Sebz — Restaurant in Gloucester

We arrived relatively early at roughly 5pm to an empty restaurant and positively greeted by the lovely waitress (Eva I believe her name was?). We were seated on a fairly uncomfortable chair in quite a dim area, so was quite difficult to see what was happening on the table when eating. After being seated we were quickly asked about drinks and were presented with a menu. We went with a Sangria (which was out of this world!) and a Coca Cola. After this arrived, our food order was taken to which was a poorly presented menu with fairly confusing instructions and terrible descriptions for the food items, not to mention the fact the menu itself was a bulky slat of wood - weird idea? Despite us being the only customers at the time of being served, it still took 45 minutes for our first round of courses to arrive.

Food Ordered:

// Chicken stuffed with mozzarella — Dense as a rock, had a really solid texture on the inside and was very chewy for a piece of chicken. Felt like I was eating gum. Parma ham was nice and well baked on the outside.

// Piri Piri Chicken — Similar texture problem to the previous. Most of the chicken items received were either thighs or leg, and didn’t actually have much “meat” on them, majority was either carcass or pure bone(inedible). Sauce itself was tasty, quite thin in terms of consistency though - normally I’d opt for a slightly thicker option but nice nonetheless.

// Fried Potatoes — Basically just cubes of potatoes stuck in a deep fat fryer drowned in salt. Nothing special at all. Dip provided was way too spicy and overpowering to accompany the food, wouldn’t recommend.

// Breaded Mozzarella Bites?? — Coating was cohesive and crispy, though very bland. It came glazed in honey, presentation of that looked abysmal (literally looked like the honey was dropped and drowning the poor cheese bites :(). Honey had a chilli taste too it, far too overpowering for this dish.

Additionally, as you work your way through multiple courses, you’ll begin to realise your portion sizes getting increasingly smaller. For example, on the first round of Piri Piri Chicken, I was presented with a leg, breast, and thigh. On the second round a leg and thigh. Third round, just 2 thighs, of which 80% was inedible.

I’ve seen better food presentation done by my younger brother in his secondary school catering lessons than here. It’s kind of just shamelessly thrown on a plate and served to the table. This put me off the food before I even entered the building. If it wasn’t for a very excited partner looking to relive her childhood memories at this place, I wouldn't have come. Disappointing to say the least.

Menu choice was pretty s* to say the least. Wouldn’t say this represents a med tapas restaurant, and to echo a previous review, it looks like a bunch of Iceland party food bits smacked into a bowl and nuked in the microwave for 60 seconds. For 26£ each, I expected world class hospitality. I’d expect this quality from a chicken shop on Barton street delivered by an Uber eats driver called Akmed.

Not to mention, when ordering our 2nd round of items, the bald bowling ball chef rolled down the stairs and began shouting at the waitress about our order due to her poor handwriting. He seemed very stressed about a table of two, must burst a few blood vessels cooking for a table of 3!

Where the waitress was lovely, and she definitely helped during our evening meal, she was rather eager to share her art with us and proceeded to showcase it to us, amongst other tables of which we observed during the evening. I wouldn’t say she forced us, but she was rather keen to put us in a position where we should buy a card from her, which as far as I’m aware - wasn’t a part of the Sebz business. The item was lovely however, though she insisted we pay cash for the item. When we noted we were not able to do this, she added it to the bill and we were charged service charge on that amount!

All in all, this put us off significantly and won’t be returning to somewhere that treats their staff and...

Went to Sebz last night and my wife and I really enjoyed the experience. Service was brisk, friendly and the food was good.

Although the restaurant is not in a pretty part of town it was easy and to park right outside (after 6pm). When we arrived we were shown to a table for four with two place settings. I liked that we were given a spacious table. Most restaurants lead you to a small table for two even if larger ones are free. I noticed there were a few tables for four laid for two, a nice touch.

We had decided before arrival from other reviews and the Sebz website to try the all you can eat tapas for £14.95 each. It was actually 20% less than that as we had a promo voucher downloaded from their website. Our drinks were a cold pint of, the Portuguese beer, Sagres and a glass of sangria - both refreshing.

The tapas were overall better than good. We had 18 (!) with only a couple of repeats (the duck leg and mushrooms in garlic). Portion size was excellent - some very large for tapas. Highlights were the duck legs, calamari, mushrooms in garlic, piri-piri chicken, mediterranean chicken, tomato salad and broad beans.

For this meal for two inc 3 drinks (a macchiato to finish) for under £40 was really good value. We were given, as was another couple who were also amongst the last to leave, given a Portuguese liquer to try which was a very nice touch.

We intend to go back when we're passing again. Keep up the great work...

We went to Sebz Saturday evening for my friends birthday.

We were a group of 6 and that evening they had a very large group in.

We were sat towards the back of the restaurant and so close to our neighbouring table that formed an L behind us, that waiters and anyone else struggled to get through. I angled my chair so there would be a bit more space, but that meant I was uncomfortable all evening until the table left.

It would have also meant that no disabled person would have easily been able to go through as there was simply no space.

The service was very slow, my table ordered a second round of tapas and it took around 30 minutes, despite the fact that the big table had already been served and tables had left.

The first round of tapas had a tapas missing and I had the risotto and red peppers meal, the risotto was still slightly crunchy so I left my meal.

The ambience is great and the team are clearly very happy there which is always really nice to see ☺️ but things kept getting forgotten, we had also asked for more water and it never materialised. But drinks kept trying to get pushed, despite us saying no thank you.

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