Terrible & Expensive food, Dont bother to go!!

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Guest's review of Simply Blues, Leigh-on-Sea

“Terrible and Expensive food, Dont bother to go!!”

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written by on 28/10/2011

Someone recomended Simply Blues to me. They said if you liked meat and BBQ ribs this was the place to go. Whenever I drive past in the evening after work there always seemed to be plenty of people hanging around outside smoking, so I thought i'd give it a try. My 14 year old likes her ribs, so I booked a table early one Sunday evening. Once inside the restaurant I felt that the place looked tierd and dated, it did give me a hint of what was to come...I should have left then!
The staff were very friendly, and fairly attentive, but we were the only ones there. My husband and I ordered the potato skins for starters, my daughter had the nachos. The presentation was very poor and lacked any creativity, infact my first thought was it looks like they've gone to Iceland next door bought a ready meal and a packet of crisps, and thrown them together on a plate! Starving we knocked back the first course. I was hoping the best was yet to come!
I ordered the half ribs and half chicken with curly fries. I did quite enjoy the ribs, you didnt have to eat them with your fingers, and they were quite meaty, the chicken was ok but it could have been a bigger portion, the curly fries again looked as if they were from Iceland and I didn't eat them. My husband had the fillet steak with a jacket potato,and a salad on the side. I think this was the cheaper steak option at around £12-£13. When his meal came out I asked him where is steak was, we found it hiding under a fairly large mushroom! The jacket potato, he couldn't eat because it was stale, probably cooked a few days earlier, and the side salad was very uninspiring. My daughter had the half rack of ribs with chips. She enjoyed the ribs but the chips were dissapointing. My daughter finished off with the Oreo cheesecake, which she didnt actually finish, because she said it tasted stale. Altogether my husband had 4 pints of beer, and my daughter and I had 3 diet cokes. When we finaly got the bill we went into shock. The whole effort came to a little over £75.00!! I could have produced that whole meal for probably not more than £15.00 from Iceland. Suffice to say I WILL NOT be a returning customer!!

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