We live and work very near The Parnell and used to go for dinners there quite regularly. In the same time, we have been recommending the place to lots of our international guests and friends.
Being busy, we hadn’t been there ourselves in a while so I decided a few days ago, to bring my family there who came over from Belgium for a visit.
All I can say is that it was a disaster and huge disappointment! Alarm bells went off when our waiter asked us if we wanted our starters first??
There was no vegetarian option so I ordered the chicken Caesar salad without the chicken....after having served our starters, the waiter told me that the Caesar salad is in fact spinach + some mixed leaf salad so I declined while that is not a Caesar salad as described on the menu.
The kids and my mum had ordered the chicken burger and it was sooo spicy they couldn’t eat it. You would expect the waiter would have informed us that the burgers were going to be too hot & spicy for 2 young kids (7 & 9).
After seeing our half filled plates while clearing the table, a different waiter apologized and she said she was really busy running around. At that point, I explained to her I was not a tourist because that was how we got treated....as in ‘ we won’t see them again so we don’t care’ attitude!