Retreat Adlington Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "I personally had the Sunday roast Beef and it was all cooked perfectly."
• "The food tasted excellent and cost around £80 for 3 people."
• "The seabass was delicious and can also recommend the treacle tart with ice cream."
• "Food was faultless, tasty and great value."
• "All the different courses we had were excellent and cooked to perfection."
• "The food was delicious at a good price."
• "The food was absolutely superb."

Cons:

• "The food was absolutely DISGUSTING."
• "However for the main dish I had steak which I didn't feel the quality was worth the price."
• "Wagyu burger was like rubber .. chips undercooked, chili linguine was swimming in quite acidic tomato pasta sauce."
• "The steak and salad was poor value."
• "The wagu burger was burnt, dry and tasteless."
• "Food was mediocre and the pina colada was like tasteless diluted coconut water."
• "Food was expensive for the quality and felt more run of the mill."

Service

Pros:

• "The bar staff and waitress were very friendly and professional."
• "Staff are very helpful and friendly."
• "The staff were very friendly and attentive and I was impressed with the food, generous portions and priced really well."
• "Staff were attentive."
• "The staff were friendly at all times and when asked, had more drinks brought to the table."
• "The staff, and particularly our waitress were very attentive, friendly, helpful and nothing was too much trouble."
• "Staff really friendly and efficient."

Cons:

• "Very poor service paid the bill and didn't get any change think the waitress took it upon herself to keep my change !!!"
• "To say the service was appalling would be an understatement, the restaurant wasn’t overly busy as only the ground floor was being used."
• "Staff not interested and lack experience, takes too long to get served."
• "Service started off well but half way through there was no one around to serve for more drinks had to go downs stairs twice to get drinks and give up in the end and left."
• "Then food service was terribly slow."
• "Server not responding so had to approach her to get some attention."
• "The service was appalling, one meal was incorrect and came out much later than the others."

Ambience & Decor

Pros:

• "Lovely looking place from the outside and on the inside some of the decor is done nicely."
• "The restaurant ambience is very cool although the music is a little bit loud."
• "The style and decor is outstanding to look at in a church like building."
• "The converted church building makes it a quirky and interesting venue."
• "A lovely building used well with a nice tasteful interior."
• "Wonderful location and beautiful building."
• "Lovely restaurant with beautiful decor inside."

Cons:

• "The temperature in the restaurant was chilly, in fact one person kept her coat on the whole evening even when eating her meal!"
• "Parking tight, first impressions if the old church it was very noisy and smelled of fish."
• "It had been very cold when we visited, inside was just a touch on the cool side that needed a touch more heating."
• "The large open space was a little noisy but the decor and atmosphere were very nice."
• "The music is a little on the loud side and the visible messy wiring on the lighting could be made to look prettier."
• "There was 2 Light bulbs dangling at eye level on every table they blinding."
• "The music was so loud it impeded conversation. Felt more like a nightclub."

Value

Pros:

• "The menu is fairly varied and the light lunch menu is quite good value."
• "Prices are reasonable for the great standard."
• "Reasonable priced menu for the amount of food."
• "Portion sizes were excellent value for the price."
• "Prices are very reasonable."
• "The food here is gourmet at a fraction of the cost."
• "Food was good quality and served well."

Cons:

• "Over priced drinks."
• "Very poor quality for the price."
• "Ordered Wagyu burger for myself, Chilli linguine pasta for the wife and a childs pizza with drinks came to almost £50 and got to say it was very poor and definitely not worth the money."
• "However, the food, the main thing, is a let down."
• "Charging £20.00 tonight just to get in. Ridiculous."
• "Expensive for what you get."
• "Extremely high prices for basic food."