Granny Annies Kitchen — Restaurant in Town Parks

5 of us were out for the "Bottomless Cocktail Brunch" [Saturday 29th June '24] which cost as advertised for GA £35 pp' which we thought ok we'll go for it! as we have tried this type of eating out before and it had gone really well ,This was our first visit to try Granny Annie's Belfast!.

But to our huge disappointment there was a timeframe of 90 Mins for you to be expected to finish a very large jug of cocktail of choice from a small menu!, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE springs to mind here!!! As when we were nearing the time limit none of us had finished the 1st jug, we were informed by a member of staff that we could have a refill once the drink was finished! [all good if you are a fish!].

However, when under pressure to consume in a given time it's off putting 'Granted, we were offered to take the remainder of our beverages to the outdoor seating provided but still we would not have been able to finish off a full jug each ,not a chance! Our table was originally booked from 2.30 to 4.30 , I would like to know, why book a 2 hour window if after 1 hour 15 min (not even 90 minutes they had spoken about!!) this was 3.35 we were told they need the table back by 3.45 !'

As far as value for money goes it is actually (or felt very extortionate pp for what you get !) and just to make things slightly more awkward the bar person(s) decided we could have more ice than the actual cocktail drinks!!! 🧊 we managed to shovel out most of it to try and obtain the flavour of the contents of the jug !

As a group of friends we WILL NOT be using Granny Annie's again and most certainly WILL NOT be recommending as a good venue for a girls day/night out in our experience!! May I suggest that GA review it's policy as it stands and provides it's customer's of the bottomless brunch proper cocktail glasses to enjoy instead of tumblers ! It would make a massive difference to the paying guests!

If other establishment's do the similar offer with proper recepticles to enjoy the occasion why can't GA ?

To justify the way GA works with their "Bottomless Brunch"i might suggest a reduction in price !! It felt very like a fast food outlet in our experience! As Shania Twain would famously sing .......You don't impress me much !!

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Start with the positive - great dancers and live performances. That's the end of the positives.

We visited on Easter weekend as a group of 10 for the bottomless brunch. Sat down on a sticky dirty table and told by a very rude and joyless waiter that we had a choice of only 4 cocktails to choose from - all of which were just vodka and peach schnapps based. So don't bother unless you can tolerate either of those. There was a bit of miscommunication with the waiter (Conchur) and when we asked him to clarify what he was explaining he was extremely rude. If it wasn't for the fact it was my friends birthday; we would have all gotten up and left, it was that bad and we felt that unwelcome. This continued throughout our visit. We tried to smile and be friendly but he just looked furious with us, for no reason. When we came to pay he wafted the card reader around the table but lost interest as another table asked him a question.

Cocktails arrived and instead of individual glasses we were all given a giant 2/3L jug of juice and ice. This wasn't explained to us in advance, otherwise we would have chosen multiple different cocktails - but we all had the sex on the beach. Drinking our way through this was a complete chore- as you can imagine... who would volunteer to drink 2-3L of weak orange juice!? We questioned the alcohol content of the jugs and were told they use only 4 shots in the entire jug! So x2 vodka 25ml and x2 peach schnapps!! In that amount of juice it probably makes the whole jug about 2% alcohol content. Which is obviously not the point of a bottomless brunch! We ordered a few more jugs for the table but they went to waste because we were so full and nautious from chugging through that much bland orange drink.

2 mocktail options for our pregnant friend as the bar refused to just take the alcohol out of their cocktails.

The food was atrocious, just take a look at the loaded nachos with chilli beef and cheese. It was more like a Lasagne dumped on top of nachos.

7/10 of our group suffered diarrhoea...

What an absolutely disgusting and horrific experience. We booked a table of 20 and preordered and paid a deposit . When we arrived only 16 places had been set so some of us had to eat our starters standing up with no cutlery, they managed to sort 4 more sittings by the time the main arrived. We found the serving staff quite rude and unfriendly so when it came to pay we decided to decline the offer of paying a “discretionary “ 10% service charge as we did not really receive any service as such at our table. May I mention that we did however tip the bar staff with every round. After refusing to pay the service charge we were then very rudely and bluntly told that we had to leave by a member of staff. The little weasel like thing of human origin who announced itself as the owner then proceeded to patronise and attempt to belittle the organiser of our party , a young 24 year old woman who tried unsuccessfully to explain why we had declined to pay the service charge which was our legal right , this resulted in her crying her eyes out outside under the sympathetic eyes of the security staff who more or less agreed that this thing, the owner,was an absolute TUESDAY!!! I feel so sorry for the staff having to work for this thing. Please do not choose this venue over the countless others that are soooo much better in Belfast. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! There are so many better offerings...