Maries Cafe Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The dishes I ordered (pad thai, prawn toast, and Thai iced tea) were cooked/made fresh to order, and the portions are generous and filling."
• "The satay was the best."
• "The food is delicious and this is one of my favourite Thai restaurants in London."
• "Delicious, authentic Thai food in Lambeth and you can't beat the honesty of it."
• "The food is great (I had the red Thai curry with Duck which superb irrespective of the price)."
• "The vegetable pad Thai and the massaman curry which were super tasty!"
• "Food is absolutely delicious we were in two and we had 2 starters and 3 mains and Good honest authentic Thai food and great service."

Cons:

• "Never had a chicken dumpling so inauthentic, even I make better dumplings at home."
• "The presentation was okay but the duck was strongly smelly and beef was very salty and smelly."
• "Food came out quickly, but was somewhat flavourless and rather mediocre."
• "Relatively tasteless food with chilli sauce you can buy at the supermarket."
• "The green curry had NO flavour, just sweet, no lemongrass or lime leaf."
• "The actual food is made of cheap substitute ingredients and lackluster cooking."
• "flavour wasn’t great, everything was sweet even the food marked as spicy"

Service

Pros:

• "Great efficient service."
• "The staff are efficient and polite, highly recommended, a definite must."
• "Staff will get you seated as quickly as they can and food is served quickly."
• "Very quick efficient service, great value for money."
• "Wait staff are helpful, friendly and service was amazing."
• "The service friendly."
• "Service was quick and the price point is very affordable."

Cons:

• "Very rude attitude and bad service."
• "Disgusting customer service, horrible bending of rules when convenient."
• "A perfectly nice outing ruined by disgusting disgusting service."
• "From the get-go, staff were rather unfriendly and short."
• "We were treated very rudely then the waiter said 'go home' under his breath"
• "The staff was on the edge of rude which upset my friend."
• "Although the Thai food was quite nice. The server was not."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "For less than 15 quid I got a beer, chicken satay side and green curry."
• "So great food, great but unusual atmosphere, bring your own beer, and great value for money."
• "Its also BYOB so you can pair great food with great wine -- and it won't break the bank."
• "With affordable prices and dishes that fulfil your cravings for Thai flavours."
• "The dishes are all very reasonable under £10."
• "Curry and rice is around the £10-£11 mark which is great given location."
• "Very reasonably priced, delicious food."

Cons:

• "Overpriced and underwhelming!"
• "A beer, a coke, chicken satay, prawn crackers, rice, chicken pad se ew and a duck dish for total £36?"
• "The bill isn’t itemised and we’ve figured out after leaving that we were overcharged."
• "Total rip off. Tiny portions. And really really poor, lazy, thoughtless cooking."
• "Now it's overpriced, the food is not better than any local take away and the portions are small."
• "portions are tiny and expensive"
• "My portion of stir-fry prawns was tiny for the price."