Isle of Wight Isle of Wight
Edulis

Edulis

Ventnor Botanical Garden, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Soup • Salads • Cheese • Ice Cream


"We booked Edulis for dinner on Friday evening. We were really looking forward to having a meal in the beautiful botanical gardens at weekends there is meant to be live music as well. Sadly, this did not turn out as expected. No live music not the fault of Edulis apparently the musician didn't turn up . The menu is very limited only 2 starters and 4 main courses to choose from. No dessert menu. The very young service team were keen and enthusiastic but spent most of their time papering over the cracks. A warm bottle of white wine was presented to us and only fixed using literally every once cube in the building upon this being pointed out why was the white wine not chilled? but the generally the food was not good at all. Main courses was just a choice of 4 curries. The rice was overcooked and watery and more to the point just American easy cook rice apparently not easy at all the stuff was diabolical Three of the four dishes the flavours were very bland. The chicken curry was clearly made using a well known brand of curry paste and a tin of tomatoes. We did mention this to the manager who was very good and took on board our comments and to be fair was very understanding about the whole situation. This could be such an amazing venue for an evening meal. Shame that the meal did not include locally grown produce. I hope that the management take on board our feedback and work towards making this the go to dinner venue in Ventnor at the weekend. This place could be fantastic if it tried."

The Fountain Inn

The Fountain Inn

High Street, PO31 7AW, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Pub • Pubs • Steak • British


"We have used this place since the 90s and we had our local friends group there for Christmas Dinner here 2022. My husband had a message pop up advertising £25 for 2 drink 2 meals and urged us to go down. I urged him to phone and check, was told 'yes I 'm sure that 's everything on the menue ' booked tonight (wed) and went down. Was taken to the outside (slightly outdated) dining room for the meal despite offering the bar area, reason we did that was because waitress was already muttering 'can 't do 6 things at once ' in front of us. We sat and when someone (not waitress) asked our order we ordered drinks and asked if everything was actually on the 2 for £25 deal (again) server said he would check. Server came back with a word document with what was/wasn 't on deal not massively impressive given the FB promo. We felt a bit embarrassed at this point as he 'd been gone a while. Ordered 2 beyond burgers checked fries were on the menu as all the word doc. said was 'beyond burger ' and previously its come with different chips due to no meat contamination. 45mins later food came (this is a 1/2 empty room I can 't call it a restaurant). Waitress literally dropped plates and shot off. I flagged her to ask for another drink, she left and we looked at burgers that looked quite greasy and had cheese on. Bearing in mind we have ordered and had these burgers before which are advertised as vegan we were surprised at cheese. Couldn 't check menu as we were just shown a hasty word doc. When the waitress returned with drinks we asked her what these burgers were, she came back saying meat; we asked to cancel order as expecting vegan. Male server came back v defensive and quite patronising 'they are meant to look like meat it 's veggie hence the cheese vegetarians can eat cheese '. Then went. At this point we were both embarrassed and upset; hadn 't been asked if we needed any extra sauces/sides. Had to wait a further 5 mins before someone else appeared to say we would just pay for drinks and leave food. £23 spent for drinks and poor service. As we left the restaurant the glass collector who took our plates was very verbal into the kitchen 'look they 've not touched it ' and the male server was seemingly angry when we went to the bar to pay for drinks. The barman that served was very polite which shows its not all lost but the service was poor and its put us off as locals which is a real shame."