Paco's Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food itself was excellent quality and hot."
• "The food was great, I had the T-Bone, which was cooked perfectly."
• "The food is to die for, if you go you have to try the chimichurri chicken, make sure you're hungry as it's half a chicken!"
• "The food was fantastic and as it was lunch time, very reasonably priced."
• "Food was cooked perfectly, received in a prompt manor to a very high standard, presentation was excellent."
• "The food here was absolutely fantastic, we both had steaks which were cooked to perfection."
• "The food was magnificent, I had for starters the Stornoway Black Pudding, and my partner had the Prawn Cocktail - both were sublime."

Cons:

• "I didn't enjoy it infact I left quite a lot of the meal."
• "2 out the 4 steaks were very over cooked, prawns add on were terrible."
• "Portion size poor for starters and the pasta dishes for main meals were salty where we were unable to eat."
• "Even the orange juice was disgusting, the food was disgusting."
• "The others had pizza that none of them could finish because they were under-cooked."
• "The food was absolutely awful! With the mash definitely frozen mash!"
• "The food here was absolutely awful. Mozzarella sticks straight out of the freezer. Pasta sauce straight out of a jar."

Service

Pros:

• "Menu comprehensive, staff courteous and efficient and food excellent - just like the old days!"
• "Staff very friendly and efficient and couldn't have been more helpful."
• "Wonderful service from the moment we walked in the door!"
• "Staff were attentive and polite and service was quick."
• "Service was good too, very efficient. One irk was that the waitress did not show me the bill before I was presented with the card machine to pay."
• "The Service was top class and food to match."
• "Service is efficient and staff are well trained and polite."

Cons:

• "The handling is extremely bad, especially the girl with the dark hair and the arrogant look."
• "Our waiter was unfriendly."
• "The manager at the door (Joe) would be best suited with a non customer facing role."
• "Service started off well, but couldn't help us with complaints."
• "Unfortunately our server on the night wasn't the friendliest and if I'm honest found her to be borderline rude."
• "No drinks order taken, poor service."
• "Terrible service and quite possibly sat in the worst seat in the entire restaurant."

Decor and Ambience

Pros:

• "Decor of the restaurant is interesting, very clean."
• "The decor of the restaurant is great with a very pleasant ambience."
• "This is a beautiful restaurant, excellently laid out with stylish decor."
• "Lovely pub restaurant with amazing decor."
• "Unique restaurant with great interesting decor, I could still be there looking at the walls!"
• "Amazing restaurant with so much memorabilia inside."
• "The decor is gorgeous with talking points all around the room."

Cons:

• "The stuff on the wall's not the only thing old-fashioned about this place, the food's a throwback to the 1980's."
• "Girl with dark coloured hair was very rude slow to serve dropped things on table didn’t get drinks."
• "Nice exterior but inside was stepping into ww1."
• "Very dated restaurant."
• "We were seated at two separate tables with ‘COVID’ partition between the two... it was very much like ‘here’s your food and drink’ when are you leaving."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "The food was fantastic and as it was lunch time, very reasonably priced."
• "Very reasonably priced food and drink."
• "Food was good, great choice and priced as normal for this kind of establishment."
• "Good selection of meals at a reasonable price."
• "Lovely bottle of wine reasonably priced."
• "Priced fairly, would definitely visit again."
• "There is a great selection of food available and the lunchtime menu offers light bites at very reasonable prices."

Cons:

• "You get an after eight with your latte which is a nice touch but at £3.85 a cup we found that a bit expensive."
• "Its way over priced."
• "I felt the prices were a little high compared with other restaurants of a similar standard."
• "Not sure I would call it a family restaurant because most dishes were very expensive."
• "The prices for the quality of food is shocking, there's more flavour in my dogs dinner!"
• "At £3.85 a cup we found that a bit expensive."
• "Food was also quite expensive for what it was, nothing special, have had better food for cheaper elsewhere."