(由 Google 翻译)在谷歌搜索了斯基普顿不错的印度餐厅后,我们预订了今晚在 Craven Kitchen 餐厅用餐,然后前往斯基普顿市中心附近的 Speakeasy 酒吧观看乐队表演。
我们在斯基普顿最喜欢的印度餐厅曾经是 Aagrah,它最初位于现在 Craven Kitchen 所在的同一栋建筑内,后来搬到了运河附近一栋更大的建筑内,几年前不幸关门了,迫使我们不得不去他们在 Shipley 的分店吃我们最喜欢的咖喱。
虽然我们按时到达了预订的下午 6:30,但我们不得不在小酒吧前的小等候区等了 10 分钟才等到我们的桌子,等待期间,酒吧没有提供任何饮料,也没有菜单可看。在我们坐下后,等了 10 分钟才有人给我们点菜,又等了 45 分钟才在晚上 7:35 上我们的开胃菜,我们催了两次,等了整整 1 小时 5 分钟才上桌!!这个只有 44 个座位的小餐厅在一个非常繁忙的周六晚上挤满了人,源源不断的顾客进来取外卖订单,但是,等待食物上桌的时间太长是完全不可接受的。
当食物终于端上来时,我们的开胃菜是混合肉类拼盘,味道鲜美,有大量的烤鸡肉块、鱼、羊排和烤肉串,配上美味的洋葱,放在一个滋滋作响的盘子里。在我们吃完开胃菜后,等了大约 15 分钟才给我们上主菜。我点了鸡肉 Zafrani(火辣,用月桂叶、肉桂绿辣椒、西红柿、葱、香菜和胡椒烹制),我的妻子点了 Nazrang Kamb Nazeez(鲜嫩多汁的羊肉条用少许辣椒、酸橙汁腌制,然后用月桂叶和胡椒中火慢炖),我们分享了一份白米饭和 3 个印度薄饼。食物非常美味,我们很享受这顿饭,但又不想等太久。我妻子点了三瓶虎牌啤酒,我点了半品脱翠鸟牌生啤,总价52.10英镑,还算合理。我们点饮料的时候要了一壶水,追了三次才终于拿到,下单后等了一个多小时!
餐厅前面有一些陡峭的台阶可以上去,餐厅里有一个小型男女洗手间,但没有残疾人洗手间,所以我不确定是否方便轮椅通行。餐厅外路边停车位很少,附近有一个大型付费停车场,就在镇上的公交车站旁边。
虽然我们很喜欢这里的食物,但是等待的时间太长,而且服务很差,这让我们第一次去 Craven Kitchen 的用餐体验非常糟糕,而且正如我妻子正确指出的那样,我们可以开车去 Aagrah Shipley,然后等 65 分钟才能等到开胃菜上桌!——我们可能会在未来的某个时候再来尝试一下,也许是在工作日,希望那时他们安静得多,可以提供更好的服务。
(原文)
We booked a table at the Craven Kitchen for a meal this evening before going to see a band playing at the nearby Speakeasy bar in Skipton town center, following a Google search of good Indian restaurants in Skipton.
Our favourite go to Indian restaurant in Skipton used to be the Aagrah, which started off life in the same building now occupied by the Craven Kitchen, before moving to a much larger building near the canal and sadly closing a couple of years ago, forcing us to go to their Shipley branch for our favourite curries.
Although we arrived on time for our 6:30pm reservation we had to wait for 10 minutes in the small waiting area in front of the small bar for our table and during our wait we weren't offered any drinks from the bar nor menus to look at. After being seated at our table it took 10 mins for our order to be taken and another 45 mins for our starters to be eventually served at 7:35pm after chasing twice - a full 1 hour & 5 mins after we arrived!! The small 44 seat restaurant was full on a very busy Saturday evening and there was a steady stream of customers coming in to collect their takeaway orders, however, it was totally unacceptable to have to wait so long for our food to be served.
Our starter of the mixed meat platter to share when it eventually arrived was delicious with plenty of grilled chicken tikka, fish, lamb chops and sheek kebabs with tasty onions on a sizzling platter. There was about a 15 min wait after we finished our starters before we were served our main courses. I had the Chicken Zafrani (firey hot, cooked with bay leaf, cinnamon green chilli, tomato, spring onion, coriander & pepper), my wife had the Nazrang Kamb Nazeez (strips of succulent tender lamb marinated with a hint of chilli, lime juice, then simmered with bay leaf with pepper medium), and we shared a boiled rice and 3 chapattis. The food was very tasty and we enjoyed the meal but not the long wait. My wife had 3 bottles of Tiger beer, I had 1/2 pint of draught Kingfisher beer and the total bill came to a reasonable £52.10. We requested a jug of water when we initially ordered our drinks and had to chase for it 3 times before we finally got it, over 1 hour after ordering it!
The restaurant is accessed via some steep steps at the front and there's a small male & a small female toilet but no disabled toilet, so I'm not sure if it's wheelchair accessible. There's a very small number of on street parking spaces outside the restaurant with a large paid car park nearby, next to the town's bus station.
Although we enjoyed the food, the very long wait for our meal and poor service made it a very poor dinning experience on our 1st visit to the Craven Kitchen and as my wife quite correctly pointed out we could have driven to the Aagrah Shipley and back in the 65 mins we had to wait for our starters to be served! - we might give them another try again sometime in the future, perhaps during the week when they should hopefully be a lot quieter and can provide a better service.