Food Shack Street Food — Restaurant in Great Britain

Food great but why employ non English speaking Server? As a couple arrived after 3pm as lunch rush declining. Got drink and waited for table outside.Only table free was a 4 top. It was lovely sitting in sun facing onto street. A server signalled to us if we wanted drinks but she obviously didn’t speak English & we already had drinks from waiting so asked for menus. Then asked if any specials. She smiled, went off and returned without specials. So asked 2nd time if any specials. She smiled & returned a while later with a pad & pen.We asked 3rd time if any specials! She smiled & we realised she didn’t have a clue what we were saying! Confused as to why you would employ a server who doesn’t speak or understand English? Then another server came & we asked for 4th time if any specials! Hallelujah! He gave us a specials board! This had prob taken up a good 20mins or so! We ordered seafood risotto special plus mussels and chips, bottle of wine for me and Moretti for my partner. After a while non English speaking girl came over with beer. I waited and waited for wine to materialise but nothing! In the end we had to go inside and ask for it! If we’d known, as we found out later, that we were only allowed 1-1.5 hrs MAX on the table I prob wldn’t have ordered a bottle of wine for one person, as, by time I received it I had max one hour to drink it! Food was fantastic. Risotto really good. Big fat scallops, lots tender squid, mussels and tasty fresh prawns. Mussels & chips also good if sauce a little too creamy. Only downside was non English speaking server, who put risotto down didn’t bring us any cutlery! We had our food but nothing to eat it with! Luckily another server noticed before we had to go in and ask for that as well! We did have to try & attract someone to ask for pepper as weren’t offered any condiments either! We enjoyed our time in sun, ordered more Morettis and people watched. In meantime a party of 3 had chosen to sit next to us on a table of 2, blocking balcony and preventing servers from getting to our table. One server asked 3rd man to move aside because she couldn’t get to our table to take a drinks order! Despite this the table of 3 on a table of 2 were permitted to give a food order which everybody knew wasn’t going to fit on the 2 top table! I thought they’d prob move inside when their food came. I did think about offering them our table, but our table was in the sun and theirs was in the shade & as there was another couple on a 4 top plus free tables inside and as we’d already spent £70 & were still ordering beers & having s lovely time I decided to stay put. However, when their food was due to come out we were asked to move and let them have our table! I wasn’t happy & said I wanted to stay in the sun, plus there was another couple on a 4 top who could have moved! They pointed us to another table partially in the sun. Then they let another couple sit at that table as we were getting up to move to it so then had to turf them off and give them the table that wasn’t in the sun! The guy got quite irate & accused us of taking their table & it was horrible & was just ruining our lovely lunch. The view from the new table was blocked by a big flag, and it was directly in front of the back of the kitchen with the doors open & all I could smell was chip fat! I wasn’t happy so we got the bill to which £7 service had been automatically added for forgotten specials boards, forgotten wine, forgotten cutlery, forgotten condiments & being ejected from our table! Couldn’t be bothered to argue about it & spoil things further! On enquiry about being moved the manager said they allow 1-1.5 hrs MAX per table or they wldn’t make any money! Nobody said that when we sat down! Manager said we were LUCKY they found us another table to move to! Wow! What wld they have done otherwise? Turfed me onto the street with my bottle of wine? It’s left me with mixed feelings. I live 10 mins walk away & cld’ve been a regular..we were talking about breakfast there before…now...

What can I say, this is the second visit I've made to this restaurant and I am even more addicted. Firstly the staff are all very welcoming and helpful allowing me to sit on the balcony in the sunshine so picturesque. The lady who served me was lovely and the service fast and professional. The place is very rustic but clean and sanitised after every customer. The food I ordered today was the Linguine Mare at a cost of £18.00 one of the more expensive dishes on the menu and worth every penny, the dish was cooked with fresh local seafood from the cockle sheds around the corner. I asked for a side salad in addition for an extra £3.00 not bad. The food cooked to perfection and the presentation artistic, the chef obviously takes pride in his/her work. On the first occasion I came here I ordered breakfast Avocado on toast with poached egg and rocket simply beautiful, this is what prompted me to come back and I am not disappointed. I can't sing the praises of this establishment highly enough, give it a try you will be glad you did. I am now enjoying my second decaff tea and will definitely be back again before I leave...

We were pleased to be able to get a table whilst down in Old Leigh, as excited to see what this new restaurant had to offer.

It has a really good range of food, including a great specials board, without having pages of options - something we prefer.

We decided to share a starter (Burrata) which was not only presented beautifully but the addition of prosciutto and roasted tomatoes made it even more delicious.

My husband had the seafood pasta, a special of the day, and I had the chicken Caesar salad. Both were full of flavour.

All of the staff were warm and friendly. When asked our if we were enjoying our food, we both felt that it was a genuine request and that they were keen to ensure that everything was right so they could review and amend if needed.

As locals, we will definitely be returning in the future.

P.s. I had noticed the 1 bad review left and also noticed it was a new account with no other reviews attached. Unfortunately some people don’t like good competition and personally I believe that this is...