Red Earth - Lifestyle Store & Restaurant — Restaurant in County Westmeath

Just an unpleasant experience all round. The food was ok but the place is just a big, busy disorganised canteen .... with restaraunt prices. I ordered a salmon pastry dish at the front counter- thought it would be quick as it was already made, just had to be heated up. I took a number and was told it would be dropped down to me. It was hard to find a clean table and all staff seemed to moving at snails pace with no-one cleaning tables. I went no get water - no glasses - staff seemed flustered and unable to handle people asking for water/cutlery etc. There doesn't seen to be anyone managing the staff. When glasses eventually were available, you have to fill up at this silly station where there is nowhere to rest a tray down! - v. badly organised. The two others I was with had their food dropped down by a rude girl , who plonked theur dishes down and then didn't check if I was waiting on anything. When another staff member came back around the corner, I let her know I was still waiting on a dish. She shouted over to the first girl who made a face and told me they'd check on it (no apology) I waited another 15 minutes. My friends had finished their meals at this stage. Another staff member came around the corner and i let her know I was still waiting on my meal. She was friendly and said she'd check, she eventually came back with my meal ... and no apology whatsoever (!) My friends were long finished their meals at this stage. After all that waiting the food was fairly average.

Loud, inexplicably busy, inefficient and poorly organised with ppor customer service.The best thing I could say about this place is that it has...

My family and I called in for dinner but hadn’t planned. First we met a snooty waitress and don’t know if we were not dressed fancy enough or is she being paid to speak down to guests to give the appearance of a fancy restaurant. Could have been cause it was 16:10 and they close at 17:00 but didn’t think it was that bad. But definitely don’t like being snubbed by a min wage waitress that’s probably being out earned by a McDonald’s server. (And outclassed). We have a 6 month who just started solids so we ordered a wee bowl of mash for her. I told snooty that we just want a wee tiny Scoop for baby , she automatically assumed we were talking about cost and said we still have to charge. I just didn’t want them to leave down the huge bowl of mash that they did. Didn’t want extra waste. Although there name is not green earth. I got the cheese steak. I can’t tell you what it was like because all I could taste was plastic cheese. If you are going to act like that then don’t be putting easi singles on a steak. Wife can’t remember name of what she ordered but what came was pasta soaked in pesto and a chicken fillet on the side. I know cooking it this way is a lot easier for the chef but the customer would like their chicken cooked with the meal to absorb the flavour. The waiter who brought our food was very nice and obliging so at least I have one nice thing to...

Three friends and I tried the Asian fusion menu here on a Saturday night for the first time. I opted for the Thai Tom yum soup at €12 which was tasty and filling with a decent amount of prawns. Two of the others chose the Duck bon bons and the other had cheese burger spring roll. For mains I had the pulled lamb Bao buns for €16. You had to order side dishes to add to your main which looked quite skimpy on the plate by themselves. We shared two sides amongst the 4 of us. I expected double the amount for the chicken rice dish and the wok fried noodle and Asian vegetable side which were both respectively priced at 10 euro each. For dessert, a friend and I split and shared the Banoffee spring rolls with toffee syrup and espresso and caramel cheesecake: the latter was the better dish. The banoffee spring rolls were akin to banana fritters. For drinks, I had a Mojito mocktail at €9 as did another of the party. Another had a pink lady mocktail which was the same price as the Mojito mocktail. The non-driver of the group had 2 glasses of Sauvignon which were relatively reasonably priced. 3 of us finished with Americanos at €3.50 each. The total bill came to €208 or so. The staff were pleasant and the background music was very good. Think the portion of the sides need addressing for...