Giggling Squid - Henley Reviews Summary

Category: Thai restaurant

Address: 40 Hart St, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2AU, United Kingdom

Phone: +441491411044

Rating: 4.5
based on 148 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The quality of food is good."
  • "Servers amazing Thai Food which is really fresh."
  • "Food tasted amazing, beautifully presented and well described in the menu."
  • "The food is always to a good standard and very reasonably priced, and service very friendly and welcoming."
  • "The standard of Thai food was top marks."
  • "One of the most consistent and awesome Thai restaurants around!"
  • "The portions are good too and so you will not leave hungry!"

Cons:

  • "However, the food were brought to us less than 5 minutes after we made the order. It was clearly microwaved, the prawns very dry and chewy, although nicely presented."
  • "Tonight was a disaster! The rice was so badly cooked a sharp steak knife could not even cut into it, the squid smelt off and the egg fried rice I ordered was microwaved it was so hot it burnt my mouth!"
  • "Soft shell crab now gone and everyone at the table said how terrible their main course curries were - FULL of sugar!!"
  • "Green curry tasted very different and the jungle curry was like water with no flavour."
  • "Food was average quality and not especially goo value."
  • "The food has really gone downhill."
  • "The food was bland (Phad Thai) and inedibly over-spiced (massaman curry)."

Service

Pros:

  • "They labelled things v carefully and the allergen menu was easy to use."
  • "tommy and elena were both amazing waiters and the overall service was excellent."
  • "A very good dining experience with very friendly staff here!"
  • "The team were wonderfully friendly and attentive."
  • "All the staff were amazing giving great service."
  • "Staff very attentive and polite wheelchair access."
  • "Staff friendly and attentive."

Cons:

  • "Really bad service from all staff we encountered especially the manager on duty who has to be the rudest and strangest man I've ever met."
  • "We were a walk-in, and accommodating us seemed like a huge chore, even though the restaurant didn't fill up even once we'd left."
  • "Service has gone down hill since we last visited."
  • "They were somewhat understaffed and the service far from ideal but the food came out and we devoured it so all was good."
  • "Our starters remained on our table for ages and weren’t collected until after our mains had already been placed on the table."
  • "We had to keep looking around for someone to assist us and there was only 3 tables in the restaurant."
  • "We were never checked on throughout the meal so were unable to order any drinks."

Ambience & Decor

Pros:

  • "Great atmosphere and ambience that is also complimented by the food."
  • "The interior is so much more light and airy the decor is very pretty and clean."
  • "The atmosphere and ambience feel so calm. It’s well decorated, and there were lovely decorations."
  • "Restaurant is beautiful and the rest of experience was good."
  • "Beautiful decor, nice atmosphere."
  • "The restaurant decorations are perfect for Instagram pictures."
  • "The place has been nicely decorated giving it a great atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "Booked a table and was seated outside. Ended up leaving and not having a meal as the outside area isn't really suitable to put people."
  • "Sadly we had a bad experience last night at the giggling squid. We were seated in a booth to the back which had a constant rumble above our heads."
  • "We will never go back."
  • "The place looks pretty (so for a chic night out is a good place)."
  • "Dirty tables and floor, also toilets not inspiring."
  • "A fantastic old characterful building that's is wasted to an understaffed restaurant."
  • "Visited this week with my partner who uses a wheelchair, there was no accessibility information on the website so we assumed it was accessible - upon arrival there was a large step with no ramp access - so my partner had to get out the chair and I carried it in."

Value

Pros:

  • "Despite rising costs, they continue to be very fairly priced, so 10/10 for value."
  • "The menu offers a diverse range of vegetarian and non-veg dishes."
  • "The prices are excellent too."
  • "The lunch menu in particular is a real winner."
  • "Their tapa set was great! Loved everything about it! The taste, the balance, the presentation, it was delicious!!"
  • "The set menu is fantastic."
  • "The food was very fresh and tasty."

Cons:

  • "4*s because of portion size - I had the Paneung curry with chicken and my father the beef rib, both tasted amazing with the complex Thai flavours, sadly both dishes came up short in size."
  • "Nice food but slow service and over priced."
  • "An expensive restaurant with low outputs."
  • "Small portion sizes on the two choose lunch. Chicken was clearly not cooked fresh in with the food and just reheated."
  • "The main was flavourless we both ordered a chicken masaman curry but I’m going to take a wild guess and say you must have run out of chicken because I couldn’t find any in my chicken curry."
  • "The worst Thai meal I've had and nothing like any I've had before."
  • "Ordered tamarind prawns and they were overpowering and sweet with too much sauce."

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