Nando's (George Street)

My friend and I were running errands before a big night out and, it being sunny and gorgeous, looked for somewhere to stop for libations and maybe a small bite. There were empty tables at Nando's, so we thought we would give it a shot - in all honesty, just to be outside.

My friend ordered a simple drink off the menu (a wine spritzer), which they struggled to make and eventually gave her two tumbler glasses of white wine and told her she could just top it off with whatever from the soda fountain - and I ordered a beer, which was warm. Granted, when I told the waiter, he replaced it with a cold one.

We also ordered pita and hummus, and olives - both were extremely overpriced. There was no hummus (they had dropped the tub in the kitchen - and the fact that they didn't offer to make more implies that it's shipped in) so they offered a roasted red pepper dip, which was sugary sweet and swimming with cheap oil. The olives weren't great, and the too-few pieces of pitta bread were completely stale (hard around the edges, and rubbery in the centre).

After this experience I would never consider going back.

Kate (Unverified), 13/07/08

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Agree with Kate. I get so sick of the OTT "Have A Nice Day" American falseness in the service, and blatantly servile over-attentiveness.

Food is way overpriced, I guess to pay for at least 20 employees I saw running into each other.

dirt cobbler (DI User), 04/05/08

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Nandos in Oxford City Centre: Just a note to say that we ate at the new Nandos yesterday.

There was no atmosphere, 'Have a nice day' staff, who were over attentive, and a queue to buy food that meant you spent half the evening standing up. If the manager and the staff had spent more time on the till, I might not have missed my brother's birthday meal waiting to buy banana frozen yoghurt, which, by the way, was disgusting!

Food is also overpriced. What happended to the Nandos I went to 2 years ago?

Kate (DI User), 06/03/08

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