Chiquito Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is delicious here."
• "Great service and great food. something very different not available elsewhere."
• "Good food and nice cocktails, well priced, two cocktails and main course and dessert £30 each."
• "Food was great."
• "The fajitas they do where the filling comes out still sizzling on a hot plate are pretty tasty and look impressive."
• "Food spot on."
• "The food was freshly made and full of flavour."

Cons:

• "The fries are raw and like they have been laying in sunflower oil all day!"
• "The meat if you could call it that is embarrassment to the chain restaurants of Chiquitos to serve customers!"
• "All meals containing pulled pork were dry as the Sahara."
• "Burnt ribs, Very undercooked yuka chips, Chimichanga reheated in microwave (so not crispy)."
• "Food came out cold and raw."
• "Food wasn't bad, but it had almost no taste."
• "The worst meal I've had for a long time."

Service

Pros:

• "The wait staff were very welcoming and attentive."
• "Done a good job with Covid precautions. We had a table away from people and our waitress was lovely and attentive but not too much!"
• "Service was friendly and efficient on a relatively busy saturday."
• "Staff are lovely and very helpful."
• "Service was brilliant, they couldn't do enough for us."
• "absolutely wonderful service. the staff are attentive and fast."
• "The service was amazing and the staff, the food was also great well cooked tasty."

Cons:

• "Service a bit slow tonight."
• "Service is always really slow and vegan options are lacking."
• "Service is always slow, so there was no exception on this occasion."
• "We had to remind the team about our second drinks ordered, but it was eventually sorted."
• "After waiting for our mains for nearly 40 minutes... it seemed as though staff were more interested in having a conversation than serving customers."
• "Not good service at all! 3 people were servicing our table but still it was slow and incompetent."
• "Even though the restaurant was half empty, we were told there would be a 45 minute wait because of having not enough staff."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Enjoyable evening with good food and a good atmosphere."
• "Good atmosphere too."
• "Really enjoyable night out with friends, lively venue but not too noisy."
• "Atmosphere on a busy night is nice and not too loud."
• "Great place, great atmosphere and to top it off great food."
• "The atmosphere is busy and can get somewhat loud but I was there on a Friday night."
• "We find the atmosphere enjoyable with varied groups of diners."

Cons:

• "Also take a jumper, it's cold in there!"
• "It felt untidy and uncomfortable."
• "But the whole place seemed very dull. Decor and ambience were lacking."
• "After waiting for nearly an hour we were offered a table in a VERY cold section."
• "Restaurant was clean, music was too loud so we could have a decent conversation."
• "Will not be returning. Avoid!"
• "My only gripe would be the toilets which were not very clean, especially for that time of day."