Barbican Pasta Bar Plymouth

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Italian in Plymouth
40 Southside Street , Plymouth, PL1 2LE
+44 (0) 1752 671299

Barbican Pasta Bar Plymouth is an Italian restaurant in Plymouth. They are known for offering Italian dishes . Barbican Pasta Bar Italian restaurant reviews can be added using the form below.

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Barbican Pasta Bar Plymouth Reviews

Jonathan W.

1 reviews

Rude & Unplesent - Well what can I say, My wife and a few friends went out for a nice lunch. what we got was a unpleasant experience, due to by business dealings I have a very wide experience of eating places and it has been a long time since I had one as poor as this. Upon our arrival we were promptly told to wait outside (in the pouring rain) and wait. When we finally get to a table. We sit down and things appear to get better I catch up with my friends and we order drinks, as we were all driving we asked for Coke, a very simple drink. What we got was flat brown stuff that did not taste of coke at all and was manly a lemon taste. the half pint glasses are more than half full of ice so that I would fairly guess that the glass could not of contained no more than a quarter of coke and the rest was water . We thought nothing of this, the place was busy after all and it is only coke. However we placed our orders and we waited and waited and waited. After 35 minutes my wife politely asked the waiter what was going on. A few minutes more and the manager comes over a in front of us all tell my wife off for being impatient and argues that my wife’s watch must be wrong as she ( the manager ) said that we have not been waiting long.
After this we thought that we should just get up and leave, however being honest we did not want to leave without paying, and since we finally had out starters we would stay. My friend Rupert who is a Chef himself was by this time getting tired of things suddenly realised that he was running out of time on his car for the car park and had to dash off. The main course turned up, instead of the waiter taking it back to keep it warm he just left it there and when we tried to get attention we were ignored. When Rupert returned his food was cold and had the consistency of rubber.
The main course for the rest of us was not bad, the only point that I would add is that the parmesan cheese that I was offered to put on my pasta was in a shake tin and when I opened this to see how must was inside, I found some unknown green things inside the tin along with what I thought must be black pepper.
Over all I will give my eating experience a 4 out of 10 and my customer service experience a 0 out of 10, there is no excuse for rudeness and especially from the manager, The barbican pasta bar is not worth going to because you will wait long periods of time receive poor drinks and then receive rude comments from the management, this is not the way to do business and I hope that some will pay attention to this review and locate a better standard of restaurant. Plymouth has a lot to offer and you can do much better than the Barbican Pasta Bar
12-07-09

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Amber Rose K.

2 reviews

Nice atmosphere - I have visited the Barbican Pasta Bar a few times now, as part of both small and large groups. The staff are welcoming and the atmosphere is warm. The specials are worth a look. Prices moderate, food quality very good. 09-08-08

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