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Cerys Smit -
4 months ago
We planned to have a family lunch for my hubby's birthday and as we felt like a buffet we decided to give Billy G's at Montecasino a chance as it was the best option for everyone.
We were told that we were required to pay beforehand in order to secure our booking, but when we got there they made us wait while they checked for our payment but let in the people paying at the door. Clearly paying beforehand was not necessary and also did not guarantee you a table as we were told to just pick any table.
We were then led to a table and dropped off without any kind of explanation of how the system works, they just assume that you know. We had been informed beforehand that drinks were not included, but there was no drinks menus and our waitress seemed irritated by us not knowing what options they had.
At some point one member of our group went to ask for mustard as there wasn't any among the sauces, and while they were away from the table we were told that we cannot order coffee as "there is no milk at the moment". We requested to speak to the manager who was informed of our request while en route with the mustard and made a very loud and sarcastic response along the lines of "why am I not surprised". We were then told that we could order coffee, the milk was just separate from the bar and had not been moved to the bar area yet.
I had informed them several times while making the booking that we had a baby under 2 with us and required a kiddy seat, we had to ask for one to be brought as nobody bothered to bring one when we were seated.
The food was fine and we enjoyed most of it, even though some of the meat options were a little dry and some of the options could have done with some spicing. On the whole we didn't have an issue with the food, but the indifferent, lazy and sarcastic behaviour of the staff and management will ensure that we will never go back again.
And to top it all off there was an issue when we went to pay the drinks bill where they insisted on adding R37 to the bill but couldn't properly explain what the addition was, even though we could see that all of the drinks ordered were on the bill.
The food is okay if are fine with being treated like an annoyance, otherwise avoid at all costs.