Old School Restaurant Reviews Summary

Reservation

Pros:

• "Reservation is almost mandatory because during high season they are always fully booked."
• "Booking strongly advised but we arrived 6.15pm without booking, although it was busier the previous evening."
• "Tables are well spaced out, reservations are recommended."
• "If you can get a table, get yourself inside."
• "Be sure to make a reservation in advance!"
• "I highly recommend booking a table because I don't think we would have had a table if we didn't book."
• "Very busy restaurant (you need to book in advance)."

Cons:

• "The girls taking reservations are not qualified enough to fill in the relevant fields in the restaurant's 'high-end' reservation system and a group of 4 suddenly find themselves without the table."
• "The reason I’m giving a two star review is because the front of house was very cold and had no time for us when we didn’t have a booking."
• "We showed up last minute on a Wednesday night and couldn't get a table as the place was fully booked."
• "To start with they had no record of our booking which was repeatedly blamed on us for apparently not confirming our booking which we in fact had done."

Service

Pros:

• "The waitress sang happy birthday to me when handing us our desserts."
• "A very special mention to Cath too, the most efficient friendliest professional waitress I have ever come across."
• "Very friendly and competent staff serving wonderful local seafood with delicious little twists."
• "Staff were efficient and friendly."
• "We received a warm welcome from the staff who were busy with a restaurant that was obviously fully booked; a good sign."
• "Pleasant, attentive service."
• "Service was friendly and attentive."

Cons:

• "Service was incredibly slow, there was well over half an hour between finishing the starter of a lone scallop with fennel until we were served our main dish of lamb and vegetables in a vague broth."
• "Service was slow ☹"
• "Although our waiter was very nice to us, we thought there's much room for improvement in pretty much everything."
• "I asked the waitress in plain English whether they can recommend anything in particular from the menu. I asked this three times, but she didn't understand and she called her colleague."
• "On the service side, it was really really slow and did I mention that the old lady at the counter taking orders,was extremely rude."
• "Service a little chaotic with dishes going to wrong tables."
• "45 minutes passed without even the drinks."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Salmon was so tender and delicious. The sauce was a great pairing to the mild fish."
• "The smoked salmon in the seafood box was super fresh!"
• "Brilliant lamb shank that melted off the bone with fluffy mash. World's best sticky Toffee pudding."
• "The food arrived quickly and was clearly fresh."
• "Their fish in chips are amazing as well as the sticky toffee pudding."
• "Food was excellent with generous portions."
• "The seafood and shellfish were amazing: really good cooked and very tasty."

Cons:

• "Kids both ordered pizza, took one bite and despite never agreeing on anything else this whole holiday both suggested that something wasn't right with it."
• "The soups were mediocre, the fish and chips were outright disappointing."
• "The seafood main was great, although the langoustine was a bit small."
• "The one thing we didn’t enjoy much was the haggis appetizer - it tasted more like canned haggis, and the mashed potatoes tasted boxed."
• "The fish and chips I chose were supposed to be beer battered with home made chips and tate sauce hmm, not a hint of beer batter and the chips were chippy chips, the tate sauce was mayonnaise."
• "The haggis was very very greasy so didn’t enjoy it much."
• "Nothing beats a nice whiskey with an ok meal only to have your wife get food poisoning from the seafood."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The location is made with lots of love to details."
• "Service is warm and decor cozy."
• "Surrounding very cosy."
• "The decor of the space was beautiful."
• "A very cool building, great relaxing ambiance."
• "Dine in rustic elegance with Scottish folk music playing in the background."
• "It was a formal setting, lights dimmed, soft music playing in the background."

Cons:

• "We were seated by an open door so a huge draft whisked by us."
• "Firstly the whole place was freezing cold so my wife and I had to put our coats back on to eat."
• "Restaurant was uncomfortably cold. Starters were ok but small portions."
• "While we were waiting we couldn't help but notice that the table we were sitting at needed a spacer under the bottom right leg."

Value

Pros:

• "The price was reasonable and the toilets were clean."
• "The price was very reasonable for the quality and quantity of food."
• "Delicious food and excellently priced."
• "Great value for money for quality ingredients."
• "Very good price for the excellent quality of food."
• "The price was fair for the quality of food."
• "And the bill? Well, including 2 large wines and a large bottle of beer....under £80."

Cons:

• "The food quality here gets 10/10 HOWEVER the value is maybe 3/10."
• "My pal said lovely seafood platter but expensive."
• "Quite expensive but I can't knock the food."
• "£9.5 for a gin and tonic is also robbery."
• "It was unusual that we were charged £11 for the exact same round? When we quizzed about this we were told the brewery had told them to charge more for the beer."
• "Overpriced. The restaurant has big ideas that the staff cannot sustain."
• "Too little food for the price £6.5 for a few vegetables and also £6.5 for a basic sandwich."