Cooking by the Teletubbies (Frankie & Benny's)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Frankie & Benny's
Date:	11/08/08 (158 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Cold food that would bounce

I have been to my local Frankie and Bennys twice now and both times my main course has ended up going back, the only reason I found myself in there a second time was that a fried had booked a table for their birthday there so it was not my choice and both times the food was hardly warm and not tasty at all.

Frankie and Bennys look to combine Italian and American cuisine and they are part of a chain. Similar in a way to TGI Fridays style restaurants but without quite as much tacky rubbish on the walls. The food is fairly basic, a range of pasta and pizza dishes and then some meat and fish dishes from the grill, most of which seems to come with chips.

On both visits I have felt that the service is a little slow, the first time I ordered a chicken dish and it was like rubber, really over cooked and yet it was not very warm and the fries were cold as well and the only other thing on my plate was a poor excuse for a salad. This time round I opted for pasta and that was nearly cold as well. On both occasions they were full of apologies but by the time a replacement meal would have arrived everyone else would have finished so I went without however they did spring for a free dessert and a free round of drinks for the table but it sill put a dampner on the night.

Not somewhere I would recommend as the meals are very pricey for what you get and the quality is poor.

Summary: Very poor restaurant