Reviews in Manchester

I visited the fat pig on Friday 8th April (1st weekend after opening). I was following on Facebook and was excited after viewing the lovely menu. On arrival we joined the queue to be seated. The restaurant is lovely and the atmosphere was busy but buzzing and friendly. When we where seated at our table in the back room next to the serving hatch (I didn't mind this) we weren't asked if we would like drinks or given menus. We waited for half an hour (no one apart from busy waiting on staff collecting from the hatch even came into the room) after which time I decided to collar one of the waiters while he was retrieving from the hatch. The young lad was polite and helpful, took a drinks order and said he would get us some menus. Finally we were brought menus with a vague apology but no drinks arrived for another 20 mins (not a good start). We browsed the menu, made our choices and sipped our cocktails; which btw where lovely, but after another half an hour our order had not been taken. Again I collared another unsuspecting waiter who again was very helpful and polite and took another drinks order. Eventually somebody did come to take our order and our wait for starters was reasonable, however another 20 mins wait for our drinks meant I was pretty annoyed. I ordered the cheese fondue starter and my other half ordered the pigs cheek and black pudding balls. Both were tasty but very sparse for the price in my opinion. The cheese fondue is basically a baked miniature Camembert with wafer thin sliced bread (not enough) and side salad. For £7 I just expected more. My partners was lovely and tasty but again four small balls for £6 odd is a bit overpriced. At this point I was thinking "ok they are really busy and maybe we just chose the wrong starters" I was willing to forgive despite the unacceptable start. We both ordered the artisan pizzas. Mine was the lamb kebab style pizza and my partners the pulled pork. My pizza was very spicy (too much chilli oil imho), the lamb was very scarce, a bit dry and I could not really taste coriander or identify it in the pile of salad on top of the pizza (no doubt to hide the scarecity of lamb). My partner was more impressed but also felt the pizza was sparse. The wine (Australian Chardonnay) was lovely and helped me to get over the annoyances but when we waited another half an hour or maybe more for the bill after asking for it we gave up and went through to the bar and payed it there. Overall I do think we made some bad choices and maybe it's personal choice but I would suggest that the food is a little too pretentious to fulfill. The main thing was that the service we received was terrible. I felt we were shoved in a back room and ignored and I won't be returning... for a while anyway (hopefully my feedback may help them recognise where they are failing).

One of the best Indian restaurants in greater Manchester. Very clean. Attentive staff. Great food. Highly recommended

Awful night out Table not ready on time Wine served in a warm glassMail course incorrect due to staff errorStaff tried to keep the change from the bill as a tip with being offered it If you want a nice evening don't eat here

Amazing food and amazing service!!!!! Best place to eat at the/Trafford centre

Very very tasty food,great service.well worth a visit

Love the concept of this place. The menu is designed around sharing which is great because we couldn't decide so ordered loads! Really great vibe. Great addition to the NQ.

Such a great venue for food or a night out. The music keeps you going until the early hours

I came in last night for the football and the atmosphere was amazing. The staff were really attentive and the food was really nice. I would definitely recommend the Pulled beef Nachos. I will definitely be back soon !

Best place in Manchester to go watch football, it's really good that you can watch different matches at once. The big screen room was crazy when England beat Germany!!!

A real great place to go with friends for sharing food and a real party late night. Love it!

A great little hidden gem in the Northern Quarter. Amazing American sharing food. A very quirky cocktail list & open till 5am at weekends!! Definitely worth a visit.

Very poor service over the phone. unfriendly tone, i called on Friday afternoon to reserve a table she said they fully booked, however we walked past at 7ish it was more or less empty so we walked in and got a table when we asked the waiter who took our drink order why couldn't they reserve a table earlier he were more confused then we were! We've a lady's night out ones a week or fortnight, this place has been our new spot since its open. We realise they've new staff and the two younger waiter has left, the atmosphere isn't the same and just didn't feel welcomed from the moment we walked in specially after the phone call. its a shame what has happen to this place, we've been very supportive and told alot of our friends and family but as we made it clear and told the waitress we wont be back because we had bad experience she didn't look like she care, bad attitude very disappointing.

It has been tempting and we wanted to go borrello and try it out, specially after we found out its the same chef who used to work at linguine, so we pay them a visit last week, the place is nicely decorated and good set up. Ordered drink good choice and priced reasonably, followed by starter we had ribs and garlic bread special, we end up having the garlic bread as the ribs was to hard to chew, we didn't make a fuss at the time, we asked for main course i had fillet steak (blue) AS ALWAYS and my partner asked for salted-crust sea bass but strangely end up with sea bass grill. Firstly my steak was more like well done and the fish was left with bones. then i ask the waiter who couldn't speak english at all, he went and this rude waitress come to our table with no manner and when i did inform her with my steak is over cooked she said this is what you order and thats what you get!! We couldn't wait to get out that place they couldn't even get one thing right we asked for the bill we paid and left immediately. Then only when we went to linguine this week and told them how bad things were there at the new place then we been told its nothing to do with linguine and the chef been sacked! Well no wonder!!

We visited here again on Saturday night after returning from our holiday and been there few time with friends and family since it's open and it has been our favourite new Italian restaurant. But Unfortunately its not the same, staff on front desk were not particularly warming, then she gave us a table by the rest room we asked if we could've different table she replied with unpleasant way they fully booked, when sadly the restaurant was half empty on Saturday night! we were quite shocked by the sudden changes this restaurant used be full and couldn't get a table easily On Friday or Saturday night unless you book weeks before. It used to be one of the best in Manchester, they'd best quality food friendly staff who deliver best service from walk-in to walk-out and best atmosphere through the night. Then we ordered drinks was served by an older waiter who we know from before he wasn't quite happy with things over all himself or looked under pressure but looked like he was just doing his job, then we ordered starter it was good as usual, but we'd to wait 40minute for main course and when it arrived on our table it was so cold it never felt liked freshly cooked, however we made a complain then they took the food to warm up, it took another 15minute!!the service was awful the food made it worse!! The whole event was nightmare, I'm afraid we won't be back anytime soon and will spread the most regrettable night around to friends and family. I hope a quick fix up over all best of luck.

We chose Fazenda after a movie. Excellent food in classy surroundings. Could hardly move after.

Fantastic night Great food and very friendly helpful staff Can recomend the beef tarte but to be fair everything our party had was good, i did have to taste it all starters and main courses If you are ever in Sale you need to go here

A really beautiful place. Friendly staff great food and great service am here every Friday night when am in Manchester

Went for our daughters 40th ,had a brilliant night ,lovely meal ,and lots of fun.