wagamama sheffield centertainment — Restaurant in Sheffield

Over the Christmas break, we popped to Valley Centertainment, Sheffield, for some lunch after shopping and decided on Wagamama, an Asian-food franchise, inspired by the flavours of Japan🥢

It was Ben’s first time to Wagamama and actually only my second time. For a chain brand, we thoroughly enjoyed the food and experience here, and I can see why a lot of people go time and time again. I mean fresh “noods”, who doesn’t enjoy them? We thought it was a little on the pricey side for lunch, but it was Christmas, so we were treating ourselves!

We enjoyed;

beef + kimchee gyoza – these gyozas and the sauce they come with were exceptional. As an introductory offer to the Soul Club App, we got them for free (Usually £8) chicken teriyaki soba – a lovely dish with crunchy veggies and plenty of crispy chicken. Not gonna lie, I put the rest of the gyoza dipping sauce on top – scrumptious! (£15.50) pad thai chicken+prawn – you can’t go wrong with this classic dish. SO GOOD (£15) I thought the cans of coke at £3.50 were a bit expensive, though…

What’s your go to Wagamama’s dish?

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💷 Spend:£20 – £30pp ⏰ 11am – 10pm daily 🚗 Parking info: Free parking at Centertainment 📦🚚...

Ok full disclosure, I'm bias AF. Wagamama is and has always been my favourite 'chain' restaurant, since before it was a chain back in London in the late 90s. It doesn't matter which Waga' restaurant I've been to (a lot) it's consistently great you always know what you're going to get. I've been to this one at centertainment a good few times now and the food and service has been even better than normal, although it never seems to get too busy here which may contribute to that. My only complaint could be that there isn't enough limited edition or guest dishes to mix things up a little, there always used to be something new to try but not so much lately. Oh, and bring back the budda bottles of beer, cans just aren't the same. If you haven't been before, I highly recommend getting the ramen (basically noodles in soup but these are no supernoodles), chilli steak is THE ONE but plenty others to choose from if beef ain't your thing. Also, get the edemame to nibble on as the other food gets prepared (pop the peas out don't eat the shoots). EVERY starter is damn tasty so just...

3☆ because the food was average. It didn't stand out. Our starters and food were brought out at different times, which meant I had my starter first while the other 2 diners had nothing. Their meals came out, while I had a 5 minute or more wait for mine. Their starters came out halfway through eating their main meal...

Some flavours were there, for example, in the Korean beef steam buns. But everything else was a letdown. I had the chicken ramen, and it was bland. The chicken tasted like it was boiled in water. It lacked flavour, which no amount of soy sauce could help.

The others had the chicken gyoza ramen. The paste was so hot that one person could not eat it. I tried it, and the heat was so overpowering that you couldn't taste anything else. The bok choi wasn't even blanched it was raw and tasted as such.

For the price paid, it was a very disappointing experience. Not value for money.

Customer service was good, but it couldn't make up for the disappointing...