Filini Restaurant

re-my previous review: a letter of complaint to Filinis has elicited no response over a month later. Well, that's service for you!
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John Humphreys
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

One of the worst dining experiences we have had for many a year; lazy incompetent cooking (Saturday 7th August 2010). Shame because we had been looking forward to going to this highly rated new Italian in Birmingham. Starters were fine, the service was excellent and that's were my praise ends. For my wife to have to send her dry tasteless monkfish (£17.50) back is bad enough ; for me (who is generally uncomplaining and can eat virtually anything) to have to return my fat laded fritto misto suggest that something is seriously amiss in the kitchin. Worse still was that the chef admitted it shouldn't have been sent out - so why was it? No control in the kitchin clearly. Two limp side salads, unimaginative and tasteless (expensive also) completed our order. What to have in the fritto's place? Ended up with one of the worst pizzas imaginable - if an Italian restaurant can't produce a decent pizza for God's sake what hope is there!? Eat two mouthfuls, got the bill (nothing knocked off) and left vowing never to return. To be fair to them they did offer us another meal on a different date but would you want to repeat the experience - life is short! Oh, I forgot to mention the wine; they didn't have the £20 bottle of Pinot Grigio we ordered but gave us a £25 bottle of Minini for the same price - nice gesture. I would have expected to pay no more than £3.99 for this is Tesco. There you have it my friends - beware!
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Food 1 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Sunday, August 08, 2010