Tas Restaurant Borough Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The okra casserole from here is one of my absolute favourite things to eat at lunch time for work!"
• "Delicious food - meat and veggie."
• "The food is always fresh, seasoned to perfection."
• "The food was beautiful. Such wonderful flavours, so fresh, always service with smile no matter how busy they were."
• "The Tas Iskender mixed grill was so tender and more than enough shared between two as a main."
• "Everything that came to our table was very fresh and flavoursome."
• "The food is everything I hoped for and more, good selection on the menu, incredible foods packed with flavour and cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "Appaling food quality - excessive use of salt, couscous tasted stale, traditional dishes didn't taste authentic."
• "Sadly I can't give a better review. Was expecting delicious Turkish food, but unfortunately we both felt that the dishes were pretty tasteless, lacked flavour and seasoning."
• "Food was very bland, sea bass was dry and tasteless, also not very big."
• "Kalamar starter & dolma were delicious. Main meals - sea bass was over grilled and dry and bland; moussakka lacked salt and flavour."
• "Overpriced, very dry food."
• "Absolutely awful food and would most definitely avoid."
• "The food lacked flavour."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are professional."
• "Service was quick and professional."
• "Service is always good."
• "The service was exceptional....I cannot rate this place highly enough."
• "Service was very good, although you would expect that since they charge you for it."
• "Excellent friendly service."
• "Speedy and friendly service, very warm very friendly."

Cons:

• "The service wasn’t great, very slow."
• "Service was very very average, and they didn't bother asking how the meal was."
• "Poor service."
• "Service was not particularly attentive or cheerful."
• "Very poor service (our group three times had to collectively take our drinks order to the staff as they did not visit the table after initial orders to check for drinks or other orders)."
• "Service was very slow."
• "The waiters could be attentive as we were kept sitting forever until we had to call them to our table."

Price

Pros:

• "Pricey Christmas menu but excellent food. House wine reasonable."
• "Great food at a reasonable price."
• "For a white table cloth restaurant & the quality of the food, the pricing is very reasonable."
• "The prices are great, would recommend a visit here."
• "It's very reasonably priced."
• "Our overall bill was also not that much. It was within 40 pounds for two people."
• "Excellent meals, reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "Ended up paying around £80 for two people."
• "Went with the family yesterday and was really disappointed with the quantity of the food served, prices were exorbitant."
• "Not worth the price."
• "Expensive and cold food."
• "Prices were exorbitant and we paid around £30 per person excluding any drinks."
• "A bit pricey for what it ultimately was."
• "It was also in my opinion quite expensive for what it was and the quality."

Ambience

Pros:

• "The beautiful guitar music was so atmospheric."
• "Nicely decorated place with traditional live music (on Saturday nights at least)."
• "The atmosphere was chilled and pretty nice and quiet."
• "Firstly, they were top notch when it came to cleanliness."
• "The interior is rather nice, the music seems authentic although slightly fusion."
• "Don’t let the façade put you off it’s quite cozy inside with live guitar music in the evening."
• "The ambience is cosy and warm."

Cons:

• "Feels fairly run down inside."
• "The music was so loud everyone felt they had to talk loud to hear each other."
• "There is a live guitarist in the restaurant, so quite noisy."
• "Nice restaurant but zero atmosphere."
• "The choice of music (sounded like club music), however, made for a somewhat dissonant experience."
• "However, a bit cool in there."
• "A bit cool in there, a miscalculated bill and service charge of 12.5% added to bill."