Côte York Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Delicious food and top notch hospitality."
• "The food was excellent the beefcheek was really tender, the coq au vin was lovely."
• "Visited for a meal with family, amazing food and fantastic service."
• "The shallots and minted petit pois with the lamb were excellent."
• "The French Breakfast was absolutely amazing!! Best black pudding I've ever had."
• "The food was superb, and the attention to detail given by the staff was top notch!"
• "The Fillet steak is to die for as well as all the fish dishes."

Cons:

• "Green beans with steak turned up 5-10mins after main and weren't cooked."
• "Even though the sirloin or ribeye ordered on previous time were excellent, the steak frites this time is hard to cut through or to chew."
• "Fougasse - dry."
• "The croque monsieur was just a greasy mess and tasted sour."
• "The only complaint regarding food was the risotto was a bit too hard and lacked depth of flavour."
• "I found the beef bourguignon too heavy with garlic and salt."
• "Steak was not rested long enough and not rested under a heat lamp as was cold, pork tenderloin was not tender haddock goujons were bland and tasteless!"

Service

Pros:

• "The staff was very pleasant and helpful."
• "The restaurant had the champagne ready at our table. The whole evening was perfect."
• "Very impressed... also handled my 4 year old very well."
• "Absolutely brilliant service by all staff."
• "All the staff were friendly and welcoming."
• "Superb service and genuinely lovely staff."
• "The service was quick and the staff were friendly."

Cons:

• "Not very friendly staff, felt a bit rushed and ‘in the way’."
• "Very slow service. 2 starters came after everyone else had long finished their starters."
• "Service was incredibly poor, I don't know if they were understaffed or just not interested."
• "We had to wait for too long for anyone to come over to us to ask for the bill."
• "Service was shocking felt ignored to be honest."
• "After an hour's wait our main courses arrived without the starter even coming."
• "I was waiting to be seated with my friends for 10 minutes after waitress checked and never said anything."

Ambience & Location

Pros:

• "This was a breath of fresh air after looking for ages for decent place to have lunch in the centre of York."
• "The ambience inside was a nice respite from the hectic touristy streets outside."
• "This place had a great, busy atmosphere."
• "It's much bigger inside than it looks from the outside and it's close to the Minster, too."
• "The food was delicious, and having a quiet table at the front of the restaurant with a window seat allowed us to enjoy both the excellent cuisine and a charming view of the street."
• "Lovely place in the centre."
• "Gorgeous decor and very clean amenities."

Cons:

• "The restaurant got quite hot on a normal night."
• "Awful ‘ambience’ music playing incessantly and too loud."
• "Nice place but a bit disappointed."
• "The restaurant had several tables not cleared for entirety of our visit and the bathroom was not clean."
• "Didn't even get to sit down. At approx 5.45pm 4 people in front of me were given a table at the back of the restaurant. I was immediately refused a table for one."
• "On a table was left weekday menu...a bit of mess seems like only few people at the front of the house know what they doing."
• "Stood outside waiting but no one in sight at 8am. Several customers tried door but found it locked well after 8am."

Pricing & Charges

Pros:

• "Well priced for the standard of food that you get."
• "Always a consistently good meal, my feeling used to be its expensive for what you get but I do feel now that prices have caught up."
• "The prices were very reasonable and the service was good."
• "Such good value for money."
• "Value and quality, two things that normally don't go together."
• "The quality of food could not be faulted with the highest quality products being used and beautifully cooked too."
• "For a well established upmarket restaurant, I was very surprised with both the cost and value for money."

Cons:

• "The only downside was the 10% service charge (optional)."
• "Plus the automatic “optional gratuity” is a joke at 12.5%."
• "Only issue is the 12% gratuity that is automatically placed onto bill."
• "The addition of a 12.5% service charge which you have to look out for."
• "They have the nasty American habit of adding a 12.5% tip to the bill."
• "Taste of food = acceptable. Prices = less acceptable. 12% mandatory tips on the bill = not acceptable."
• "A £8:75 service charge was an absolute joke."