greasy spoon not a restaurant (Wacky Warehouse)

Member Name: aliyah t

Product:	Wacky Warehouse
Date:	21/11/04 (1275 review reads)
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Advantages: cant think of any, oh, here's one... no, the 2 for 1 might appeal to some

Disadvantages: more like a large supermarket cafe in need of refurb, greasy, the customers

After my daughter said she had been to the Walnut Tree in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and reported back that it was nice, we thought we would give it a try one day, she is only 11 years old but seemed to know what's good. I didn't actually know it was a wacky warehouse until we had got there.
Firstly I could not believe how greasy the seats were, they had a thick black sheen over the worn out fabric, the restaurant reminded me of a cross between a caravan park clubhouse and a supermarket cafe and it was definately in need of a refurbishment. Even the menus were sticky and dirty.
The starters came 25 minutes after ordering them, which isn't too bad to say it was busy but the prawn cocktails had no lemon slices or even any butter for the bread, which were the ends of a loaf, not nice.
The main courses came and 2 seconds later a girl asked us if everything was alright, I hadn't had chance to find out but didn't really want to comment in any case. Basically the food looked as though it was all cooked seperately then reheated and put together, which provided very little taste in the dishes, I mean chicken cooked in onions and mushrooms with garlic would be tasty if it was all cooked together but they had definately put some deep fried mushrooms on top of a plain cooked chicken breast and then added some "hot dog" style onions on the top, even the baked potatoe was a soggy microwave reheat. Big yellow chips could be seen all around the restaurant. No black pepper on the table only white pepper all round, which is fine if you're having fried eggs.
I'm not a snob but looking around I felt like one, most of the customers looked like market shoppers, car booter's and likely regulars, the sort of people you would find in caravan park amusement arcades. Not that there's anything wrong with markets, car boot sales or caravan parks.
Non of us tried the wacky warehouse bit so we cant comment on that.
Needless to say we won't be going again.
You kind of get what you pay for and to me this is perfect for those meanies who dont like paying to eat out but dont mind if its not brilliant either. For children it's obviously fine as my daughter gave it the thumbs up, maybe she was high on coca cola at the time?

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