The Frustrated Chef

90-94 Chilwell Rd, Beeston, Nottingham
0115 922 8300

Recent Reviews

Steve Wain

First time visit. Lunchtime menu.Food amazing and service great. Cannot praise too highly. Will be back.Thanks to the young lady who served us.Only rated the atmosphere as four star because it was not busy.

Freddie Dyke

Excellent food, very generous portions, and very good value for money if you get the lunchtime set menu.

philip harriman

Excellent service and quality of food. You get plenty ended up taking some

Matt Knight

Food was unfortunately sub standard. Fish heavily battered and ruined the fish making it not edible .The other dishes were average and didn’t taste fresh .Sorry but wouldn’t recommend.

Richard N

Went for celebration meal but was v disappointed and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Went on 30th Jan was that the chef’s night off?!! ‘Beetroot, apple and feta salad with feta and almonds’ was good - but too heavy on the mayo unfortunately, especially since menu didn’t mention mayo - I cannot eat mayo! See photo. Too thick batter on tempura sea bass - made it too heavy with such a delicate and fine fish - see photo. Too much salt and sugar used in many dishes - like the calamari (v salty) and the sweet potato/halloumi dish (v sugary glazing). Said ‘Breads, with extra virgin olive oil & balsamic vinegar’ on menu but only one type of bread came - was one of those cheap supermarket baguettes you buy in plastic then reheat in oven. Offering just one type of bread is not ‘breads’ ( which means more than one type of bread) so mis-sold there - which is rare in restaurants. Server said bread was sourdough but it didn’t taste at all of sourdough - had that pre-baked supermarket baguette taste instead. Olives were 2 black olives and rest were all green olives - need variety please! The ‘Halloumi, sweet potatoes, sweet chilli and cashews’ was 90% sweet potato (see photo) which was disappointing especially since halloumi was the first named ingredient in menu description. Generally very disappointing quality of food.

Sandra Mayo

Cosy and casual. Great menu choice, excellent service. Fantastic

wayne dykes

Dined here again on Saturday early evening,Been here many times but this visit was particularly goodFood excellent, Belly Pork is next level,service spot on ( can be hit and miss)Al in all great evening , definitely will be coming back soon ?

Hayley Wilgucki

Really lovely little restaurant with lovely staff. Pace was perfect for a tapas place. Very yummy, we will be

SL Konnaris

The food here is out of this world! You are missing out if you don’t try this place!! Staff very friendly. Very relaxed atmosphere. Can’t recommend enough.

Francisco Andrés Acuña Redard

It's a very nice place to go and enjoy some fine and practical food. Everything we asked for was really good and in very generous portions as well. Service was really good as well. Our attendant was super nice and had enough patience to answer all of our questions with a smile. Nice music and ambience. Toilets were impeccable.The chairs could use a small upgrade, though :)

Gary France

Beautiful food as always but the gluten free options seemed to have reduced since the last time we came which is a shame. My wife is coeliac and it's getting more difficult to find good places to eat.

Anita Gallagher

Lovely food for 8 of us celebrating a friends special birthday.Service was very slow, took over 20 minutes to be asked, and served a drink. Ordered breads and oil to graze on, but this came out mid meal so most of it was not eaten. It does say dishes will come out when ready but I was sat with ust Patatas bravas (an accompanyment), another with all her ordered dishes and one friend with nothing for ages. Very disjointed. Set menu choices were already running out at 7pm! alternatives made to original order just to be told 10 mins later they were sold out as well,when asked to replace with a dish off the set menu we were told no so ended up spending more than expected.Overall a disappointing experience.

Wayne Radford

Great place, lovely atmosphere with great service.Food was excellent served just at the right time.Choices was good too both meaty and vegetarian.Finally a reasonably priced.. We had 8 dishes with wine and beer came £25 each (x4)

Alex Smith

The food is lovely here but on our third visit left feeling disappointed again.Well aware that the dishes come to the table when they're ready but when you're waiting for the final dish and everything else eaten it's not great.Had warm prosecco this time without an adequate alternative offer, ice or popping it back in the fridge wasn't good. Sadly this is likely our last visit.

Alison Price

First time here for a birthday meal.Can't fault the food, very nice, however the service wasn't great... four of us were 'pointed' over to our table & we'd barely sat down (6pm) when we were told, they we're very busy tonight & this table was booked again at 7.30.... made us feel very unwelcome immediately.... service was without any smiles, no personality.....therefore, no tip. We were there less than an hour & a half and £150 lighter.... full up.... but very disappointed

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