Côte West Bridgford

It was nice to visit for the first time since lockdown. The outside seating and the service were good, as usual. However, both my husband and I were disappointed with our food. The menu is pretty limited - I can understand why. However, my Crottin salad was based on literally a tablespoon of cheese. My husband said his crab mayonnaise (£9) was mostly cucumber. I have never previously felt 'ripped off' in Cote and this was sad. I can understand that you need to be optimising your profit margins at this time, but the food was not sufficiently tasty to make the tiny-portions-with-padding strategy acceptable. If you can't afford the ingredients, I think it's better not to use them. Put something else on the menu and do it well. We are loyal customers but left feeling dissatisfied with our 'special' lunch and I can't imagine that we'll be back for more than coffee in a hurry.

Great service, fabulous atmosphere, delicious food, always a great experience.

Just as good as ever,glad you are back.Service and food excellent,Felt very safe.Thank you.

Ordered cheese burger fries way too salty burger ok ! Please don't assume a table of two should pay gratuity very cheeky!!

It was wonderful to be able to have lunch at Cote again. The tables are well spaced and nicely dressed, the food was really good and the staff as charming and helpful a ever. Roll on breakfast opening again.

It was great to be back after lockdown Our favourite West Bridgford restaurant overlooking the Croquet Lawn. A wonderful place to dine outside, enjoy fantastic food and wine, and people watching. What better way is there to enjoy a leisurely lunch?

Everything was spot on last night, ambiance, service, food, timing, I am very impressed, well done team Cote!

Excellent to be able to visit once again - very memorable occasion.

Love Cote, West Bridgford. My first visit out since Covid and I found it very reassuring. Staff are lovely and food is great. Thank you.

We were glad Cote had reopened and were not disappointed on our first visit back. Tim and his team were their usual friendly and very efficient selves, fantastic!

Food was brilliant. Service good and chatty. Atmosphere average because well spread out

Wonderful to see Cote back up and running and at their usual very high standard of food and service. All staff were friendly and efficient. All staff were wearing visors and constantly sanitising their hands. Felt very satisfied with the precautions and enjoyed yet another delicious meal.

The food and wine is consistently good and the prices are reasonable.

Excellent food and service. The crab starter and main course - fish parmentier were delicious, especially accompanied by the complimentary cocktails! The staff made a Birthday celebration very special.

Lovely meal and very attentive staff. Just wish they would get rid of that 12.5% service charge. I don’t like being told what I should give.

No table reserved for us on arrival even though I booked and requested a table. Poor service. Food not as good as usual. Ordered extra toast and it came after we had finished eating. Overall very disappointing brunch.

The food was lovely but what really stood out were the wonderful staff. So friendly efficient and very welcoming. Thank you all very much

The staff are amazing, they were really welcoming and accommodating.

Always reliably excellent food and service at a very good price. We are never disappointed. Portions are a good size and theee courses leaves a satisfiyingly full stomach.

Seated immediately by attentive staff. Waitress keen to please, knowledgeable when asked about menu choices and beautifully presented. Food well cooked, served in a relaxed atmosphere. Definitely recommend.

Excellent food and friendly personal service can’t recommend this place enough

The food is always reliably excellent here, and it was again today. Service a bit slower than usual, and noise level (“music”) appalling. I guarantee that if it was turned off everyone would be pleased.

Food was lovely and tge service was excellent.... Only down side was beer in 27.5 ml bottles.....will definitely go again.. 👍

This is the second time that we've had a bad experience at Cote West Bridgford, the first being my birthday meal last October. Again, the problem was with my wife's vegetarian meal and on this occasion, the risotto was cold when it arrived but when we asked for it to be reheated, it came back swimming on stock and was inedible.

As a regular customer today has been a total disaster!! Booked a table for 12.30 for Brunch prior to the international cricket at Trent Bridge!!As expected you were vey busy but was astounded when we sat down that Brunch which you serve till 1.00pm was no longer available and we would have to eat off the A La Carte menu!!Your duty manager said you wouldn’t serve the Brunch we had booked for leaving my party no option but to leave the restaurant!!As there are 5 international World Cup matches coming up at Trent Bridge over the next 6 Weeks Which all start at 2.00pm are you going to stop serving Brunch on a whim as you did today!!!I’m sure you are aware that there are numerous venues on the Avenue in West Bridgford where Brunch is available! I hope you are brave enough to answer this email and in turn compensate for your failings!! I awaite your early reply!! Wojtek Nagorski 07885199168

Lovely food, relaxed atmosphere. Rib eye steak, calamari and french onion soup were delicious. Service was pleasant. This was our second meal here, will return again.

Food was fantastic, my soup was initially not hot enough, but that soon got sorted. Salad Nicoise was divine, hope they never take it off the menu. Mirabelle Tart for dessert was excellent, thoroughly recommended. Service was very good , but I do object to a 12.5% service charge being added to the final bill. It is not a formal restaurant with very fancy standards of service, it's just good, down to earth chain restaurant style food. I am a grown up & very capable of assessing whether I have deemed the service to be worthy of the extra reward of a gratuity. I realise it is optional, but then you put the customer in the awkward & potentially embarrassing position of declining it in order not to have to pay it. £8.25 tip for a table of 2 for lunch is excessive IMO. We have a number of restaurants within 5 minutes walk of each other & this is the only one to work this way.

Excellent food and excellent service as ever. Fantastic gluten free range of options. A lovely dining experience with a long, leisurely, delicious lunch. We were very well looked after.

We love having Sunday morning breakfast at Cote, the food is delicious and the service is always outstanding. The ambience is spot on, a great place to eat with friends and family.

Nice atmosphere and today our food was excellent. Having been there a few times but today we went at 1.30. Normally we would go a little later in the afternoon and its never quite been as good. I don’t really like the 12 1/2% optional service charge. Other people I know feel the same. I will not pay an extra 12 1/2% on wine which is always overpriced at restaurants. I know it’s optional but why not simply say that gratuities go to staff fullstop.

Delicious.... never fail to impress, truly another fabulous evening. You are out go to restaurant for the overall going out experience.... we have never had anything negative to say.... and to night hasn't been anything different. Perfect.

Great service and always excellent food! Quality is always guaranteed and the service is friendly, efficient and professional. Breakfast is very healthy and always good value.

Well we had a reservation and queued like cattle outside your kitchen while waiters passed food over our heads. The food was average. The service poor and you automatically add a 12% service charge. Absolutely ridiculous!

Food was very good but did find the noise level quite high for me personally. Very pleasant evening and service good for full restaurant on Saturday evening.

Outr waitress was lovely. Food good standard robust choice of wines. I like french onion soup an excellent staple. Blood orange cocktail a nice touch. all very enjoyable thank you

Service was very good as was the food. Cote has redeemed itself after our bad experience in Glasgo.

We have been here many times and will not be slow to come again. The food is delicious; the staff are friendly and efficient and the wine us well priced for the quality. Difficult to beat this in West Bridgford or indeed in Nottingham

The whole experience felt very rushed. Within 10mins our food and 3 drinks where in the table. The quality of the food was excellent as always. The 12.5% service charge added for 3 people at breakfast was also a tad surprising. . . Also surprised that there wasn’t a small gift for the Mother’s as other restaurants on the Avenue were doing. That said though it was still an enjoyable breakfast apart from the constant banging from upstairs .

It was a really nice evening - the food was amazing and I would definately go back and recommend to others! Thank you very much, it was lovely

Quick excellent service , only downfall was a squealing child , but it was lunchtime not an evening meal. Food was excellent and also an alternative suggestion when I said I didn’t like black pudding