Nando’s

What can I say, this is not my choice of location to eat, they do what they do, and the staff always look board out of their minds plus the food is never as good as it sounds on the menu. Meh! This is the sound you hear if you ask me about going here and if there is something else on option I will almost always go for it. So for me it is a NanDon’t option, unless you really are stuck and just hungry enough not to say no.

never been to nando’s for years but popped in today
before going to watch a movie.
i ordered veggie burger and chips (as they catter for none
meat eaters) and unlimited coke cola for
just under a tenner, not bad i suppose compared to other places.
burger was ok as it was a medium hot but chips could
of been done a bit bettar
services was good and food came within ten minutes
its ok for cheap and cheerful fast food mybe some of
the other food was bettar but would give it another try in
the not so distance future.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to a Nando’s, and when Mum told me she’d never been to one I figured this was the perfect time to get some Peri Peri chicken.
We had a fairly early dinner but the place was already pretty full. Didn’t take long to order and got some spicy nuts to tide us over — SO yummy! Sadly there was no sangria available, but the house rosé was quite nice.
For Mums’s first Nando’s we both had half a chicken with corn and spicy rice for me, garlic bread and corn for her. The food was really great, clean bones all round! My only niggle was that the sides were a little on the cold side.
All the staff were friendly and efficient, I will definitely be heading back soon — possibly even pick up take away on the way home now it’s super easy to order via the Nando’s app!

What can I say, I am a loyal nandos fan !
Nandos obviously is not haute cuisine, but to me, it is comfort food. I know what I’m going to get and I know it’s going to taste great.
Many people think it is just chicken, chicken or chicken, which. It is… But they also have a great selection of vegetarian food. A surprisingly large number of my veggie friends actually request going to nandos over anywhere else ! They have the standard veggie bean burger which I have been told is delicious, but also other items that aren’t full of meat — portobello mushrooms, halloumi and pineapple wraps/​burgers/​pittas, and they have a good range of salads that are a lot more exciting than your regular garden salad. They have plenty of veggie sides too such as corn on the cobs, spicy rice, ratatouille, macho peas, sweet potato and regular mash etc. Nandos also has a policy to keep it’s non-​meat containing products separate from meat containing ones. In a nutshell, this place is surprisingly great for veggies!
With regards to the chicken, I have tried pretty much everything on the menu. I love the wings, butterfly, quarter, half and whole chickens, and would recommend the pittas and burgers. The burgers come on a Portuguese roll instead of a burger bun, which is lovely and crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Much nicer than your average burger bun! They’ve just introduced chicken thighs onto the menu which I am yet to try!
I would not recommend the wraps so much, I feel you don’t get as much chicken (although you probably do.) and they just seem a little bland.
To me, nandos is all about the heat. I am a self proclaimed spice lover. If it’s hot, I want it! I can understand why people feel a little disheartened with nandos if they don’t love spice. They offer other flavours for those fancying a milder meal, mango and lime or ‘plain’ for example. When playing their new ‘wing roulette’ game, I’ve tried the mango and lime and I was not impressed. I couldn’t describe it in any other way than ‘meh’. It is a neither here nor there flavour, I wasn’t offended by it, but it was a little weird. I admit that if it wasn’t for the spicy combination of flavours and unlimited access to the extra hot sauce, then I may not be quite so much of a nandos fan!
Also, an insider tip — you can request the peri-​tamer marinade for your chicken, usually only used for the kids meals. It’s basically a touch of nandos sauce mixed with BBQ sauce which is then thrown on the grill and is delicious!
I have rated nandos 5 stars as over the years, I’ve never had a bad meal at any nandos I’ve been too. They are consistently great and their customer service is brilliant. It is a fair price and you have the chance to earn free chickens with their loyalty cards too.
All this talk of chicken has now left me craving another nandos!!!

Six of us ate in Nando’s a cheap end of the market chicken shack. You pay up front, fetch your own plates, sauces, drinks so staff contact is mostly at dirty plate clearing. Nando’s beats KFC hands down on any test except fat content. This one served halal meat. Unlike KFC its also good value for money: a whole cooked chicken, 2 sides + unlimited fizzless soft drinks is £20 for 2 people (their coffees are far to expensive). The tiny sweet potato mash portion is moreish & devine. The chips & corn cob (with butter) are just ok and industrially made. The chemically water injected chicken was small, unsurprisingly moist & perfectly cooked. It’s important to me to know my food. Nando’s chief fame claim is the African bird’s eye chili, a cultivar of capsicum frutescens, one of the sources of chilli pepper. It grows both domestically & wild. Also known as peri peri it’s a small member of the capsicum genus. It grows in Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, troubled South Sudan’s tropical forests and the southern half of Ethiopia. The Portuguese brought it to Goa. A perfect peri peri climate. Piri piri sauce is Portuguese in origin (used as a seasoning or marinade) and is especially prevalent in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique & South Africa. It is made from crushed chillies, onion, garlic, pepper, salt, citrus peel, lemon juice, bay leaves, paprika, pimiento, basil, oregano & tarragon. The chilli can hit 175,000 on Wilbur Scoville’s heat scale similar to scotch bonnet. If you find it hot please avoid the 2^nd hottest chilli on earth, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion; at 2 million on the scale. The hottest is now the Carolina Reaper. It’s an evil looking, gnarled, oily lumpy pod with a sucked-​up belly and a small tail reminiscent of wasp’s sting that screams ‘don’t eat me’. It’s 100 times hotter than a jalapeño looks like a scotch bonnet and when ripe it’s a luscious Crayola red, 2.2 million on the scale and developed by farmer Ed Currie. It’ll make him a millionaire. Currie’s family has a history of heart disease & cancer. He decided in college to find a way to avoid that fate. He began to research which populations had the lowest rates of those diseases. He found they had several things in common, but what stuck him was that they all ate hot chillies with every meal. So he started growing peppers for cancer research. It was by trying to grow a sweet pepper as chemotherapy patients often lose ability to taste anything but sweet that he accidentally created the world’s hottest. Currie hoped that patients could still taste a sweet pepper. They could. He knew he had something special as soon as he laid eyes on the Reaper, it was the first pepper he’d even seen with a sting. Bite the tiniest bit and you will hiccup, cough, and feel the pepper rip through your oesophagus, you’ll know exactly where it is every second as if it has a GPS device on it. Currie sells Carolina Reaper seeds & hot sauces, called «I Dare You Stupit» & «Purgatory sauce,» on his PuckerButt Pepper website. Only 20 years ago the Red Savina Habanero, then the world’s hottest pepper, only topped around half a million Scoville heat units. Then the Indian Bhut Jolokia, the first superhot pepper, was discovered by researchers, better known as the Ghost Pepper, the Bhut Jolokia more than doubled the Red Savina’s Scoville rating, and all this from my first and likely my last visit to a Nando’s.

Usually bustling and popular Nando’s restaurant, mostly filled with students. Definitely recommended for their signature chicken dishes. Comfortable seating available but you will usually be waiting for a table for any number of people due to its popularity and with it being right at the heart of studentland in Fallowfield.

«Have you been to Nandos before?»
Go up to the till, and that is invariably the first question you get. Why, I really don’t know. The chain has been in the UK for over a decade, has tons of advertorial content in papers like The Guardian devoted to it, and is a keen favourite of the young-​and-​trendy urban market, yet they still seem to have the notion that people are in need of help when ordering a meal.
This review, albeit based on the Parrs Wood branch, could apply to any other branch of Nandos given the generic nature of the place and its product.
Venture inside, and you’ll find a style of décor typical of your working to middle class South African steakhouse: thick wood tables and chairs to match, varnished a dull brown. Music tends to be a mix of Latin American booty shaking grooves and the occasional Luso-​African beat, while the walls have recently been displaying a series of paintings and artworks imported from South Africa. Overall, it provides for a warm and uplifting environment, even if, like most branches, the lighting is a bit on the dark side.
The chicken itself is fairly good and does match what you would get at your usual Portuguese churrasco. Obviously, market dynamics are different, so there are some changes in place. If you are in Portugal, the chicken will invariably be left in a bay leaf and white wine marinade, which isn’t possible locally since it isn’t a very halal thing to do. The size of the portions is also greater, as authentic Portuguese outlets use chickens slaughtered at a younger age, providing for less meat. The burgers tend to be filling, although the chicken fillets sometimes have a bit of a tougher texture than the grilled chickens
With respect to side dishes, the chips are usually good (especially if ordered with the peri salt, which is less mssy than the sauces); coleslaw tends to be acceptable; the new mashed peas are quite good, and the spicy rice is especially good when served warm, due to the piquant nature of the chopped peppers. I think Nandos are missing a trick however, since if they are going for odd extras like mash and ratatouille, then other potential sides to consider would be pap (Southern African maize meal) or creamed sweetcorn.
The bottomless drink option is a plus point, especially if you’re within young ones, while the booze selection is varied and good value for an eating place at this point in the market. There are several flavours of frozen yoghurt, but you can only get whatever comes out of the single dispenser, so you could be stuffed there.
In summary, Nandos is a good casual dining experience if you need to fill up and are with friends or family, but it isn’t going to be the place to take business parties or a potential hot date that you have been eyeing out.

Five good points about this Nando’s which differentiate it from the other Nando’s in town:
1) It is usually no problem to get a table here without queuing for hours.
2) The chicken served is Halal, which means I can meet my Muslim friend here (unlike the Nando’s in the Printworks).
3) When I’ve been with my boyfriend he has been impressed that they’ve asked him which part of the chicken he’d prefer, which they don’t do in every Nando’s (there is definitely potential for a breast joke here).
4) You can combine it with a visit to the cinema, bowling or laser quest without having to walk for more than a minute.
5) They let me have a veggie freebie on my loyalty card instead of the chicken I was supposed to receive.

The Parrswood branch of Nandos is very nice. I go there very often with friends and we really enjoy the food. Staff are very friendly at the place and greet you with a smile. As in all nandos i love the Perri peri sauce. The salads are great as well and the chicken exceptional. The place is just near the parrswood cinema and gaming centre. If you are planning a day out, you can have a couple of bowling games, watch a movie and go to nandos for some chicken dinner. Its easily accessible by car and bus as well, the bus stop is just at the parrswood centre. If you want to do some shopping before going home the big Tesco is just opposite the road.