"Simply Thai" from the F word
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What a joke.
I have now been trying to book a table at this place for over a week. Phone either rings off no reply, or is engaged. I must have made around 100 phonecalls, all to the engaged tone. It makes no sense.
Last night I got through to an answerphone saying if you want to book a table phone between 4pm and 6pm today. So I did. Permanantly engaged. Try it for yourself for good measure - 0208 943 9747.
What sort of s
t is this? How crap is it? What sort of business sense is it? It's not even a well known or michelin star place, just a local place thats been on TV FFS. I intend to go there and book a table in person just down to my frustration with it all.
This is no longer about the food, but the sole challenge of "booking a table for dinner" which seems impossible at the moment. Ridiculous.
I have now been trying to book a table at this place for over a week. Phone either rings off no reply, or is engaged. I must have made around 100 phonecalls, all to the engaged tone. It makes no sense.
Last night I got through to an answerphone saying if you want to book a table phone between 4pm and 6pm today. So I did. Permanantly engaged. Try it for yourself for good measure - 0208 943 9747.
What sort of s
t is this? How crap is it? What sort of business sense is it? It's not even a well known or michelin star place, just a local place thats been on TV FFS. I intend to go there and book a table in person just down to my frustration with it all. This is no longer about the food, but the sole challenge of "booking a table for dinner" which seems impossible at the moment. Ridiculous.
Im going in there tonight. I might just rant and rave rather than book a table. So annoying.
As for why, I had logically thought it through. It might be a local restauarant shown on TV recently but the majority people booking will still be in a fairly close radius, probably would have booked by now, and will have been in the same position as me getting fed up with not getting through.
The apparent difficulty in getting through is not justified. It didnt even win the F word comp - so it's probably st!
As for why, I had logically thought it through. It might be a local restauarant shown on TV recently but the majority people booking will still be in a fairly close radius, probably would have booked by now, and will have been in the same position as me getting fed up with not getting through.
The apparent difficulty in getting through is not justified. It didnt even win the F word comp - so it's probably s
t!Dizeee said:
Im going in there tonight. I might just rant and rave rather than book a table. So annoying.
As for why, I had logically thought it through. It might be a local restauarant shown on TV recently but the majority people booking will still be in a fairly close radius, probably would have booked by now, and will have been in the same position as me getting fed up with not getting through.
The apparent difficulty in getting through is not justified. It didnt even win the F word comp - so it's probably st!
I live a couple of hundred yards away, and I've been there (and the previous place that the owner had) lots of times.As for why, I had logically thought it through. It might be a local restauarant shown on TV recently but the majority people booking will still be in a fairly close radius, probably would have booked by now, and will have been in the same position as me getting fed up with not getting through.
The apparent difficulty in getting through is not justified. It didnt even win the F word comp - so it's probably s
t!No, it's not s
t. Or at least it wasn't before it was on the telly. However, service in there was always problematical - well not the service as such but the wait for food. The lady owner (who is a bit frightening) likes to cook everything herself, so when the place gets busy, the waits can be incredibly long.I can only imagine that things have got worse since she became famous. Up until recently you could just walk in and you would be guaranteed a choice of tables. I've stopped ordering takeaways from there too because the waits got silly, and I was ending up getting blootered in the local pub whilst waiting for the order to be completed.
Umm their phone's probably ringing off the hook since it was on TV, calm down dear. When the Little Chef in Popham got it's 5 minutes of fame you had to queue to get in the door for weeks, it's in a god foresaken place on the M3. So people drove down the M3 for miles, to the middle of fking nowhere to go to a Little Chef!
king nowhere to go to a Little Chef!Edited by hyperblue on Thursday 21st January 23:11
What a palava.
Turned up and joined a small gaggle squeezed in by the front door, which would not open due to the amount of people waiting...not to be seated or served, but just to actually be acknowledged.
After around 15 minutes I managed to get one of the waitress' attention. This was not too difficult, seeing as I was causing most of the overcrowding stood there in full bike gear holding a helmet and gloves.
I was handed a tatty little notepad to put my details on and was told I would be called.
Shock horror, as I write, I just phoned them for a laugh - and I actually got through to that lady chef! "Bit late isnt it?" she said
I explained everything, and I have managed to squeeze in a table there for Valentines Day evening for 2.
After all that, I hope it's bloody worth it!
Turned up and joined a small gaggle squeezed in by the front door, which would not open due to the amount of people waiting...not to be seated or served, but just to actually be acknowledged.
After around 15 minutes I managed to get one of the waitress' attention. This was not too difficult, seeing as I was causing most of the overcrowding stood there in full bike gear holding a helmet and gloves.
I was handed a tatty little notepad to put my details on and was told I would be called.
Shock horror, as I write, I just phoned them for a laugh - and I actually got through to that lady chef! "Bit late isnt it?" she said
I explained everything, and I have managed to squeeze in a table there for Valentines Day evening for 2.After all that, I hope it's bloody worth it!
Oh I'm not worries about that, I figure most would have eaten by then and the place is only the size of a small deli anyway, so not many to serve.
The fact is the place is woefully undersized after it's little TV feature - around 8-10 table in the size of a small cafe won't work for long if they remain this busy.
The fact is the place is woefully undersized after it's little TV feature - around 8-10 table in the size of a small cafe won't work for long if they remain this busy.
Dizeee said:
Oh I'm not worries about that, I figure most would have eaten by then and the place is only the size of a small deli anyway, so not many to serve.
The fact is the place is woefully undersized after it's little TV feature - around 8-10 table in the size of a small cafe won't work for long if they remain this busy.
Well, like I said before they were on the telly, you could go in there most nights and there would be maybe three tables occupied. I suspect it was the takeaway side that kept them afloat.The fact is the place is woefully undersized after it's little TV feature - around 8-10 table in the size of a small cafe won't work for long if they remain this busy.
I'm not sure whether the mad Thai lady does this to make a profit anyway. The flash black Merc parked outside is hers, and she's always had one, even when the restaurant first opened up half a mile down the road (maybe 10 or 12 years ago?) in what was then a greasy spoon called 'Bonzo's' by day and the Thai by night. That had even fewer tables than the current place!
Colonial said:
How dare a small place do well and have the hide not to move other people out of the way so you can have meal.
I'm tempted to say that we're having a chat about a local restaurant for local people - there's nothing for you here....................., but you probably won't understand. 
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