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★★☆☆☆

“Expensive for Swinton”

written by on 26/03/2012

I hadn't been to puccinis for a while- used to go regularly years ago when it was a small trattoria on the corner of the precinct - it was very good value for money back then - lovely food at a price suited to its surroundings.
Have visited the relocated Puccinis a few times before and found it to be ok. However on my most recent visit (Friday 23 March 2012) I was most disappointed.
My Husband and myself were shown to our seats and ordered a drink each - the seats in Puccinis have always been the same - uncomfortable - I ordered sardines for starter (£6.95) expected about 4 sardines but got 2 - very measly for the price but they tasted fine. My husband ordered italian Ribs -he said they were delicious but priced at £8.50, in my opinion, a little on the high side.
For main course I had a pasta with Monkfish dish from the specials menu which was £13.50 -again a little expensive but again tasted great.My husband had "Penne a la giggs" pasta with a bolognese type sauce - he said it was ok -nothing special. We ordered the house white wine at £15 and was brought a bottle so assumed it was the house wine. A constant stream of waiters insisted on pouring it for us, practically everytime they passed the table , interupting us to the point I had to ask them to leave it - we would pour it ourselves. We didnt order desserts -just 2 coffees and I had an Amaretto liqueur. It was very hot in the restaurant and i asked the waiter to put the ceiling fan on near to us but it wasnt working. When we went to pay the bill the wine on the receipt was not the house wine and was listed as a pinot grigio at £23 - we pointed this out to the man at the till and he called Mr pucci who brought the bottle on the receipt and asked if this was the one we had which it was but not the one we ordered.
He made no suggestion of refunding the £8 difference. Our total bill was £81.00 - I think given the area and type of restaurant this is extremely expensive - If I am paying that amount for a meal I would expect it to be perfect, in a lot nicer surroundings - it wasnt - we felt we'd been ripped off on leaving and I will not be going again.

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