Wolfes — Restaurant in Northern Ireland

Poor compared to other places in the area. Came in tonight with my partner for dinner, long waiting times and a struggle to get seated. Staff - Staff seemed unmotivated after Christmas probably from working in hospitality. As a waiter myself I’m understanding of the work load there is on the weeks coming up to Christmas and the 1-2 weeks after Christmas. Although this doesn’t excuse staff standing chatting whilst me and my partner were waiting 45 minutes to be sat. Clear, reset and table turnover was shocking. Although one waiter in particular with dark hair was very friendly and helpful with options. Drinks - a plentiful drinks menu alongside alcohol free ciders and beers paired with spirits, soft drinks and alcopops allowing for plenty of options for anyone looking to have a drink during their meal. Food - I had the ribs to start and the 10oz medium to well sirloin to finish off tied alongside pulled pork fries and cheesy garlic bread which I shared with my partner. The ribs were perfect, very tender and a well sized portion for a starter and especially for the price. Starters took 20 mins to come out although we were seen to pretty quick from the moment we sat down and the drinks came out relatively early which was when our order was taken. Then a 15 minute wait between starters being cleared and the mains being places which is pretty quick for a medium well sirloin. The sirloin was over cooked, it was closer to being well done unfortunately but it wasn’t tough and was still really good, onion rings weren’t crisp and more soft than anything, the peppercorn sauce was the best I’ve had so far. The garlic bread was also quite soft but I wouldn’t critique that as I just prefer my breads to be crispier. Overall I don’t think I would return unless there was a revamp in motivation and staff or a new menu was introduced, I understand the chefs might be under pressure with the sheer size of the menu and the amount of options there are. Also nothing but an apology was offered after waiting an hour to be seated, not even a first round of drinks for two people, not really expected though. After writing this review I change my rating from...

Am a regular at Wolf's in dundonald.

In between 2 and 4 times a month.

The most common thing I would get would be the tex mex stack, last time we were in I passed comment on how the portion size was a lot smaller but it was still tasty.

Last Wednesday was actually our 13th anniversary, and unable to get a childminder, we ended up going to the ever family friendly Wolfes.

This time our food came and my wife's food was bland and boring and my tex mex stack was at least half of normal size. The chicken strips were tiny and not the usual, they looked like they had been made from frozen chicken strips from makro. The chicken was really dry, even to look at, you could tell.

We also got 4 large soft drinks. Even the kids pointed that the glasses were rammed with ice. One my oldest son had finished his drink he asked for another. So we asked for one for another large soft drink with no ice this time. To show him the difference the ice made, we poured from the full glass into his other glass that had the remaining ice in it, it only took a fraction of the full glass to fill the one full glass to the top, in fact we filled the ice glass three time to the neck from the glass with no ice in it.

Shocking

Totally different standards to normal. Clearly making cut backs.

Service was slow, cutlery dumped at the end of the table in a pile, food was way off par and trying to con people with the amount of ice in the drinks was taking the biscuit.

Be giving wolfes a bye ball...

A big party of us went on Sunday for my dad's birthday. We all specifically went for the Sunday dinners which we had got previously on the 2 for £24 including a drink and we were given the menu which still advertised the offer. When the waiter came to take the order he told us there was no Turkey left. We said it was no problem, we would have the ham. He went away and came back to tell us that we couldn't have the offer of 2 meals for £24 as the menu would be changing in a couple of days and they wouldn't be doing it anymore. We should have been told when we were seated and given menus that there was no Turkey and also that there was no 2 for £24, even though it is still advertised on the menus as by the time we were told this we had drinks and could not leave to go elsewhere. Not happy at all as my Granda was treating us all and this cost him a lot more than it would have if we had got the offer. Especially when the offer was still being advertised. Also, none of us actually wanted the normal food we had to order as we all wanted a Sunday dinner and would've gone elsewhere to get it had we known we couldn't get one here. The family would have gone here quite regularly but definitely won't be back after that and will take our business elsewhere in...