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Wagamama - Crap/Not Crap

Wagamama = crap/not crap

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Dubversion said:
i don't find their food any worse than most noodle bars etc, maybe not as good as Ichiban but certainly better than Fujiyama, for example..
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If I want ramen I go for ramen but I'm not fucking paying more than a couple of quid for it. It's only fucking ramen not fucking sashimi just because it comes from asia. Plus its chinese fucking noodles anyway at wagamama not ramen at all.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
I usually like it but the service is starting to piss me off now (Harvey Nicks branch - near where I work).

The way they just bring your food whenever they fancy is starting to grate. A group of us went the other day and everyone had nearly finished before one girl's food turned up. The vegetables in mine were raw and when I complanied, they looked at me like I was mental. They've also tried to charge for things they didn't actually bother to bring to the table. Maybe it's just that branch - I don't know.

They always try to excuse the poor service on the grounds that they're really busy because it's lunchtime. It's a fucking restaurant! When are we supposed to eat? :rolleyes:
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Thats how I found that branch in cental london too. Charged for other stuff, uncooked veg and food delivered whenever.


I hate it hate it hate it.
 
I like it, I don't give a shit if the noodles are chinese or japanese or if the ingredients came frome england, japan, siberia, or afghanistan. I think it's decent and am quite happy to eat there when passing and hungry.
 
it woul be cool, Suplex, if you could reccomend us some not overpriced places in London for a quick, no frills lunch.
:cool:
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
£60, but my point is that Wagamama may be cheap for an evening meal but it is not cheap for what you get served. You would never take a date there anyway.
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A main course for £6 is what I would consider cheap. I've been to quite a few restaurants around london, and I cook a lot (so I know how much ingredients costs), and I'd say that wagamamas is good value.

I would never take a date to wagamama! :eek:
 
Having said all that - I did vote "not crap" because I do quite like the food.
I might not be going again though - purely because of the shite service.
 
never been to wagamama. but been to tuk tuk (another noodle type place, not a chain as far as i know) on old compton street quite a few times - cheap, lovely food, quick, friendly service. :cool:
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
£60, but my point is that Wagamama may be cheap for an evening meal but it is not cheap for what you get served. You would never take a date there anyway.
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I would.. and they'd be grateful.
 
waverunner said:
I like it, I don't give a shit if the noodles are chinese or japanese or if the ingredients came frome england, japan, siberia, or afghanistan. I think it's decent and am quite happy to eat there when passing and hungry.
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hear hear



please don't hit me :p
 
spanglechick said:
it woul be cool, Suplex, if you could reccomend us some not overpriced places in London for a quick, no frills lunch.
:cool:
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Probably not as I make my own lunch and work south of the river in Waterloo.

My point was that wagamama is not woth it. Personaly if I bothered to go for lunch I would have frills otherwise I might as well make my own.
 
milesy said:
never been to wagamama. but been to tuk tuk (another noodle type place, not a chain as far as i know) on old compton street quite a few times - cheap, lovely food, quick, friendly service. :cool:
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Did that used to be called Mens Bar Hamine? A few years ago we used to go to an authentic Japanese noodle bar in Soho, full on Japanese customers,great big steaming bowls of ramen for under a fiver and sumo wrestling on the telly. :)

I rarely eat out these days so I haven't been back in years.
 
waverunner said:
I like it, I don't give a shit if the noodles are chinese or japanese or if the ingredients came frome england, japan, siberia, or afghanistan. I think it's decent and am quite happy to eat there when passing and hungry.
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That's not what I was saying.

It is just another slightly anoying thing about wagamama that they say they have japanese noodles when they are not.

It's like getting boiled potatos when you ordered roast. If you like the way they do boiled potatos then fine who cares. Just bugs me.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Probably not as I make my own lunch and work south of the river in Waterloo.

My point was that wagamama is not woth it. Personaly if I bothered to go for lunch I would have frills otherwise I might as well make my own.
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but that's not an objection to Wagamama's per se, is it? it's an objection to any 'no frills' style place.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Probably not as I make my own lunch and work south of the river in Waterloo.

My point was that wagamama is not woth it. Personaly if I bothered to go for lunch I would have frills otherwise I might as well make my own.
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so if you don't have the cooking skills, and can't afford the frills (man, i can't afford wagamama's anyway...) you end up going to wagamama's if you want noodles for lunch, you see?
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
If I want ramen I go for ramen but I'm not fucking paying more than a couple of quid for it. It's only fucking ramen not fucking sashimi just because it comes from asia. Plus its chinese fucking noodles anyway at wagamama not ramen at all.
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I'll admit that I've occasionally ate at Wagamama and reckon you'd be better off buying some 29p ramen from your local oriental supermarket. The Katsu curry sauce tastes exactly as it would out of a cheap sachet too.

I wouldn't get too het up over it though. It's just fodder that you can wolf down, a vaguely better option that another sodding sandwich. I can understand why you get pissed off with the faux-Japanese bollocks though - it gets on my wick a little too. They're just another marketing-led chain to be fair though - the McDonalds of the 'ramen' world, albeit with a hokey-invented nationality, like Wimpey used to reinvent US burger bars (and benders) not very well for the British audience.
 
Nando's isn't that bad, though terrible compared to the piri piri chicken you get in portugal. They used to serve a whole chicken marinaded in their piri piri marinade, on top of chips, with a ladle of piri piri chicken fat poured over

*drools*

*loosens belt*
 
Wagamama is one of the few 'chain' places I can go to where I can leave at the end without feeling like I'm going to throw up. Although I can't eat any of the curries, they do make me sick. I like the udon stuff and mixing all the starters together :) Ditto Nandos, has never made me ill. Other places such as typical high street noodle places make me feel awful, and same for McD's, Burger King etc.
 
tarannau said:
I'll admit that I've occasionally ate at Wagamama and reckon you'd be better off buying some 29p ramen from your local oriental supermarket. The Katsu curry sauce tastes exactly as it would out of a cheap sachet too.

I wouldn't get too het up over it though. It's just fodder that you can wolf down, a vaguely better option that another sodding sandwich. I can understand why you get pissed off with the faux-Japanese bollocks though - it gets on my wick a little too. They're just another marketing-led chain to be fair though - the McDonalds of the 'ramen' world, albeit with a hokey-invented nationality, like Wimpey used to reinvent US burger bars (and benders) not very well for the British audience.
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