Review of Adega - Head Office

RATED SO SAD, so sad indeed!! After being a loyal customer since Adega Bryanston's inception at the Bryanston Shopping Centre, watching waiters grow into managers, it was such a sad day yesterday when my husband decided he felt like Adega's famous prawns. Boy were we in for a shock - not only were the prawns tasteless but resembled the size of cockroaches. NO authentic Portuguese food, clearly a case of the wrong people now running a once favourite and successful restaurant! The variety reduced to wanting and amongst the sad dishes was spaghetti bolognese where one needed a microscope to find the mince meat, the once available authentic Portuguese dishes where nowhere to be found. Everything on the table was blatantly reduced to minimal product: the sushi was more rice than anything resembling sushi, bad quality chips not only cold but old oil which gave it it's ranchit taste - beyond disgusting!! A price increase of 30%, from R165 per head to R205 per head. An Indian lady walked around creating such an unpleasant atmosphere which is so common in textile shops where they follow you around in case you steal something.....beyond disgusting! The dessert table and the desserts on offer where always presented with the most tantalising garnishing of fruit in season, a master piece one wanted to photograph and not spoil by cutting into it - that too was so sad: the dessert dishes also so wanting, were accompanied with the smallest spoon which resulted in the creme caramel being broken, impossible to serve! SO SAD....how can you spoil the once famous authentic name, ADEGA Head office? After so many fond memories over the years with family and friends, we have to write Adega Bryanston off as such an unpleasant experience, food beyond acceptable levels, and a hefty price increase which we don't have a problem paying, BUT paying for the quality and authenticity Adega Bryanston once was - not an excuse of skimping on quality and taste and variety!! SO SAD and good bye Adega!