Joanne Lee's Qype profile

Found this in the Leeds Dining out guide and wanted something out of city centre. Very nice restaurant, was very homely inside. We booked our table for 7.30 and was sat down in the bar area. We waited for 10 minutes and no one asked us for drinks order or gave us a food menu to look at whilst we waited for our friends. Had to go up to the bar myself to ask and order some drinks. When my friends did arrive, they took their drink orders along with the food orders, a bit weird but they must have let us sat in the bar area for a further 15mins before we got seated. As we got seated, I thought it was because it was busy but it wasn't. Anyway portions were of adequate size and I chose the scallops on the specials board with black pudding, got 3 scallops (very nice) and 3 triangular pieces of black pudding - normally don't like black pudding but it was nice. I chose the lamb for main, and the crust was really nice, big fondont potato, regrettably we ordered 2 side dishes of chips before the 4 of us, but wish we didn't order any as we were so full. Very tender lam with a nice jus. Would definitely go back, service got better towards end of night. Would definitely recommend!

We went here last Tuesday with some close friends. I had booked it a fortnight earlier and mentioned it was to celebrate my Brother's birthday and it would be a party of 6. I had heard very good things about this place and that the price was reasonable. The menu had changed since I last looked at it and we were really impressed with the range. The interior of Sam's Chop House is second to none, very classy, high ceilings. I ordered the French Onion Soup and was really looking forward to it, but when they brought it over, the cheese on bread was already on top of the soup making it really soggy and I thought it was overly sweet. I would have preferred my bread on the side or just floating on top but not 'dunked'. For my main I opted for the confit of lamb and the portion was more than adequate. I had trouble finishing it, the potatoes were lovely and went well with the dish. The only gripe I have was the quaility of service was not very good, the waiters were not very attentive and they must have forgotten about my Brother's 'Birthday' as they did not acknowlede it at any time of the meal. We decided to have dessert elsewhere because the service was appalling although beware they add a 10% service charge as standard. The food was very good and a good price but service let it down.

Came here on a Saturday evening. Went especially for the Paella, but unfortunately it wasn’t on the menu. Rather disappointing, instead I ordered the Zim Zim which was nice. Me and my boyfriend had 3 tapas and starters and I couldn’t finish my main in the end. Wrote to the company complaining about the Paella on the menu and got a prompt response. The operations manager even took the time out to call me to find out more about my dissatisfaction. It was all handled very well and he even sent me 20 pounds in gift vouchers so I could try the Paella next time. My ohter concern was, the music was rather loud, we had to talk above each other and the place was very stuffy!

The menu offers an array of Japanese foods. We went on the Wednesday just gone. It wasn’t very busy but the ambiance of the restaurant was very good. On the bottom floor there is a mini store where you can buy sushi ingredients, Japanese snacks and drinks as well as tea sets. I must say, some of the ingredients were over-priced, can definitely find it cheaper in a Chinese supermarket. We opted for the 9.50 sushi buffet. It’s not exactly a buffet. You can have up to 8 pieces of sushi, they should bring you 4, but they brought us 6 each (4 nigiri rolls and 2 california rolls) It also came with a standard bowl of miso soup, chicken karage (fried chicken) and 6 gyoza (fried dumplings). So far, so good, till we got to the main part of lunch, which consisted of rice, thin udon noodles, 8 generously sized teriyaki chicken with a small pork cutlet sliced into 4, with curry carelessly placed over. It was poorly presented, and it did not taste good. The ton katsu curry was 'ok’ and the teriyaki chicken was overly dry. I would definitely go back for the sushi but not for anything else.

The place is a bit rundown but the food is nic eenough and cheap too! Quite big portions, don’t go for the seafood pancake as it didn’t taste right! Overall, if there’s chinese people in this place, it can’t be bad!

This is defnitely for the big eaters. There’s plenty of choice from thai to chinese to indian and italian! The lunch buffet is only a fraction of the menu!

Adult Buffet starts from 12.95+

Me and my 2 friends came here for lunch one time and spent a mighty 80 pounds in one sitting, ordering just a dish each. This is very over-priced and there are limited choices on the menu. The portions are very small, aside from that, I cannot fault the taste!