Lucky People of Dublin & Cork tell me....

Keane2baMused · 02-08-2016 10:17PM

Expensive bland crap.

I would choose KFC over it if I had to pick, and not for the cost.

02-08-2016 10:24PM

They do a nice quinoa salad. I get it with halloumi. Only been there twice. Don't eat chicken. Luckily I live in Cork and there are lots of other lovely restaurants!

Wigglepuppy · 02-08-2016 10:29PM

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Not in any nandos I've been in! Good try caller.

Fair enough! I was only there once and it was a few years ago. I'm sure my chicken was plain though and the spice was in the sauce I had on the side? It was not unpleasant tasting but very run-of-the-mill - the popularity and price had me expecting something more delectable. I realised this as I was buying it though, and could have left, which we didn't.

Won't be returning though.

fryup · 12-09-2016 01:05PM

well i had my first Nando's experience yesterday in Dun Laoghaire,

had two peices of boned chicken with Lemon & Herb Peri Peri Sauce, mashed spuds and minted peas and a glass of milk..................and............i liked it, very tasty and satisfying, clean plate

the prices are a tad high i give you that, and the soft drinks are ridiculously over-priced...but overall i liked the food and the decor, def go again

what should i order the next time?

LorMal · 12-09-2016 02:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

VASTLY overrated.

The chicken is grand if overpriced. The sides like mashed potato are actually nearly worth getting just to laugh at.

We are all speaking American now. I could care less.

ScumLord · 12-09-2016 03:02PM

I've gone a handful of time because friends like it. Don't get the appeal. The most basic food possible with sauce on it. I avoid chicken anyway, I'll only buy free range now, battery hens look diseased at the best of times I'm not eating those feckin things.

Last time I was there was in Gatwick airport, they had some steak thing on the menu, it was something like £16 so I was expecting something good. They arrive down with a small little strip of steak in between two bits of stupid looking bread. That was it. I'll never ever go back. It's a popularised restaurant thats making obscene profits off fast food snobs.

Mint Sauce · 12-09-2016 03:07PM

Branches in Belfast and Derry as well OP.

HensVassal · 12-09-2016 04:13PM

It's crap. Bland, mediocre crap.

If I want chicken, I'll either go to the junk end of the spectrum when I'm drunk and bring home a big bucket of garbage from KFC or Hillbilly's and stuff my fat, pissed face with the greasy, salty, deep friend ambrosia while watching a late movie (and of course bitterly regret it the next day).....or go for chicken in a curry, like a madras or biryani. The Nando's/Crackbird formula is just sh1t and piri-piri is the most overrated marinade/sauce on the planet.

Pity there don't seem to be Carribean or Creole chicken joints in Ireland like they have in the UK. These are the people who know how to make chicken. Jerk chicken, Creole chicken, southern fried.....drool!!!!

Den_M · 12-09-2016 04:27PM

Such unnecessarily strong reactions from people on this thread...'crap', 'sh1t'...etc. Dunno what's the matter with people to be so negative in what they say and how they say it. Nandos is grand, perhaps overpriced for what you get which essentially is fancy chicken and chips, but far too many people love the place for it to be 'sh1t'...

blue note · 12-09-2016 04:28PM

From reading this thread I don't know how they're still in business. All of boards seem to have more refined pallets than nandos plebs. Nandos must may attract foodie philistines only.

ScumLord · 12-09-2016 04:34PM

Den_M wrote: »

perhaps overpriced for what you get which essentially is fancy chicken and chips,

But it's not fancy at all. It's the most basic attempt at making food that there is. Cook some chicken in the oven and let the customers pour sauce over it.

I just don't get what people see in it. People rave on about it and every time I've gone there it's been passable UK style chain restaurant. I wouldn't say it's awful but it's nothing far past mediocre.

MistyCheese · 12-09-2016 04:34PM

Yeah, I can't really afford a restaurant with a theme.

ZeroThreat · 13-09-2016 04:37PM

ScumLord wrote: »

But it's not fancy at all. It's the most basic attempt at making food that there is. Cook some chicken in the oven and let the customers pour sauce over it.

I just don't get what people see in it. People rave on about it and every time I've gone there it's been passable UK style chain restaurant. I wouldn't say it's awful but it's nothing far past mediocre.

any place where you can eat decent mexican or tex/mex food in Dublin?

ScumLord · 13-09-2016 04:42PM

ZeroThreat wrote: »

any place where you can eat decent mexican or tex/mex food in Dublin?

Wouldn't know, I don't live in Dublin. I don't think I've ever eaten Mexican food in Ireland, I've only had it over in the UK.

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