Frankie & Benny’s

2points to make here: awful food and awful service!
Went for evening meal here a few years ago and waited an hour for a pizza!
Went again a few months ago as my friend told me how nice it is and I had breakfast. Everything was awful, the waiter was so miserable and rude, the coffee was like warm and not good, the breakfast was badddd. The mushrooms must have been sat on heat for hours, they were black and tasted of pure grease! I had to spit it out.
Needless to say I would never ever go back there!

Poor service, poor quality food — very dry and tasteless. In my opinion, waste of time and money!

I’m not sure whether it was our dire dining experience in La Tasca last weekend that made last night’s trip to Frankie and Benny’s so much nicer than I’d anticipated or what, but no matter. Aside from a some slow service at the bar before we got seated, the whole evening was lovely.
This F&B’s has seen some press interest of late as it was the place where the ‘lady who told some people to be quiet during Harry Potter’ had bleach thrown at her. The restaurant was busy for a Sunday night though so I don’t think it’s affected trade at all.
We had olives (delicious — all the more tasty after last week’s La Tasca offerings!) between us, and then I had the tomato and basil soup with garlic dough balls in (mmm). Hot Steve had BBQ chicken wings, and they were tasty, tender and perfectly cooked. We may have got some funny looks for sniffing his smokey barbecue scented fingers throughout the rest of the evening but ah well, I reckon they were just jealous.
For my main I had roast beef, and Steve ordered the 8oz sirloin with tiger prawns. The lovely manageress came over and told us that she was really sorry, but they’d run out of prawns and also yorkshire puddings, would we like to order anything else instead or would we be ok with those dishes if she knocked some money off the bill? Bless. Again, unused to being consulted about these things (see La Tasca review, again), we were delighted and settled for the original dishes. And they were lovely! Massive, but tasty, with the beef and the steak both cooked juuuuust right.
We finished off with a sundae each. Sickly, gooey, and delicious. And all for under £40, thanks to some bill-​shaving by the manager. I liked it, and I’m not usually a fan of restaurant chains that crop up in leisure centre complexes. How snobby of me. I shall be coming back :)

I used to love this restaurant but recently when visiting I have found the food has gone downhill a little. The portions are smaller, and the food looks reheated and dry. All in all very disappointed.

Frankie and Bennys is a francise and you would expect the quality to be the same in all its outlets but I have found that this one is a cut above others I have tried.
This place is very family friendly and has a good childrens menu along side the standard menu available in all its outlets.
The staff here are always very friendly and very efficent. You never have to wait long for your food and the order is always well cooked — I have never had to send anything back here which I have had to do in other Frankie and Benny resturants I have been to.
The setting is also a bit nicer than the other in the Leeds area and it is always kept properly clean.