East Northamptonshire
The White Swan

The White Swan

22 Main Street, PE8 5EB, East Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Sushi • Pizza • Mexican • European


"a difficult review when the restaurant tried to provide the service that I am sure they wanted. a busy Saturday midday in December, all the tables were tightly packed, there were no ceiling ventilation or were all windows open to provide covid ventilation protection. the menu is large with a lot of choice. we went for a selection of starters to share under the family. most were very small dishes, the flower flowers bites consisted only small floccules. I think that this was too expensive for everyone. for the net I divided half a steak/ale cake and crispy chili bark. the bark in the torte was chewing and blande, the chips rode in a customs of their life, and the muddy peas were simply crushed, cultivated garden. the chili beef on the other side was sensational, fully spiced, steaming hot and loads of it, with rice and crack. the dishes could no longer differ in quality and taste. similar mixed results were reported from the rest of the table. I appreciate that covid has hit local food companies hard and they are still trying to get their pre-pandemic service. there were many guests who were fed and the kitchen struggled to supply consistency; our main dishes were delivered in intervals, so we did not eat together and it took to put the net on the table. as mentioned it was brushed, but a service fee was added to the bill. I think this is a bad service, even if one takes into account the difficulties of the covid. I hope that this feedback will be taken and traded so that we can see an improvement when we visit next."

Deb's Fish

Deb's Fish

171 Wellingborough Road, NN10 9SZ, East Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Fish • Desserts • Fast Food • Vegetarian


"What an experience with Deb's Fish Bar!! I have had previous orders from here that have gone wrong but haven’t written anything on Social media about them before as in truth even though there has been some decidedly bad meals , A horrendous excuse for a waffle which look like a pancake run over by a car tyre!! Wrong orders four times!! Completely inedible chips which have basically been so covered in Grease and soggy it was impossible to eat them…So okay we didn’t order chips from there anymore!! Even a piece of blue plastic inside the batter around the fish we didn’t make a big song and dance about!!! We simply let them know and were told it was from the packaging!! Well thank God for that because if I’m going to choke on something when I eat my dinner it’s good to know it’s just from the packaging!! I do actually have photos of all of these things because I tend to photograph things when something makes me laugh when I’m really gobsmacked by the state of it!! But overall,they’ve been friendly and the one thing that has always been good was the fish!! On two occasions that wasn’t the case and it was virtually all batter with greasy fish inside making it almost in edible, Photos of which I sent them so that they knew what had gone wrong along with a message explaining that I wasn’t being horrible I was just letting them know, the manager sent me a lovely message back in return telling me I could just have 20% off my next order which I thought was very kind!! HOWEVER!! I ordered from them tonight on UberEats because I had a code and scheduled the order for between 6..30 and 6.45 knowing that this would give us time to eat before we had to get on and do things. At 6:45 the order wasn’t here so I called the shop and was told they were incredibly busy but the order has gone out I would be here by 7 pm. 710 still no order! 7.20 still no order so called again and now told the order has been delivered according to the driver!! Which of course it hasn’t been!! So they would refund my order or create a new one? Obviously that late at night I wasn’t going to say yes please create a new order knowing that it then wouldn’t be arriving until even later still!   We don’t place massive orders even though we order quite a lot food from them between us quite a few of those orders have not been great, but because they put sausages in for the dogs and whatnot and the fish ordinarily has been good we have been continuing to use them!! Unbelievably The woman on the phone proceeded to tell me they will not take any further orders from me because they can’t fulfil our needs!! When have you ever heard of any food place banning you from ordering from them as a result of their f@ck ups?????!!!!!! Very disappointed to say the least totally gobsmacked by the mentality . Basically if you’re going to order from there be prepared to accept the wrong orders without saying anything, wait for over an hour for your food to maybe or maybe not arrive, May or may not be edible when it arrives or it may not arrive at all even though they will tell you that it has!! I have never gone out of the way to shame them or create any difficulty for them publicly, I have sent them photographs of the disgusting food that wasn’t just so that they could see for themselves what they had sent out and I’m not going to post those pictures here today because that isn’t what this post is about. I think it’s safe to say that the phrase good customer service has gone out of the window with these people which I would not have said yesterday after having received such a lovely message from the owner. Absolutely appalling behaviour from a business that I would have recommended to people but certainly would not again!  To add insult to injury believe it or not I just had one of the delivery drivers come to the door and try to insist that I pay for food that never actually got delivered to me this evening!!! Apparently the delivery driver went back with a ticket telling them she had delivered it to me i’m so now they thought I was lying on top of everything else!!!! You Actually couldn’t make this up!!!!!"