Fibre Leeds — Restaurant in Leeds

I was part of a large group for a hen party, collectively we spent a lot of money for our drag brunch and had been looking forward to the event for months. I’ve been around Manchesters gay village many times as that is where I’m from, yet never been met with the ego and pretentious behaviour from the drag queens last night. Having a laugh and being a little derogatory is expected, we’re thick skinned. Last night however was below the belt entirely, in which both drag artists were physically putting hands on a couple of members of our party and shoving them. Plain and simple assault and absolutely not the way to deal with paying customers. One member of our party was dancing on the walkway, she was having a bit of fun during the performance. Rather than just ask nicely, or even in a jokey way for her to get off during the ‘performance’ (bit of miming and cat walking, nothing amazing compared to what I’ve seen elsewhere), she was physically pushed off of the platform, twice. On one of the occasions actually into a table. I didn’t realise it was acceptable to manhandle somebody in this way - especially as you could have seriously hurt her, given the fact they were at least a foot taller than her. ‘Coco’ in particular then went off on an absolute litany of abuse, abuse far beyond a joke or poking fun, worse than Karen’s diner, where you’d actually GO to be picked on. Another member of our party - who had only had a couple of drinks and wasn’t drunk or incoherent in anyway - tried to speak like an ADULT with the drag queens after to ascertain why they felt the force and behaviour was necessary, she was also jabbed in the ribs, had raspberries blown in her face, again entirely unprovoked as neither women were being rowdy or aggressive in any way. Appalling behaviour. Then also moving on to the actual drag brunch itself, putting aside the events that happened, it was NOT worth £45. A couple of trays of sandwiches between 4 tables, a tray of brownies enough for 1 each and 1 tray of stone cold samosas and spring rolls. Also the brunch was far from bottomless, I was asked for 1 drink as we were seated and we were brought 2 pitchers for one table which had 6 of us sat there - the pitcher being majority ice as well. Any other bottomless brunch I’ve attended the food has been miles better and frequent drinks have been brought or offered. The actual venue itself too, as you first enter there’s a really unpleasant almost toilet smell? Toilets had hardly any toilet paper, which was an issue on another review from months ago, clearly not being improved on. Sticky floor, and just overall poor service. The only plus point was a security guard who said his name was Blessing, as he actually came over to us outside to check we were okay and said that under no circumstances we should have been shoved or touched.

We do have video evidence of what happened, and we will be taking action further if this isn’t...

We attended Fibre Drag Brunch for a Hen do of 17 people. On arrival there was 3 long tables in the brunch room, all completely full of people, we all huddled at the back of the room where there were some benches. We tried to speak to the staff about there being no table space for us and were told that there's no "assigned seating". So our only options were to stay as a group at the back of the room with no table or try to squish in between all the other parties. For £45 I at least expect a table to put my drink on.

Brunch rooms felt like a dingy basement with a very damp smell.

For drinks you go to the bar yourself, which I don't mind however the massive queues for a drink further made it feel like the brunch was overbooked. Not only that but the only beer they had were tins from a fridge with no plastic glass unless you want one of the tiny ones. Again, for £45 should I really be sat there drinking out of a tin I'd waited 15 minutes for?

The food was tasteless, I'd describe it as "it filled a hole" tasteless chicken skewer with boiled rice and boiled potatoes with some sort of flimsy flatbread underneath.

Overall, go elsewhere. Spend £45 somewhere else and you'll at least get a table to put your pulled pint on and table service. You might even be able to get...

AVOID AVOID AVOID.... booked a table in the penthouse to celebrate a 30th birthday and paid £300 upfront to reserve the table the table was booked for 10pm till close and we didn't intend to go anywhere else. When we arrived we was expecting que jump like the booking said but the door staff moved us to one side and asked us to que we was then told we would be rufused entery as we where underdressed and that is total rubbish all the group(3x couples) was well dressed and the door staff was letting people in shorts and sports clothes in at the same time saying we was underdressed, we said we would change clothes as we lived local and was told it wouldn't make a difference we still wouldn't get in. When asking to speak to management we was told no and the door staff started to become agressive. A huge disappointment as I have had many a good night in fibre and this really did ruin the 30th birthday celebration.

I'd also like to add it looks like the use of drugs is acceptable in your bar now as people sat outside doing cocaine from the back of there hands this bar really has gone down hill !!!

Edited 15-6-2021

It's also nice to see that fibre have taken the time to reply to other reviews from the same time period and not to mine. Fabulous...