Macy’s Café

A small café that I’d wanted to try for a while as it hadn’t been open that long. By the specials’ board outside it looked like a good place for lunch — cheap and cheerful, with meals coming in at just under a fiver.
I tried it out one day, and the lasagne and chips was coming in at under a fiver. Optimistically, I went in and took a seat at the window to watch the traffic float by on the bustling Falls Road. I ordered my meal and wasn’t waiting long as there were only two other people in the place, which I thought was strange given that it was lunchtime and there’s a never-​ending throng of people and traffic around that area, some of them workers from the nearby local businesses.
Anyway, I was glad of the peace and quiet in the near-​vacant café. However, it soon became apparent to me why the café was so lacking in customers. The food came out and, as I looked at it, I became as deflated as the lasagne. Strangely, as the meal was set in front of me, the employee asked me if I’d like coleslaw. I declined, as I thought it was strange that I wasn’t offered this when I ordered, making me wonder if this was a ploy to eke some more money out of me. I still wondered if the lasagne might be tasty, as I have had some less than attractive looking meals that have ended up being really tasty, but this wasn’t. The pasta in the lasagna had the constitution of overcooked super-​noodles, the only real difference being that super-​noodles are tastier (and that’s saying something). I don’t know what could possibly have been done to it in the cooking process to make it like that, but it was abysmal — I actually felt sorry for it. The chips were OK, which was no consolation.
Having reasoned that there was little point in complaining (it wasn’t like I would’ve eaten anything else, and the chips were all gone), I paid and left.
Staff seemed pleasant, place was clean, lasagne was awful. Have not returned.