worth a visit."
• "The food was very expensive for what you get."
• "A little pricey but then it is on the Altrincham/Hale border."
• "OK food but the 'banquet' is overpriced."