Woodins Shades, Liverpool Street

I met a mate for lunch there yesterday and the service and attitude of the bar man was so appalling; this has prompted me to make my first complaint on this site.
Arrived and friend kindly offered to pay, he ordered and offered his card. The Bar man (Italian or French and in his late 50�s) said, ��card machine out of order�� and went on to serve someone else.
I then said; ��excuse me, I have cash��
Wait your turn was his response� Finally ordered and paid, realised I had the odd change to make up the �16.50 it came to and he simply said; �too late� and handed me a fistful of change.
Half an hour passed with no food or explanation. Being pressed for time on a lunch hour, I went to enquire where our food was.
��This is not McDonalds�� came the friendly reply.
I was spitting feathers at this stage but kept my cool as a) I was famished and b) I was now attracting the attention of his apparent lunch time regulars.

Our food finally arrived 5 minutes apart. My friends All day breakfast was by all accounts fine but my breaded chicken with lemon mayo and spinach in a ciabatta was nothing of the sort and I would have been far better off going to the golden arches.

0/10

30 Jul 2010 11:08