Street Urchin Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Lovely food, great service & good wine suggestions too! Generous portions, balanced flavours and great attention to details too."
• "Delicious combination of tastes with seafood/fish a dominant but not exclusive theme."
• "The sauce was very good and special and is a must try. Being half full already, I indulged myself with a crispy pork chop. It was HUGE!!! So yummy that I couldn’t help myself finishing all."
• "The food was the best we've had in Manchester and the portions were very generous - great value for money!"
• "The food was incredible, the service was top-notch, and the atmosphere was perfect."
• "The food was beautiful! Presentation AMAZING! Just off the charts."
• "Every dish was just exquisite. The flavours in every one were distinct."
• "What a great restaurant. Wish it was local to us !! We had the courgette flower and carpaccio, followed by the pork steak and scallops."

Cons:

• "Very underwhelming experience. Not much finesse and flavours unbalanced and all over the place."
• "The scallops were tasteless, and the sauce was tasteless, too. Rabbit was not only tasteless but also dry."
• "The mussels were completely overpowered by chilli. The partridge was accompanied by a sludgey sauce that had very little taste."
• "The pigeon, which was a day special, was overcooked and chewy, while the monkfish main was a small portion of monkfish with a huge amount of curry sauce."
• "The bisque was tepid, sticky and so much tomato that the seafood couldn't be tasted."
• "The menu is too extensive and the execution is poor; flavours not balanced and texture like mush."
• "Eating the mussels and kept crunching on what I thought was shell but turned out to be tiny crabs."
• "We had such an amazing experience. The food is so delicious and flavourful, the portions are generous and the staff was really friendly."

Service Quality

Pros:

• "The servicing staff are all very friendly and attentive."
• "Service was great, as expected. Would definitely recommend!"
• "Immediately received a warm welcome which continued with great service. Very polite and thoughtful."
• "I had an absolutely amazing dining experience at Street Urchin last night. The food was incredible, the service was top-notch, and the atmosphere was perfect."
• "The staff are an honour. We’ll definitely be back as they change the menu very often."
• "Fantastic little hidden gem. A very cosy restaurant with lots of attention to detail, from the staff to the menu it did not disappoint."
• "Visited last night and the positive reviews of this gem of a restaurant are well deserved. Our food was incredible and the service staff very attentive and friendly."
• "Had a great time at this place last Sunday! The kitchen uses high quality ingredients in their dishes and it's evident that a lot of thought goes into each dish! The service was superb."

Cons:

• "We were waiting over half an hour to order more drinks, we tried to catch someone’s attention several times but were ignored even though they weren’t really busy."
• "The service was slow but competent."
• "Weather was really bad on sat when walking into town and I was bursting for the toilet I went in and asked could I use it the lady said I had to be a customer so I offered to buy a drink she said I had to book which I obviously hadn't as this conversation is going on another lady comes over asking what the problem is I explained and she was very rude to me."
• "You called to confirm the booking and I had told you “I’m sorry, I completely forgot about making this reservation” to which you RUDELY responded “You only made the booking today” (I made it early in the morning (12am, basically the night before), the YOU laughed at me and abruptly then HUNG UP."
• "The owner spoke to us as we paid which was a lovely touch."
• "Very nice, fresh, tasty food. All cooked very well for a great price. Staff are friendly."
• "Even though this has taken me a couple of months to come back and write, I wanted to as this place is SO GOOD! We had SUCH lovely dinner here, the hosts went above and beyond to make sure we had a great dinner and I can't wait to go back!"
• "The staff at Street urchin were great. We were served by a couple of different people and all were very happy and smiling (albeit the face masks)"

Ambiance and Location

Pros:

• "We are very glad to have found this place! Lovely food, great service & good wine suggestions too! The music was just right and the lighting was absolutely spot on as well."
• "Lovely, quite intimate restaurant on the ground floor of an apartment block."
• "Very cosy place with not many tables."
• "Such a lovely place, especially for plant lovers, so cosy and welcoming."
• "Lovely interior with loads of plants."
• "They’ve done a fantastic job of designing their restaurant which hit us immediately upon entry. A lovely mix of modern industrialism met with complementary lighting and a pinch of mid-century detail."
• "It's a great energy' so spiritual in places and a vibe that is fresh and light, love the calmness in the place, transported to another world in parts."
• "Great interior with loads of plants around, staff is very polite and helpful."

Cons:

• "The only thing I would like to see improved is the temperature. It felt very hot and stuffy upstairs to the point that I started sweating!"
• "A bit of a walk from the center, but definitely worth it."
• "Check their opening time as they don’t do long hours and close on Mon/Tue."
• "But do come and have a visit! 7.5/10"
• "The atmosphere was nice and chilled and the service unobtrusive."
• "Visited this restaurant on good Friday and was incredibly disappointed. Great reviews but completely unjustified in my opinion. Firstly the decor was mismatched, I wasn't really sure what they were going for and compared to other restaurants in the area this made no sense to me."
• "The atmosphere being pretty much non existent."
• "A family run restaurant with freshly cooked food and great flavours. An interesting and varied menu, with daily specials, mean the only problem is trying to decide what to have."