Bluebird Restaurant

Must agree with Andy below, the two handsome gypsy boys playing such lovely guitar music were a great part of the ambience and flavour of this now very sad and deteriorating restaurant. The food has gone downhill too and as for the service, well the least said, etc! Won't come back until they pull their Bluebird socks up.
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Yummymummynumberone - View all reviews by this user
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Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Had a dinner here last week .. waited waited and waited ... the service is terrible. and when the food arrived it was awful dry and tasteless ... they sure know how to charge for it... the bill was wrong ,extra bottle of wine and a beer... staff couldent care less and that includes the manager .. wrote to the "Head Manager" who did not even acknowledge my letter or e mail and surprise surprise the e mail didnt work .. exactly the same as this so called restaurant .. I am flabbergasted to think that anyone who knows anything about food would go back to this dump.
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Alex
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Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I would often stop for breakfast on a Sunday morning with my family, but not anymore!

We were there on Bank Holiday Monday and first problem was the service. The staff were rude, disinterested and left us hanging around for an hour until, having asked 3 times, we had our order taken. From there things went from bad to worse; of the four meals that arrived, three of them were not what was ordered. When this was finally put right what we did eat was cold oily and in the case of the eggs Benedict, had a skin on them which would suggest that they had sat under the heat lamps for some time. We then had to wait a further hour before we managed to actually get our bill, paid and left.
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 0
Thursday, May 29, 2008

In addition to all the comments below I would like to add that the quality of ingredients are also poor - I checked with the waiter as to whether the eggs were free range and sadly they still use battery eggs.

Otherwise, the meal was pleasant enough but nothing special in my opinion.

I wouldn't waste my time going back again!
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Food 2 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 2
Saturday, May 24, 2008

Very disappointing. Oily veg and potatoes. Very tough steak and lamb even the medium rare was tough. I couldn't cut it even with a steak knife (which I had to ask for).

Shockingly limp celery and brown apple on the cheese board. Can't believe any decent chef would let a dish leave his kitchen with brown apple slices.

Slow and aloof service. Took 20 minutes to get a drink and it only arrived after we'd asked for it again. One of my friends was dismissed for asking where the toilets were, which were not up to the standard of the main restaurant.

Questionable presentation on the chocolate dessert, I won't go into what it looked like but you can get the idea!

The best part was the truffles that were supposed to come with the coffee but they were served after we'd finished our drinks and only because we asked where they were.

Will definitely not be returning and would not recommend this to anyone.
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Debbie
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Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Monday, May 19, 2008

Bluebird restaurant has been a favourite of mine for years, I completely disagree with most of the comments below, whom I am sure either have god complexes or are just plain old negative. If you want five star plus service I suggest you go to the ritz or the connaught and not try and get a cheapo deal (the feather steak is on the £18.50 so that says it all about review below).

As for the non english speaking waitresses please provide this website with a restaurant that has solely british staff?? Even the Claridges has international teams. So that part of the review is irrelevant. So perhaps you should indeed try pizza express? I mean you would obviously be more at home there.

On the whole Bluebird is a fantastic restaurant that I frequent twice or three times per week as I live locally. I think the atmosphere is good and buzzy as long as you go there in the right mindset, Negative thoughts bring negative experiences, see below!!

Foods great and service impeccable. disagree totally with all written here. Loyal Bluebird fan!
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Andrew Farqhuar
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Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 8
Saturday, May 17, 2008

can only sadly agree. Me and my wife used to go here a few years ago, and they had great staff, great food and really interestingly a spanish gypsy guitar duo who played 'old time' music. They really assisted the atmosphere and the charming waiters and staff all helped to.

Now its not really bad, just slightly sad.. bring back the music boys, the great staff and the old manager.
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andy hathaway
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Food 4 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Thursday, May 15, 2008

All change at Bluebird - for the worst! This has been a favourite of mine in the past - long Saturday and Sunday lunches with a good value menu and food always delicious. Have recently had a Saturday dinner and a mid week lunch and both so, so disappointing. Service great, bread great, wine great. Food dull and tough and tired. Sent the dinner main back it was so awful - lunch I survived but chewy 'feather steak' and pretty flavourless. Even the watercress was wilted and bearnaise arrived with a skin on! How sad. The Cafe downstairs looked buzzy still so will try that out before giving up completely. Very disapointed.
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Food 2 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 2
Thursday, May 15, 2008

My worst experience ever! Poor food, no service and orders taking by non-english speaking waitress. That's very professional! Next time we'll try pizza express. I do agree with the comment below, toilets are smelly and filthy. Can't recomend.
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j k
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Saturday, May 03, 2008

went to the bluebird tonight. WHAT A DISASTER .. Service was abominable . we waited 20 mins before we got to order in ..ignored by the waiters ..food bland ..chips £4.00 for a tiny portion... chicken dry .. burger burned and dry ... I waited so long with an empty wine glass that when I went to get myself a refill from our own bottle it was taken out of my hand and put back in the ice bucket by the waiter .. I ended up by just getting it myself and ignoring his angry stare... Toilets very dirty.. no toilet paper..we complained to the manager who really didn't care we paid 210 but took off the service charge as there was none ...waited 20 mins on a glass of lemonade ..Why idiots go back there is a total mystery..do not go here if you like good food and good value what a waste of £200, give me the Greedy Budda any day less silicone and chavvy blonds with tatoos.
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marie farrelly
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Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Saturday, April 26, 2008