Peachy Keens

The food was alright, not particularly good but its a buffet and it was £8 (lunchtime). Can’t complain much for a buffet at that price tbh. For those who wants a cheap buffet and eat as much as you like after hitting the gym, this is a good spot. The waitresses were quick on clearing the plates whenever I am filling new plates.

Oh dear. I came here with a friend a few weeks ago. We were shown to a table with no instruction as to what we were supposed to do. Now we have been to buffet restaurants before but it is frustrating that they just assumed this. There was a number printed on a piece of card sellotaped to the table which looked grubby and not the most hygienic.
I quite liked the layout with the different types of cuisine separated. We decided to wait for a drink and were served by the grumpiest waitress I have ever experienced. Very little communication was had and when our drinks were slammed in front of us she actually rolled her eyes. I was quite shocked!
The food was ok. Some was actually quite good (the keralan fish curry) and some was really poor (the chicken and sweetcorn soup without a single kernel of sweetcorn to be seen).
Overall we were disappointed but mainly with the service, the food we weren’t expected to blow us away.

Saturday evening, around 5:30, we were wandering around trying to find a restaurant that we’d all like and ended up at Peachy keens. Not our first choice as Red Hot Buffet was full. We took the lift up and was first greeted by a wind tunnel, even though it was indoors!
Our friend asked how long as we could see there were quite a lot of people already, 15 minutes, so we waited. After about 25 minutes and more people later, the staff with the clip board came over and said to everyone that they could buy a drink at the bar, which obviously meant we would be waiting longer!
After another 10 minutes, he let 2 other groups who’d got in after us in first, so my mate went and asked about it. He made some excuse about us having 5 people! Then a couple of minutes later he called us and told us to follow one of the waitresses.
We sat down and she just walked off. No explanation, nothing! Luckily, one of the girls had been there before so we asked her if we went to the bar ourselves or did they come and take our orders.
After a few minutes another waitress came and ordered our drinks. We then went for our food.
There were 5 of us but only 4 drinks came! She just plonked the drinks down and walked off before we could ask her. Few minutes later another waitress asked us if we’d ordered tap water so we told her that we were still waiting for another drink. When she came back it wasn’t the drink my mate had ordered but she said that was all there was!!! No apologies!!!
Food was as expected from a buffet, ok.

I decided to come here before I let loose the staff for their Xmas do.
I thought it sounded like a condensed Red Hot Buffet, to which I thought the food quality would be even better, considering there would be less food stalls to monitor.
When we arrived this place was packed, which I took to be as a good sign. But the layout made me feel like it was some cafateria, I did not feel comfortable, and the waiiter seemed quite disgruntled. Choosing a glass of wine we set off to investigate the food counters… The chinese was the nearest one, and I always like to start off with a soup to whet my appetite.
This hot and sour soup was not bad, but it is difficult to get this wrong. While I was slurping on this there was a ”chef” on the meat section cooking steaks to order. See this should be an awesome idea. however…even if I ate meat I still would not have touched this…
He was quite a portly chap, and had the same energy as the dead cow on the grill. to which he kept aimlessly slapping with a spatuala… when it was black. he went over the guests and plonked it on their plate, which sounded like a tile falling off the roof.
Bravely after this performance I went to look at what else there was to eat. Here is when things get worse… I must have tried EVERYTHING from noodles, curries, rice, pizza… to be repulsed. Everything had been left cooking all day and our table soon filled up with full plates trying to find something in vain that was edible.
If I were the waiter I would have asked what the issue was, considering how many plates they were taking away… Eventually after trying everything available we admitted defeat and decided to ask for the bill. which came to £40…
I was not paying this, and decided to pay what would cover for the drinks and left.
To summerise do not come here, there are plenty of other places that are good for buffets such as TOPS and a few in China Town… I am glad this place is easy to miss in the Printworks…

dont remember to much about this place so couldnt have left a good impression.
inside was nicely laid out with various dishes from diffrent parts of the world.
its a self service buffet type resturant with food in big dishes and each one labeled
not being a red meat eater i took my pick of having slices of pizza then ii tried a english stew and various other foods none of it tasted authentic enough.
The good thing about this place is there are various cheifs who specialize in certain
dishes so you can have them make anything you want.
my friends had the cheif cook them a steak and were very happy with it so they order another one
desserts were not good and you got the smallest piece
of cake ever known to man!
dont think i will go back here again as there are much better places to try.
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