Harvester

I had a nice latte here with a friend, and while the building, staff and ambience are great, the latte was weak. Epic fail! Still, atmosphere counts.

I ate here yesterday with my sister in law before we went to the cinema over the road.
Inside the décor is really nice, it’s casual and spacious. We were shown to a table quickly by a friendly member of staff and the drinks order was taken straight away.
Good stuff over
We both ordered the BBQ chicken wrap, one portion of chips, onion rings and breaded mushrooms. 2 diet cokes which were refillable.
We helped ourselves to the salad, it was nicely presented but the pasta dishes were seriously overcooked to the extent pasta was soggy.
When we refilled the drinks all that came out of the machine was soda water.
The food arrived and the chicken wraps came with a steak knife? We found out that the wraps were so thick and stodgy that even the steak knife wouldn’t cut them. The chicken in the wraps was cold and only a few pieces per wrap.
The chips were covered in burnt black bits from the bottom of the fryer. Really not nice!
The onion rings were delicious!
We were left waiting ages to pay the bill, so much so I went to the bar to pay, another customer was already complaining about being given the wrong prices for the food. Staff didn’t handle the complaint well and behaved like a rabbit in the headlights. The nice guy who seated us took over and the other two staff quickly retreated.
In summary:
Nice friendly guy seated us.
Drinks were comparable to what you would get out of a tap in a public loo.
Food was cold, wrap could have been used in the construction industry
Would I return? Absolutely Not, even though it was very cheap.

Where to start… this was a fairly hilarious outing to fill our stomachs before going to the cinema for the lovely Orange Wednesday deal.
Didn’t have long or had that much of a hunger so opted for the Harvester. Menu is decent — plenty of variety and a ‘free’ salad bar with all main courses. I started with that and it was fresh and mostly nice. Go with what you think looks good and you’ll be happy too. Bread is stored in baskets on top of the salad bar (I couldn’t reach them, but wasn’t too hungry so no issue there: P)
The problems/​hilarity arose when my main arrived — I ordered pasta with four cheese sauce, spinach and leek. What came was not that. It has asparagus, green beans, broad beans and peas no sign of leek and a faint smidgen of spinach — maybe. Asked the waitress if I had the wrong dish and she checked the menu — confused by the description on the menu as this was always what came out, after offering plain tomato which is not appealing she went off for a lengthy chat with the chefs and came back to announce:
‘The box the pasta comes in describes it as leek and spinach so it must have some in it. The other stuff is extras.’ We can offer you a free dessert for the confusion.
Mmmmm that makes my wrong dish even more appetising, nom nom. Try to mop it up with a non garlicky bit of bread. Make it half way through and decide to leave the empty space for my free dessert.
But then… ordered profiteroles only to have the lovely waitress come back to say they don’t have any left. Guess it’s apple caramel tart which is WOW sweet with all the caramel.
Eeek not quite a smooth meal but hey ho these things happen. Boyfriend’s dinner was fine, good old scampi and chips. So I’m not saying don’t go I am saying be careful what you order cos it make come from a box. The strange thing is you can see the ‘Chefs’ at ‘work’ through a gap through to the kitchen so how they hide all the pre-​packaged stuff is quite a skill :)