Unfortunately, I came here on a weekend. If only I'd read Angela's review, I would never have made this gravest of errors!
If there's one thing I hate, it is bad food. And I am a stickler for steak in particular. To me, a steak is not just a lump of meat. A steak is something that should be respected, revered and ultimately scoffed. When I cook a steak I make sure to let it marinate awhile in its own blood and some olive oil, with seasoning. Then I cook it, lovingly, in a pan as hot as the Sun, for the shortest time possible. Then I enjoy it. I respect the steak.
The chefs at Dexters do not respect the steak. Cue a gristly sirloin and a fatty sirloin turning up at our table greasy, lukewarm and criminally overcooked. I don't understand how soooo many places get it wrong. I order it bleu. I want it bleu. Bleu does not mean well-done. Bleu means basically barely-dead. In this case I tried to send back the wayyyy well-done steaks (about £12 each) and we were told that they would charge us for the steaks we had (which we'd not even had a bite of), and the replacements. We ate our original steaks but, needless to say, it turned to ash in my mouth. The chips were OK, but chips are chips.
The staff were rude and the service was literally appalling. We waited for about 15 minutes, having been told we'd "be seated in just a sec" on entering. Then we waited about 20 minutes before our drinks order was taken. When our drinks came, I'd been given a large wine instead of a small, and the boyf's coke was flat. Our waitress was unbelieveably rude, to the very end, when we said we weren't paying for the starters on the bill....because we didn't order starters!!! In the end we had to get the manager to come over, and even then I think he thought we were pulling a fast one!
Crappy steak is a crime, in my eyes. But I suppose if you fancy rude service, crappy steak, decent chips and being erroneously charged £10 more than you should, Dexter's is right up your street. read more