Whilst visiting family we thought we'd try out this Fuzion restaurant as we are big Thai cooking fans. YoYo is relatively new to the area having only a few years standing and occupies a huge building on Rosse Street.
The atmosphere was rather odd, which can only be descibed as a jazzed up version of Weatherspoons. There's a large bar, with a cafe style area infront and then two tiers of restaurant seating, which overlook the rest. As it's name suggests, it is all three combined, which in my opinion may have worked if it was a burger and fries joint, but for a Thai eatery of this price tag it was a let down. There's also nothing authentic about the decor that could possibly be associated with Fuzion. The modern loft style with high beams was just that, lofty and we were chilly throughout the meal. The worst part had to be the music though, very dated dance/pop and far too loud for an eating area.
After wading our way through a too large menu I began with a starter of Thai fishcakes, which was delicious, yet very small. For my main I chose the Thai Green Chicken Curry, which was shockingly £8.95 without rice, which was an extra £2.20. This may not seem hugely expensive, but for such a simple dish and considering the overall feel of this place I would consider it over priced. The curry was a let down too, far too spicy for a delicate Thai dish and the abundance of red chilli over powered all other flavours. We all felt that the mains were grossly over priced for a place of this calibre, for example one of our part y had the Surf and Turf (steak with prawns), which was mediocre ,yet priced at £17.95. The food and the decor seems to be suffereing an identity crisis and there is nothing about Yo Yo's that fuzes; a cafe-bar-restaurant, serving Chinese-Thai- Japanese... perhaps they're just trying to get all areas covered for maximum profits.
One of the worst aspects was overhearing a particular staff member shouting at our waitress telling her how useless she was. This was extremely unpleasant and surprising as the only enjoyable aspect of our visit to YoYo was the staff who are polite and engaging. After enquiring we later found out that the man was the boss.
My Dad left with a hole in his pocket the size of a H-bomb and it's needless to say that we wont ever be returning. read more