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    Hot Rod Diner

    4.5 (2 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Byron - Summer special.

    Byron

    3.7(7 reviews)
    2.5 mi
    ££

    Great burgers, amazing craft beer selections. Easy peasy!…read more Byron is expanding and it's a good thing! I've been to a couple of their branches and this new one in Bluewater shopping centre. The staff is really friendly (even have fake-tattoos) and the service is really impressive. Makes coming here an easy choice, especially if you need some fuel before or after shopping, this is the place!

    Tried this place for the first time today and was really hopeful with the promise of a 'proper'…read moreburger. If you judge a burger joint on everything but the burgers, this would get 5 stars. Great interior, super friendly and brilliant service from waitress, comfy seats, lovely chips with skin on and every condiment that you need for a burger. However.... the burgers are such an integral part of the experience (well duh!) that it only gets two stars in my eyes. The chef just doesn't know how to cook them. They recommend medium. I asked for mine to be medium - it came out medium. So far, so good. (It was a bit gristly, and not the best meat, but I ate it, so how bad could it be?) However, my sister asked for hers to be medium-rare, just a little pinker than medium. When it arrived, it was raw with the edges kissed by the grill, so it was also cold in the middle, and bacteria-friendly warm towards the edge, so completely inedible and possibly dangerous. Fine, we thought - we'll just get another one, and the waitress was fantastic - really sympathetic and apologetic. We were happy, it happens... but 30 minutes later, a very well done, dried out burger was brought back after the chef had quite publicly disputed the sending back of the first one and made some joke at our expense. We gave up, they very kindly took both burgers off the bill (I was prepared to pay for mine, as I had eaten it) and we left. And I'm sorry to say that despite the loveliest waitress in the world doing her absolute best with a terrible chef, we won't be going back. :-(

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    Byron - Great selection of craft beers.

    Great selection of craft beers.

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    Cheese burger with bacon.

    Frankie & Benny's UK

    Frankie & Benny's UK

    3.5(11 reviews)
    3.4 mi
    ££

    It's never a good sign when you see a restaurant squeezing tables in to every corner and fire exit…read more Something screams 'desperation' much like the helpless cries of the staff. We booked ahead for this place, as it was a Saturday. But we were still made to wait at the back of a long queue, behind everyone who had walked in. After half an hour, we finally got seated upon a rather dirty makeshift table, which partially blocked the exit. It wouldn't have bothered me so much if our server hadn't run into our extended table every time he passed. Our server also had no idea about the things what we were ordering, and had to keep reading the menu - that's fine, he could be new. But then we come to the food. Firstly, the waiting time was catastrophic. If you can't cope with so many people, stop seating them in the aisle! The food itself was largely inconsistent. We received one cold starter, then five minutes later a hot one. And out of five of us, only one enjoyed their main. The rest of us found it either burned, cold, or completely the wrong order. The one thing I will say is that it is good for families, and parties, but for what you will pay per head, you can find much better quality in the area. For everyone else, bare in mind you will have to listen to the brain-numbing happy birthday song every ten minutes.

    The first time I went to this restaurant was in 2008 and since then I've been many times and never…read morehave I been disappointed. The service has always been good. You're usually seated straight away, the staff are friendly and polite and check in on you from time to time. The food is brilliant. It's well cooked and you certainly get what you pay for. It can get really busy at times (on the evening and at weekends for example) so the wait can be rather annoying.

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    Frankie & Benny's UK - Really dirty place overall

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    Really dirty place overall

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