A tacky place that overcharges for synthetic food. I thought it looked like a great treat but was sadly disappointed.
I threw more than half of my American sponge cake away, it was not terrible but lacked any flavour and had that fake cleaning sponge consistency that so many modern factory produced cakes too. It was nothing like a real homemade cake with real ingredients so I didn't feel it was worth the calories to eat more.
The milkshake was the same but was the only thing I finished so that was fine, again you could make better at home with some real ingredients or similar with Morrisons own brand ice cream, some Nesquik powder, sugar and syrup, it's way overpriced for something that tastes mass-produced.
I also had a small ice cream scoop with my cake which I can only ate a spoonful of, maybe I've been spoiled by local Daresbury Dairy who do actually make real ice cream but this from The Little Dessert Shop just tasted of chemicals again to me rather than like real ice cream should. I guess most people are happy with that as it's no worse than the regular ice creams in Morrisons but a lot more expensive.
Finally I had a small portion of the ice cream balls, I bit into one and got the same underwhelming experience so spat that out and threw the rest away sadly. I hate to waste food but this didn't really feel like real food to me, despite looking so pretty.
I'd bought a flapjack type thing for my husband but he smelled it and didn't fancy it so that went in the bin too.
There was nothing actually wrong with it all and everything was presented very nicely but it seems to be a place made for people who like looking at food, taking pictures of it to put on Instagram rather than eating it.
Or for kids who don't know better and their parents have never made them a real cake or taken them for real ice cream ( which ironically is cheaper). This is also fine, each to their own just not for me and I won't ever be going back so therefore couldn't recommend it if you like to actually have flavour in your food instead of synthetic substitutes that look like good but are not...
Read moreFirst time trying the Little Dessert Shop, such a disappointment. First of all there were plenty of tables available however we wanted to sit in a booth, there was one available but it had dirty plates on the table from the previous customers. There must have been at least 6 members of staff and not one of them came over to clean the table, we picked our desserts and ordered and had to ask someone to clear the table, bear in mind we had been sat there for 15 minutes and no one cleared it. I ordered biscoff cheesecake, it came the biscuit on the outside was soggy, and it came with vanilla ice cream, which is the cheapest grainiest ice cream I’ve ever had the displeasure to taste, needless to say I didn’t eat it. My partner got a waffle this was over cooked and came with cheap ice cream again. When we eventually got given cutlery it was dirty. The caramel lattes were Luke warm and tasteless. If you’re thinking of trying it don’t bother as nice as it looks from the outside the food is very disappointing. MJays is by far the better place...
Read moreI am a very loyal customer to this company and I order a lot from here. I had asked for the loaded strawberries to be separate from the chocolate sauce (as I really hate cold chocolate sauce). They have done this before for me no problem. They arrived in the same pot so I thought I would rinse the strawberries and just use my own melted chocolate so I didn’t have to bother them. Unfortunately I think because the sauce had been on the strawberries for some time, they were mushy in texture (and white in colour, like they had been there for ages) so I decided to give them a call to explain. I was told that because I had rinsed the strawberries I had caused them to go mushy and white 🤔 they said that they could send a pot of chocolate but not the strawberries but it was the state of the strawberries that I was bothered about. I will absolutely not use this company again. Customer service is terrible. I wish I could post a picture of the strawberries....
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