Congleton
George V at Ashford Castle

George V at Ashford Castle

Ashford Castle Cong, Co. Mayo F31 CA48, F31 XD56, Congleton, United Kingdom

Pizza • Irish • Seafood • European


"TL/DR: Bland, ‘old’ food. Interesting history. Sits on gorgeous castle grounds. NOT worth the price. Service team beholden to old ideas and traditions inconsistent with the needs of the modern dining experience. Let me admit a few things: 1) I’m an American and due to our history, I have developed a more sensitive radar to help recognize when my white privilege and colonialism are being put on a pedestal. 2) I don’t know a lot about the history there, why certain traditions have been preserved at George V, and I don’t pretend to know how the staff feel about working there. I bought a book on Ireland’s history to better understand the complicated relationship between Ireland and the crown. 3) I get it, it’s a restaurant review, not a history book. But when you name a place after a former king, we naturally get here. The quick and dirty becuase I have minimal characters left: the grounds are gorgeous the restaurant was built for George V and man does it feel and taste like it is deliberately maintaining old preparation techniques and ideas yikes the food was not good. It just wasn’t. It’s not the service team’s fault, but someone in charge who is choosing to hold on to a boring, outdated menu catering to old, rich white people (small changes could have made the meal interesting and like it belongs in 2022) the only diversity present was among the service team. It’s cringey as a diner. multiple people served us in a disconnected way: the person who sat us took our order (which confused another person), someone else spoke to us about wine and couldn’t answer other questions, someone else served it, and none of those were our main server I left this experience feeling disappointed and confused. How much of my experience is white guilt vs real restaurant problems? Should a restaurant rooted in royal history consider their representation of colonialism in 2022 a real restaurant problem? I absolutely think so."

Wild And Wild

Wild And Wild

2 Bridge St, Congleton, England, CW12 1AY, United Kingdom

Cafés • Coffee • British • Burgers


"They have Chocolate mint cake, can 't believe it! I 've never seen anywhere serve this before! It wasn 't too sweet, the sweetness came from the mint frosting and mint cream in the middle, there was a thin mint on top which was fabulous. However, the cake itself was dry and didn 't taste of chocolate much, couldn 't finish it but it was an awesome option to have 3/5 The Satay wrap was SO so salty.....I could not finish it also, I wished that there was more fresh cucumber, coriander and salsa in there to balance out with the saltiness of the miso satay seitan. It came with sweet and chilli sauce which I kept dipping the wrap in as it was mainly just sweet to counteract the salt 0.5/5 The Oreo milkshake, omg, it was delicious, the best thing out of my orders, I don 't have to go to Manchester for delicious milkshakes anymore! The froth/ fluffy whipped cream on top was so so good 5/5 Full breakfast was good, mushrooms were juicy but the amount of spinach on there was abysmal, toast was not buttered! Rosti was....so so as it felt/ tasted like it was made the day before and was quite bland, not enough tomatoes, sausage was ok, beans were good and the bakon, avocado and scrambled tofu was good. Overall it didn 't look like much but it was filling in the end 4/5 Toast Session IPA was amazing 5/5 They did a good cup of English tea too. Staffs were lovely and they serve water with fruits in it lovely. Came back again, the chicken burger was quite oily but still yummy, the salt and pepper chips were okay, not the prettiest looking chips, it was not crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, just floppy and dark (not burnt? chips lol. The breakfast burrito was good and the avocado toast was ok. Second time round, the staff service was questionable.....we kept signalling for service but the staffs just....looked at us and doesn 't come over several times, and when I asked another staff for 3 spoons....we got 3 forks? Asked for water and didn 't get any....we got served by 3 different people each were either not really listening, forgot something or ignored us. Updated from previous review on 2021 12 05"