Las Iguanas - Liverpool — Restaurant in Liverpool

We booked the bottomless brunch here for 29/6/24 12noon . . .

There were five of us. A £25 deposit was made at the time of booking/£5 per person . . .

We were seated promptly upstairs and that's when it all went downhill 🫣 We were moved from table to table three times within ten minutes. Why? 👎🏼

The small table we ended up on was filthy, sticky and belonged in an old ale house at best 👎🏼

So it's a bottomless brunch. The food isn't bottomless but the drinks/cocktails are. I say cocktails - more like 'mocktails' 👎🏼

I ordered my favourite drink - Long Island Iced Tea. I've had this many many times over around 37 years plus I make this at home so I know a good one when I taste it!

It's a strong drink with 'a lot' of alcohol in it. . .

This one WAS the weakest sweetest attempts at a LIIT I've ever had the displeasure to taste - ever! It was terrible. Really terrible 👎🏼

The group I was with ordered Sex on the beach - another classic cocktail they got horribly wrong.

The whole group felt that the drinks we had were more like a fruit juice. Super sickly sweet and low in alcohol.

We also ordered five pints of corona. It was as flat as a pancake. A horrible pint if ever there was one. One of our group actually delivers beer kegs to food and drink establishments in Liverpool city centre - he knows his stuff. If he says it was a rubbish flat pint - it was! And it was!👎🏼

The food . . .

Four people ordered a burger - which went down well! 👍🏼

One ordered the Mexican rice bowl. The portion was tiny - like a kids portion- honestly! There wasn't much to it either. Looked/tasted like microwave packet rice with a few bits of chillies and several kidney beans thrown in.

A feeble effort at a Mexican rice bowl 👎🏼

Of course we didn't stay for the two hour bottomless brunch time slot. We asked for the bill. . .

The bill astonishingly was well over £200! For watered down cocktails, four burgers a tiny bowl of rice and flat beer!? Not a chance in hell. They'd even stuck a £22 tip on it! There was no mention of the £25 booking fee either.

Really! 👀

At this point we were desperate to leave.

We got the service charge (tip) knocked off - paid the rest under massive protest and disbelief and got the hell out of there!

We went straight to Alberts Schloss (which is amazing!) and had several pints of top notch beers and several shots of Schnapps which were very nice indeed. Money well spent 👍🏼

Las Igunanas - never again - five thumbs...

We had booked a brunch here weeks in advanced for a 50th birthday with a group of 11. We got there and they said they had cancelled the booking the night before but did not let us know, which is absolutely ridiculous. We had to show them proof of booking and proof of emailing over our first drinks and food as we were a big group. The manager couldn’t understand what had gone wrong or why it had been cancelled without us being notified and so we had to wait 20-40 minutes to be seated. They did however give us a complimentary glass of prosecco.

When we were eventually seated, we were sat pushed up in the corner near where they make the food. I am aware as a big group it may have been hard to seat us however we were pushed in such a tight corner it was difficult for us to even pull the chair out.

The brunch itself was ridiculous. Drinks came and we could not taste any alcohol in them, they had to be returned. It took ages for the new ones to come and they were still like pop. The food was the only redeeming thing about the place and it was nothing to shout home about. I had a grilled chicken burger, chips and onion rings, which were nice but we could’ve done to McDonald’s and got the same. By the end of it we had only received 3 drinks in the 2 hour brunch slot! This is ridiculous! We complained to the manager to which he responded “The worst thing I could have done was seat you guys.” This is extremely rude. After discussions back and forth he eventually took some money off the bill so instead of paying £40 for the brunch we paid £35 each. This is still in my opinion an absolutely absurd price to pay for a burger and 3 drinks.

We will not be returning again and should’ve gone to a slug and lettuce brunch instead. Do not waste your money here. Terrible...

AVOID the so called bottomless brunch, it's appalling!!! £35 for the plate of food pictured and 5 watered down cocktails. That's what constitutes a 2 hour bottomless brunch at this 'restaurant', which is pretty appalling. It was such a disappointment for my daughters 18 birthday meal and an all round bizarre experience. Our party of 12 only had 4 drinks each, served during the actual 2 hour bottomless brunch, and the 5th drink came 30 mins after we'd ordered it (we ordered it 20 mins before the 2 hours ended), as it just sat on the bar, waiting to be served...there's lots of waiting at this restaurant. Cocktails were very watery (tasted of fruit juice and soda water) and our itemised bill was doctored. The 4 glasses + a bottle + 4 glasses of proseco = 14 glasses, are down as 78 glasses on the bill, which is very odd, and we left sober as we'd been clearly been served mocktails for 2 hours. People moved onto Corona and prosecco because the cocktails are so bad here. We went, as a pre booked group of 12 people for a bottomless brunch £35 pound per head. The food you get is a low end starter type dish and we sat for long periods with bottomless, empty glasses, trying to get another drink. With 20 mins of our two hours left we ordered one last drink, which took 30 minutes to arrive and we only got that because I refused to pay the bill until we got that drink each. They then took my bill away and added a 40 pound service charge. I always pay 10% tip, so they’d have got that anyway. Poor effort, and place I’d avoid. Possibly the most disappointing £420 bill plus £40 service charge I’ve ever paid. We've emailed the restaurant to complain and have so far been completely ignored, which sums up our terrible Las...