Chef and Brewer Reviews

I called in at The Didsbury for a quick drink with my daughter & ended up staying for food sat by the fire
What an amazing time we had
The team & the building is 5*
I highly recommend it to all my family & friends

Had a great sunday lunch at the Didsbury on fathers day yesterday. Excellent service received from Sofia, also very good value for money.

This review is for The Griffin Widnes
We arrived at 7.30 pm and we’re seated immediately. Good start and the ambiance of the restaurant was pleasing and the waitress pleasant and attentive. Chose our starters but our main choice (fillet steak) was disappointingly not available so we chose a second dish and dessert but the waitress then returned to the table to tell us that our second choice of main (lamb) was also unavailable. Even though there wasn’t really any other main on the menu that we wanted we compromised and made a third choice . The starter came which we both enjoyed but the main course of pie triple cooked chips and seasonal veg was awful, the pastry was so hard we could only scoop out the middle and the so call triple cooked chips were infact insipid frozen chips which weren’t even cooked properly, the presentation of the dish was very poor the vegetables just being piled over the chips, not in the least appealing. My wife’s plate when taken away was almost as full as it was when served and the waitress did comment and apologised profusely. Dessert was also a disaster three scoops of ice cream which came in a sundae glass completely melted and resembled cream.
As if all that wasn’t enough when we asked for and received the bill we had been over charged and it took over 20 minutes for this to be resolved
Needless to say we will never frequent the Griffin in Bold ever again we are not ones to make a fuss and cause embarrassment at a venue but we thought you ought to know.
What astounds us more than anything else is the fact that we regularly call at the Bottle and Glass in Rainford and the standard of the food there is always excellent and consistent as is the presentation something going wrong at The Griffin we just wasted our money.

My Wife and I drove from Bristol to go to this pub, (The Air Balloon In/near Birdlip )as I had seen it in passing in Birdlip many times , on entering the pub it really looked promising and the staff were friendly and accommodating, we ordered Starters, Prawn cocktail I had and I must say I would not miss having it again, my wife’s starter was acceptable, Main coarse was Lamb and Sea Bass with Veg Rice, I’m surprised the Chef would send out food in that condition. It’s a Real pity as the pub seemed very busy and definitely has potential, but we will not return there , we left a Tip as the waitresses were not at fault .