silver darling, aberdeen review

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Average Ratings
Quality of service3.8/10
Quality of food5.3/10
Value for Money3.3/10
Overall rating3.8/10
25% Recommended1 out of 4 Reviews

Review of Silver Darling, Aberdeen

By jimmy dal Rank: Lance Corporal on 24th Sep 2006

jimmy dal's Ratings
Food TypeFrench
Average cost per headOver £40
How often do you eat here?First time
AtmosphereQuiet/Refined
Quality of service1/10
Quality of food6/10
Value for money3/10
Overall value3/10
no jimmy dal's recommendation

Good Points

Good location

Bad Points

Service and attitude terrible

General Comments

Three week ago I took my wife for a nice romantic meal, at the weekend, to The Silver Darling. The table was booked for 7.30 and we arrived at 6.45. We never got the table we asked for and they were quite dismissive about the whole affair, and that was just the start. We ordered two starters and a fish main course and we got a complementary prestarter. By 7.15 we had been served the starters and I then asked the waiter to hold the main courses who then told me that they were already up and under the lights. We asked for our check and we went home, thanks. Not even a sign of an a apology!

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1 Comment on Review by jimmy dal for Silver Darling, Aberdeen

  1. u02tpb2 on 28th Nov 2006

    re Jimmy Dal..........

    a few blindingly obvious points you fail to consider!!
    1) If you book a table for 7.30 then turn up 45 minutes early when the restaurant is empty then your food is going to arrive faster than if the restaurant is full. Staff at restaurants ask for booking times for a reason - if you could turn up as and when you pleased then they wouldn't ask for a time!! Do you go to the hairdresser's 45 minutes before a booking? Or the Doctor's?

    2) If you want your food to come at a pace specified by yourself - in this instance leisurely - then you need to say this when you order - not as the chef is putting your main course order out!!

    Hmmm, a theme develops.

    3) The Silver Darling has a limited number of window seats, as you obviously found out. These seats are, not unreasonably, allocated as and when the bookings are taken and as requested. Why should you be allowed to supercede someone who booked and asked for a window table weeks, if not months, before you did?! If being politely told the situation vis-a-vis seating is interpreted by you as being dismissive then the problem is yours I'm afraid.



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