Franky & Bennys

After some shopping yesterday afternoon my friend and I decided to grab a bite. i’d never eaten here before and had heard mixed reviews but still decided to try it out. Some of the food on the menu looked quite heavy and I wasn’t overly hungry but thankfully they have a great salad selection. I had the cajun chicken citrus salad (£10.25) — which was heavenly. It was crisp, fresh and zingy! My friend ordered the penne arrabiata (£5.95) with a side salad and i think she enjoyed it because she ate every last bite! The service was great, we were served by a couple of different people but each person was really bubbly and friendly.

Mediocre junk food that is grossly overpriced & drowning in salt. SO unhealthy. Bad service but the worse part was the absolutely vile interior. It was a mistake dining here. Highly recommend avoiding

Decided to give this place another go after having good experiences in the past and thought our last time would of been a one off.
So two of us went here for a meal and when we got there was told there would a 20 minute wait which I thought was reasonable as the other places were busy due to it being a weekend so we sat at the bar and and waited about 40 minutes later we were approached and were told that they had been buzzing our buzzer and that our one must of been faulty.
We were shown to our seats and they took our drink order and a long time later our drinks arrived this turned out to be the theme of our visit and between courses had to wait quite a while. The food was of normal standard but the service was terrible.
We were in there for 2 and a half hours maybe more and I could not wait to leave. They did not even say sorry for the delay.

For those who have seen the movie, Big Night, it was a good movie about a quiet authentic Italian restaurant with amazing food competing against a loud trendy popular restaurant with crap food. This place was the latter.
My wife and I dined here on a Saturday evening and our experience started out well. Made a reservation for 2, handed a buzzer and was told the wait would be 20mins. That was the good part. Having step off a transatlantic flight, I was up for anything. Well 20 mins. became 40 mins., 40 mins. became 1 hour so we decided to wait at the crowded bar. We should have known something about this place when we ordered a margarita and the bartender had to resort to a book to know how to make one. Uhhhhh…
The mood was slightly broken when another patron asked for a moe-​jit-​toe. We could not help but laugh at this point.
Finally we were seated about an hour and a half since making the reservation… only to be met by a rude waitress… great. All-​in-​all, to make a longer story short, the food was crap. At this point, I wish we went to Mickey D’s instead
I don’t think we’ll be back.