The Southern Bar — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

VERY disappointing visit to this establishment on October 23rd. Firstly the food, which is handsomely priced arrived rather tepid, with soggy fries and flavourless burger. Not the first time this has happened here... maybe becoming too successful and not trying as they did in the past.

More worrying however was the fact that I (a paying customer) was stung in the chest by a wasp. Upon looking around we found that there were intact several dozen wasp carcasses on the widow ledge with several wasp flying around. In short, there seemed to be a nest somewhere in the boxed window behind our seat.

I immediately noticed staff and told them I had to leave as I am allergic to the wasp venom. I had already started to feel rather poorly. The staff were more focussed on me paying my bill, than me getting to a place to try squeeze any venom/sting out and getting an antihistamine rather than waiting and having to be hospitalised. So apparently customer safety is not a concern.

I contacted the establishment the next day and told them again the outcome, that I didn't need hospitalisation, that I was able to control the symptoms with 2 antihistamine which then knocked me out - and was forced to cancel my plans for the evening, including the loss of a theatre ticket.

I asked for senior management to contact me so as to reach a suitable resolution, as clearly someone hadn't been doing their jobs (i.e. cleaner not checking all corners/windows). So far nothing has been done.

Poor work all round for The Southern ... two thumbs down,

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