BANDO BOXES Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Very tasty, the seafood is full of flavors."
• "The best food experience I had today will continue to order food from them."
• "Everything tasted amazing and was cooked to perfection."
• "The quality is better than most restaurants, everything was cooked perfectly and tasted incredible."
• "Food perfectly seasoned and nothing bland about it at all. Perfect spice and big portions."
• "Food: 10/10."
• "The lobster rolls last week were flavorful and worth every penny."
• "Ordered the lobster and prawn box and honestly it was some of the best food I’d had for a while!"

Cons:

• "The chicken was red and inedible and everything else was just as bad."
• "Firstly the peri wings were overcooked and black."
• "The salmon was disappointing (small amount and very low-quality fillet)."
• "The seabass tasted as if it had been frozen, no flavor at all."
• "The chicken the prawns the mac and cheese the salmon. Rather go subway and I don’t even like subway anymore."
• "The jerk marinade was falling off the chicken and didn’t taste too great."
• "The chicken just doesn’t taste cooked thoroughly."
• "Overpriced for mediocre food."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "A* customer service - UberEats could learn."
• "Wonderful experience at BANDO BOXES. We were greeted with friendly smiles."
• "I love the food here, and I'm always amazed at how friendly and helpful the staff is."
• "Customer service is really good too! My husband is a fussy eater and we both literally could not pick out anything that could be improved!"
• "Customer service is as good as the food. Definitely recommend!"
• "The best Ambiance and restaurant you can find in Manchester, the service is incredible."
• "The staff is extremely friendly, the food is delicious, and the atmosphere is relaxing."
• "Thank you very much for your excellent service."

Cons:

• "When we got the food we had no cutlery or tissue which is needed with this sort of food."
• "The grumpy guy ignored my question."
• "The guy behind the desk who took my order was extremely rude and miserable, wouldn't rush to come back."
• "Wouldn’t even give this review 1 star after the experience I had."
• "PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW!!!! AVOID!!!"
• "Staff were very rude! No manners and terrible customer service."
• "Very very poor quality food, was looking forward to trying the food as pictures looked great, What a mistake that was!!"
• "Absolutely shocking experience. First of all, we’re given 1 hour 40 wait for the food."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "We got the Man Vs Food box which consisted of lobster, wings, prawns, Mac n cheese, peri fries, fried plantain, corn on the cob and waffles and we got a box with bando chops and wings and all the same sides as the other box and we were absolutely blown away at how amazing everything tasted!"
• "BANDO BOXES has halal food! It's so important to me to be able to eat foods that are safe for my family, and it's great that there are options out there."
• "The food was great and the service was even better! I recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for a place to eat."
• "First time trying food like this and I wasn’t disappointed one bit! Everything was seasoned perfectly and had a little kick which I like."
• "The mac and cheese was so gooood! The hero of the dish was the shellfish followed closely by the wings!"
• "Best place to eat in Manchester especially for takeout, started going here a couple months ago and it’s become a weekly thing."
• "Usually would give 5 stars but went there today ordered the bando box for £20 and got the smallest lobster tail of my life alongside a measly 5 prawns."
• "This used to be my favorite place for soul food in Manchester."

Cons:

• "For £36 I should have been full and instead, I was left still hungry."
• "Paid £37 for 3 standard boxes. The seabass tasted as if it had been frozen, no flavor at all."
• "Terrible food portions, not worth the price at all."
• "It was expensive and not worth most of the price."
• "The mac doesn’t have enough cheese to be called mac & cheese, wings were about 6/10."
• "The prices seem to be a little higher than other restaurants in this area, but it's still worth it!"
• "Ordered at 6.30pm for food pickup 8.15pm, food finally ready at 9pm!! £25 for Man v Food box which was smaller than my mrs £12 Salmon box!!"
• "There’s only one thing to say AVOID spent £36. On the seafood platter was looking forward to this after seeing it on Fb."