Sakura Bistro — Restaurant in Cotswold District

The restaurant has a very nice outdoor seating area. We sat at a table and expected a server to stop and give us menus. After about 15 mins of the server wandering past us I had to go into the restaurant and interrupt 3 servers having a chat. I asked for menus and eventually they found 2. Back at the table again and again we waited. Finally a server came by and took our order. At this point there were 3 servers and a total of 4 tables. The food was ok nothing fantastic. While we were eating another couple came in and waited. At this point there were still 3 servers and 2 tables including us. Finally after at least 20 minutes a regular customer that had been there earlier came by and asked if the couple had been served. He then went in and got a server to come out with menus and eventually take their order. After we got our meal we never saw our server again. We again had to go into and interrupt the staff visiting to get a bill and pay. I feel for the owner as the staff will kill...

We went on a Sunday and there was a lot of space but really there don't seem to be a lot of people eating in Moreton on a Sunday for some reason.

We ordered Bao buns, beef burger and falafels with a shake and a smoothie with 2 coffees

The shake and smoothie were amongst the best I've had to be honest - top marks for these. The coffee was also top tier (although my wife said cappuccino had too much foam)

The food was variable - Bao buns only small (X2) despite costing the same as the burger (£15). The burger was huge but both the bun and the burger was overcooked making the whole thing quite brittle and lacking in juiciness. I think for £15 I'd expect three Bao buns or two for £12?

The falafels were above average and certainly better than others I've had for the same price

Service was fast and friendly.

Overall, the drinks and sweets counter - 5* would come again and recommend. Savouries from the kitchen - overpriced and at least on our visit -...

Staff are nice and friendly but overall not a good experience. The £8 chicken tenders starter was tasty but TINY and covered in unnecessary micro herbs. For mains we both had the braised short rib ragu linguine and unfortunately it was not good at all. Again, lots of unnecessary micro herbs but didn’t taste fresh, have any depth of flavour and wasn’t made from chunks of meat as the name “ragu” would suggest and the pasta was over cooked. We went back about a week later to try the ice cream area (think it’s great they’re open late and still serving ice cream) but the ice cream was rock hard, very icy and not very flavourful. I felt awful for the lovely girl serving us as clearly she’d had no training - mix that with rock hard ice cream and she was on a recipe for disaster. (That’s not to say she wasn’t lovely though)...