Reviews in Liverpool City Centre

Retro decor, melt in your mouth salmon and mouth watering lamb. Service spot on, and departed with regret - cant wait to go back.

We went there a few weeks ago for lunch and I was really impressed. Love Asian food and was best I have had in ages. The vietnamese coffee was to die for and even had a dessert which i never do in Asian restaurants. Highly recommended and we are booked back in for dinner next week!

On Saturday 23rd July me and 10 of my girlfriends enjoyed a really fabulous day in Bistro Franc, the food was marvellous and the service was exceptional, we all commented on the great atmosphere, which is probably why we stayed so long... we were in the restaurant for most of the afternoon and everyone had a really special time, we can't wait to go back!

Time before last, my visit was disappointing, but last weekend had one of the most enjoyable meals ever in Liverpool. Menu had changed quite a lot. It was absolutely delicious with the most delicate of flavours and cooked to perfection!

My family have been visiting the Casa Italia for 30 years. Starting off by my Mum taking my daughter, and now her children are regulars there. We have had many of our landmark occasions there and have never been disappointed by the food or the fantastic service. Yesterday myself and 13 of my cousins had a bit of a reunion there and all on short notice. Many thanks to the staff, your always fantastico!!!

This place has some very interesting menu choices. It just really trendy and laid back without being overstated

Dropped into Dr Duncans with some old rugby-playing friends of 40+ years who meet weekly to enjoy real ale in various different Liverpool pubs. 2nd round was 7 pints of Cains FA - definitely "0ff" - tasted and smelt of vinegar, so they were taken back to the bar with a polite request for an alternative beer. Bar staff not interested. Manager announced there was nothing wrong with the beer. Total lack of interest of the fact that 7 guys who had been drinking beer for over 40+ years were concerned about the beer's quality. It wasn't as if we were after a a free pint - all 7 of the returned glasses of "FA were full, less a sip! The way our request was dealt with was very poor. It was a "take it or leave it" approach. Needless to say, we all left for the nearby Crown & Mitre which is a GENUINE Real Ale Pub. Dr Duncan's is Cains' Flagship pub but the staff running it did not demonstrate much interest in customer satisfaction or competence in keeping a good beer cellar. Sorry Cain's. Your beer is great but your "front of house" pub is not doing you any favours!

we had lunch on Sunday 5 adults 4 children i had the chicken in red wine sauce which i sent back it was a chicken thigh and a tiny drumstick this part of the chicken is all bone and the cheapest part of the chicken.i have been to your restaurant a few times,and the food has been good,our bill was a £115 any good restaurant would not have charged me for my meal,mrs gilling

i think jumbo city is the best Chinese in Liverpool the staff are amazing i always take my 2 children which could be a bit stressful but the staff are really good with them the food is always fresh and cooked to perfection i would recommend people visit jumbo city you wont be disappointed

I recommend San Carlo if you want to (re)discover true Italian food in a nice atmosphere. We had a familiar lunch on Sunday in San Carlo and it was perfect. Italian of origin, my family likes true Italian flavours so we ordered pasta, wine and desserts. It was not extravagant, it was just what we like: authentic Italian food and quality of ingredients. The staff are very warm and most of them speak Italian which has been much appreciated by my parents, always happy to discuss things in their mother tongue.

Went for a meal here tonight with 5 friends. Have to say it was the best meal I have had in a long time (and I eat out A LOT!). We all chose different things to try, I had the peppered seared beef to start = amazing (and a large portion too)/ I then had linguine with king prawns, chilli and garlic with olive oil which was also equally amazing. Each one of us were surprised at the size of the meals and how gorgeous they were. HIGHLY recommend here. Many thanks to the chef - you are fab. Will be back soon,

spent afternoon there in feb great place and company,

look, I know a thing or two about curries,after all I originated from Bradford, We called at Maharaja on 28/06/11. ordered a sheek kabab for myself, we actually shared it.by heck it was rather nice.infact it was succulent and wonderful.not deep fried as some restaurant do.the curries,a beef and chicken, well, hefty portions for a start. tasted delightful,meat well cooked and fell apart in your mouth,nans all fresh.must try the chili nan..its good..now the hygiene, excellent..,everything and everywhere especially clean and tidy, staff could not do enough to make the dinning experience a welcoming change,well worth what we paid for the meal.the beer was good as well. .enjoy..we will visit it again the next time were in L/Pool.(living in Harrogate now)

Visited on it's opening week when we would accept teething problems but we were pleasantly surprised by the standard of the food and service and furthermore the price. We would highly recommend it to anyone!

Absolutely awful. So disappointed. I took my boyfriend here for a birthday celebration, I was told when I booked it was a meal and entertainment in a cosy relaxed environment. I was disgusted with the place. Masking tape all over the place covered holes in the floor, tacky, cold unwelcoming decor. Wobbly tables, unfriendly staff. And it gets worse...... We arrived and we're greeted by staff who were too busy (or just couldnt be bothered) to make any conversation, we were ushered to the bar and told to order a drink and wait to be seated. We were then taken to our (old, wobbly) table 2 mins later which was behind a large bright red painted pillar blocking our view of the so-called 'stage'. A few mins later a waitress dumped a menu on our table and rather carlessly told us the soup was tomato. Another waitress then took our order. The starter came no more than 3 mins later (so was obviously not freshly prepared) My partner had the soup which he described as 'watered down heinz'. It was a pitiful amount too. As we were eating the staff we're standing aroung giggling and texting, making for a very unpleasant atmosphere. During this time the bar was gradually filling up with streams of women dressed in tutu's, devils horns, cowboy outfits.....obviously the tackiness of the venue draws plenty of hen nights. We were starting to understand why we had been rushed through - it was clearly going to be a busy night for hens. No more than 5 mins after our starter was whipped away our meals turned up. This was where it took a serious downturn. Very undercooked veg, cold plates, poor presentation, awful food. My partner had 'cajun chicken' which was basically poached chicken swimming in a watery tomato sauce. There was nothing 'cajun' about it, and was very dry and tasteless. His meal was accompanied by 'roast potatoes' - one potato, cut in half and by the look of it's wrinkly appearance had been roasted the day before and hastily reheated. My lamb was ok, but as a amateur cook at home I genuinely could have cooked a better meal myself. And I'm no Nigella. We were then asked if we wanted more drinks, as I was deliberating on what to have the waitress interruped and abruptly said 'same again?' This seemed like more of an instruction than a question as before I could look at my partner to see if he was happy with this she had left! My glass of wine then arrived......in a half pint tumbler. Yes. I know. I couldn't believe it either. It just seemed that it couldnt get any worse. But then my partner went to the toilet. You don't expect to find urine and wet paper towels all over the floor in a restaurant, especially when you are one of the very few males in the building, it should have been gleaming. It was disgusting. Expected perhaps at 3am in a nightclub, but in a restaurant? He then popped outside for a quick smoke only to find a member of staff pulling up with a carload full of 'Bargain Booze' carrier bags! And to think we were being charged £3.30 for a pint of lager and £4.70 for a glass of wine served in a tumbler!!!!! Wishing I had kept my original booking in Puschka on Rodney Street, we then ordered 2 banoffi pies from a 'desert' menu! Just another sign of the management failures. (We were tempted to ask them to go easy on the sand.) By the end of this we still hadn't seen/heard any entertainment and the paprty poppers, screeching women and flying balloons were beginning to irritate. I do feel that when I booked our table the week before asking for a table for 2 the woman I spoke to should have had the decency to let us know we would be sat in the middle of what turned out to be 4 separate hen partys. But then I guess the £35 a head was just too tempting for them, I can only imagine that they don't get many repeat customers and probably need every customer they can rip off to keep them going. £87 for the sub standard food and 2 drinks each was just ludicrous. The only conclusion I can draw from them still being open is that the majority of their customers being on some sort of binge drinking celebration helps them diguise the fact the food is terrible, the venue is old, tacky and run down and the staff just don't care. As for the entertainment, well, I can't comment as we didn't stay long enough to find out. We just wanted out as soon as possible. So I politely explained our disappointment to the manager who instantly refused to do anything for us, as apparently we knew what we were getting into when we booked! Yes, this is what she told me! So it was MY fault I hadn't booked a decent restaurant! Not a mistake I will make again. And I will be making sure friends, family, acquaintances, work collegues and possibly strangers I pass in the street all know to steer well clear of this place.

I'm sorry this is a customer who had a duck dish but ended up with food poisoning and have been of work since last Friday after having my meal on Thursday night but now getting advice from the Environment Department.

Cannot recommend despite using Ego for 2 years, last night got small chicken leg in place of chicken supreme and paid £11.45 for it,asked for Moroccan Fish stew and got some mussels and chickpeas, tasteless £12.95 asked for manager no go complained to staff, waste of time.Will not be back, or my friends either.

Takeaway - Cooking oil that the pops were fried in needed changing. Onion bhaji and seekh kebab undercooked and too spicy. There was a hair in the raita. Currys very bland and absolutely swimming in oil. Pilau rice grey and tasteless. Naan straight out of the packet. Disgusting - never again.