Zest Restaurant

Truly amazing variety of buffet items which sit there and lose flavour and texture until they are just a disappointment to eat. Wide range of curries too but for some reason, instead of being thick and rich, they are all watery - every single one. Our feeling is that Zest focuses too hard on volume and has forgotten about quality. Consequently we've left several times underwhelmed and I don't think we'll be back in a hurry. Also. After seeing the notice advertising weekday lunches I drove for half an hour one Wednesday, to find that they don't do lunches any more except on Sundays. Pah!
2 7 years ago (10-10-2017)

Went yesterday for the 7 course traditional turkey Christmas dinner. Appetisers were 2 curly fries, a couple of criss cross fries and a very mini quiche all on a big plate. No dips. Next was a "sharing platter" which was all breaded and fried: a fishfinger, mozzarella stick, mushroom, prawn and 2 or 3 chicken goujons. Each. Again on a big plate each (nothing platter or sharing about it) with no dips or sauces. It looked like Iceland food. Next was warm chicken soup with croutons. Dinner was a slice of meat which may have been turkey and mixed veg consisting of carrots, peas, sweetcorn and I had 1 small piece of broccoli and cauliflower (my husband didn't). Stuffing looked like minced chicken spread over the meat but wasn't actually stuffing. It was pretty indescribable really. 4 frozen roast potatoes, cranbery sauce straight out of a jar. All covered in a yellow greasy coconut tasting oil. Yes coconut. Not sprouts or pigs in blankets. No gravy. No condiments on the table but we were offered ketchup. Xmas pudding and sauce were cold, not warm in the slightest. At this point we asked for the bill and left. No one asked why we were leaving before the coffee and cheese and biscuits, they couldn't care less and just wanted us gone. There were no Xmas decorations in the room which was bare and quite stark. Everything was very cheap looking, especially the crackers on the table. Have they fallen on hard times or just stopped caring how they treat customers? 2 pints of diet coke were £7.20. It was unbelievable and ruined the day for us. I have a picture of my main course that I'd love to post. It doesn't deserve 1 star but you have to give it one in order to leave a rating. Most of the good reviews seem to be from several years ago. It should close its doors in shame for what they served us today.
1 7 years ago (26-12-2017)

Sorry can not even give it a star christmas lunch was shocking they used a bag of frozen mixed veg with sweet corn frozen roast potatos no brussels no pigs in blankets they don't do gravey instead they use cocanut butter pored over everything it was disgusting starters was a couple of curly fries with one fish finger, christmas pudding served iced cold not heated with chilled brandy source we never bothered stopping for cheese and biscuits felt sick, dining room looked like a works canteen
1 7 years ago (25-12-2017)

Fantastic fun xmas night out would of been 5 stars nut no korma on the buffet 😞 the rice and onion bargee were lovely and my friends all said the curry's were really god
4 7 years ago (20-12-2017)

Excellent food and very polite service.
5 7 years ago (03-02-2018)