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Unable to use a voucher at the weekend… despite it being fully paid without any discount. Should not matter and turning away was not helpful.

Voucher to be used but will not be recommended. Disappointing as friends had a very different experience some time ago, looks like the establishment needs to look after their customers more.

I recently tried the 'New York experience' advertised on their Instagram, expecting 6 courses and a glass of champagne for £32, down from £48. Unfortunately, there was no champagne upon arrival, the food was overly salty, and the waitstaff seemed uninformed about the ingredients despite have a script memorised in their mind. Despite mentioning the promotion to the waitress, we were still charged the full price. Overall, a disappointing and unpleasant experience.

The food was lukewarm at best.

Long waits between courses.

Courses weren’t balanced well or complimentary in flavours.

Same cutlery used for all the courses.

Unresponsive serving staff that lacked training.

That the Customer Relations team use a copy-and-paste response to bad reviews that has misspelled “experience” is peak irony that is no doubt completely lost on them and yet evidence that the rot of complacency runs deep with this group.

They truly do not care. Fill the seats. Rotate. Spend a small fortune on marketing to ensure the cycle repeats in the absence of repeat custom.

Ate at Merchant City restaurant yesterday and was really disappointed. With the exception of the fish course and dessert the food was bland, lacking seasoning and was all cold. The batter on the prawns was greasy and a little soggy. Empty wine glasses left on the table from wine pairing and cutlery not changed after every course - small things that make a difference.

Unable to use vouchers for 6 course taster menu - Christmas present- as only last for 3 Months
My husband was diagnosed with cancer at Christmas - & is undergoing chemotherapy for 3 Months- refuse to extend vouchers
Thanks for being so uncaring & harsh - don’t buy vouchers

Birmingham branch. The food was delicious, the staff attentive but two things spoilt my time at six by nico. 1.Our table was opposite the serving counter and the constant noise of plates being put there was deafening, making conversation almost impossible. 2. After our meal we requested coffee to be told no coffee was available. We had teas- ginger & earl grey which weren’t brewed properly so we had to complain. Such a shame these 2 things marred our time. I would hesitate to return unless I could be guaranteed a seat away from the kitchen& serving areas.

Visited the Birmingham place last night and was so disappointed at the whole experience. Taken to our table, a server introduced herself as ‘our server’ but only saw her to come collect plates after we’d finished a course, in total we had around5/6 ‘servers’ who had no idea and were clearly very inexperienced. We had the vegetarian tasting menu, food arrived cold, missing items from plates and not as described on the menu, no depth or flavour and no differentiation between flavours. Was looking forward to the ‘kimchi roll’ that turned out to be a very bland lettuce roll and the ‘crispy tofu’ was slimy!
Rushed service, inexperienced waiting staff, had to ask for specific cutlery, cold food and an underwhelming taste, more style over substance.
Good concept of getting fine dining into the mainstream, but this was no where like fine dining, @sixbynico don’t advertise a service or create menus if you can’t deliver. We will not be visiting again, a shame as we were all looking forward to this and had waited a while to get a booking.

Very disappointing visit for a big birthday. Food was lovely (if rather tepid) but it was served at the speed of a bullet train by grumpy 'young people' with no people skills whatsoever. Just after we had been served our coffees we were told we'd have to leave as they had to get ready for next service. To be fair, the frantic spraying and cleaning of every table around us had signalled to us that we were on borrowed time but we had only been in for 75 mins at this stage! £65 a head for Sunday lunch would have been much better spent elsewhere. Total case of style over substance...with a service fee on top!

Visited the Glasgow Merchant City restaurant in Albion Street today and have to say it was fantastic. Before writing this review I saw a lot of negative comments and I really cannot reconcile them to the experience we had - the restaurant itself was gorgeous, very classy and brilliant atmosphere, the staff were very attentive and friendly, and the food was fantastic (Hanoi menu). We had a brilliant experience and would 100% go back. Yes it's quite expensive - but as an occasional treat it's a total winner. After the 6 courses, pleasantly full without being stuffed, and certainly not hungry. The wine accompaniments were perfect and really enhanced the food. I truly hand on heart would recommend the Merchant city venue readily - I can only assume the negative reviews are for other branches - but the one in Albion Street was first class in all regards, real Masterchef quality.

Visited Six by Nico, Cardiff last night. Extremely disappointing experience. Booked table 6 weeks ago, when we arrived nice waitress booked us in , told us table wasn’t quite ready and as there was no bar we were welcome to stand where we were and wait. On being shown to our table a young waiter explained the Hanoi menu and extras we could purchase. I understand the concept of a taster menu , the first course was served in a chipped black bowl. Flavours quite nice but hardly a mouthful, the same with the rest of the courses. We refused extra prawns at £8 a shot. Also refused taster wines. For what we received the bill was extortionate and to top it all we were charged for extra portion of prawns which we didn’t order or receive and also 2 taster wines which we didn’t have. I certainly won’t be going here again. Nor recommending it to family or friends. I felt very sorry for the young staff working there who were very nice but looked very glum. Not a nice atmosphere at all. Certainly not a good experience.

Expensive and poor service . Food ok . Zero atmosphere

I was really looking forward to my visit to Six by Nico Mad Hatters Tea Party, at their Deansgate Restaurant, as a birthday treat. Overall the restaurant design and atmosphere was lovely with a warm welcome from staff. Explanation of how the tasting menu worked with options was carefully explained by our key server who was lovely. First two courses of snacks and course 1 were lovely, but it then went downhill, service became slow and presentation of all dishes did not represent in my opinion, The Mad Hatters T Party, and certainly the food presentation did not reflect how it was advertised to what was actually served on the night. Whilst food overall in terms of courses 2, 3 4 and 5 was nice, it was not overwhelming and certainly there was no wow factor, albeit some elements were tasty and better than others. The dessert course was by far the poorest course, supposedly the queen of hearts, it was significantly delayed and whilst it is acknowledged that a complimentary dessert wine from the paring menu was provided to all our party, with an apology for the delay, the dish when eventually served was significantly underwhelming, very poor and more importantly did not reflect the menu description and/or the picture shown in the advert., it was evident that there was some sort of a problem, I observed, who I can only assume was the head chef standing behind the pass on her mobile phone, clearly not happy, but instead of being honest to us as a customer, at the point they finally served the dessert to the table, they served in my opinion a very sub standard dessert…if you check the website and look at the pictures other customers had posted eg a Deep Red Heart chunks of red velvet cake, raspberry’s etc…to what we were served, namely a pale pink mousse, no raspberry’s, some dots of white and red coulis and a light dusting of what appeared to have been cake dust particles, then to say I was disappointed would be an underestimate. In my view there were missed opportunities that could have made you believe you were at the Mad Hatters Tea party, due to the lack of imagination and presentation of what was basically restaurant dishes, save for the title they were given. Overall I did not feel this was good value for money…especially when you have James Martin down the road, who delivers much more and is value for money. When your paying this much, £39.00 per person for tasting, add on the optional extras, including paring wine, snacks, aperitifs and drinks in general, all of which racks up the cost and is to enhance the experience, I expected much, much more.

Amazing Concept. Would definitely return

The Table!!!!

Went from terrible, we won't be coming here again, to enjoable, but should never have even been terrible at the standard of restaurant.

We visited Leeds Six by Nico as we were bought as a Christmas gift voucher. Booked the Alice in Wonderland experience as we are massive fans.

Arrived on time for our table booking at 7pm, but our table was not ready. 20min later than booking our table was ready.

Shown to our TABLE!! Introduced to said TABLE as "cosy"!!
What can we say this TABLE was not cosy it was awful, a table that should not be where it is!!. The emergency TABLE.

Have you ever felt like the restaurant over booked and forgot your booking?! Well this table made you feel like that.
Or maybe we smelt or were not dressed well enough to sit in the restaurant with other customers, so put them there out the way. We actually felt so uncomfortable, not cosy at all. The so called "COSY TABLE" on its own, is just to the left of the stairs into the restaurant, staring at everyone else, sat on the right in the main restaurant area to the other side of the walk way, before a door the staff went in and out off. Yes we were sat in the corridor, the forgotten table!
The headteacher table watching all the others in the atmosphere of the dining hall. Yeah you got the picture now, not cosy.

Made our feelings aware to the Maitre D. Who did apologise and said we are fully booked, which we could tell, hence felt like the emergency cosy table had been slid out to cater with over bookings. My poor husband was like we can do this once the wine flows it will be fine, trying to make the crap table positioning feel less awful. But we can tell you staff rushing past blowing a gale each time they past and other customers standing right next to you putting coats over their arms to manage the stairs etc. Was very uncomfortable and not a cosy positioning.

Then we had course one and waited over 20min for course two. Luckily we had the wine experience as well as taster experience. So had our first glass of wine delivered in the big gap and chatted trying to get over the uncomfortable positioning of said TABLE.

At course four the Maitre D came to say she had a table in the main restaurant we could move to. We asked if we could look as did not want to move from "cosy table" to worse, when half way through eating. Especially as my husband had seen two more tables in the corridor when he went to use the toilets. They were together not as solitary as our so called cosy table, but he come back saying they have other over flow tables, you really wouldn't want on route to the bathroom.

The new table was much better, in zone two and had atmosphere and you could see the chefs busy away making the artistic food. We got talking to the couple next to us and actually felt like we were out in a restaurant, not sat on our own on the outside looking in.

So grateful that the Maitre D listened to our upset when first sat down. We made sure we thanked her as we left.

The food, the wine and the staff luckily made up for the said TABLE experience.

The waitressing staff were fantastic at their jobs and very friendly. The amount of information they have to remember regarding each course and wine is amazing!

The food was very well presented and although very small portions it is packed with flavour and delicious, although if you watch advertising video or look at photos, your portions you actually get are not to the standard of advertising! If only we could have had seconds of the mushroom broth from course one. It was delicious which was how we had got chatting to the table next to us once moved. Was a shame our waiter at "cosy table!" did not do what the waiter in zone 2 did re course 3. We watched him actually using the sauce to paint the goats cheese rose red!! As well as let the customer paint their rose. Would have been a much better experience.

It was such a good job the menu was edible! As we still needed more food after six courses to soak up all the wine before fresh air, this was a fun twist. We most definitely went to a Mad hatter's tea party.

First time at SixByNico (Glasgow West End). 6 course Funfair taster menu. Quite a letdown. Food was average at best, and some dishes were poorly conceived, with a mismatch of flavours, and too much salt. One dish was mostly unpalatable.

Service was tired, rushed, and inattentive. All of this would be bad enough if the price was fair, however £135 for 2 people with no alcohol, and 6 tiny dishes which were quite literally “one bite” each, is wildly and inexplicably overpriced.

Disappointing experience and would not return.

If I could give minus stars I would. My husband received vouchers for his retirement and we've had a difficult year. Wanted to use them in new year in 2024 but no, they won't honour them. £150 worth of vouchers and no meal. Absolutely disgusting way to treat people. Don't buy vouchers from them. We won't ever go to any of their restaurants agsin

Tasting menu restaurants are an experience. They create a menu that takes you on a journey via staging, calibration, seasonality, pairing. The staff are prepared and well-versed on the courses, and create a sense of ease and harmony within the space.

SBN models themselves more on a Chinese buffet template rather than the tried-and-tested Michelin one, churning out the numbers as quickly as possible to customers elbow-to-elbow. Eavesdropping fellow diners conversations can be a fun distraction. Becoming acquainted with their skincare routines is not.

Every element about Six by Nico screams an early-noughties red-brick catering college final exam dinner. Like their budget-bursting marketing ads, they’re all surface and zero substance, cynically targeting the social media-obsessed generations that cherish photos of food over the food itself. Entry-level “high cuisine” for the seriously oblivious masses. Vacuousness personified.

And just like a recent graduate - there is an absence of maturity, experience and calibration. It is all gimmickry, neediness and show. There is no consideration or calibration in the courses. Salt upon salt upon salt. None of the courses compliment the next, nothing to cleanse the palate and break flavour profiles. Just the pervasive, lingering accumulation of salt.

Matching the disharmonious food, the clearly NMW staff bellow out the courses disinterestedly and obviously tired by the rotations. Over-working has pulled the effort for charm right out of them. Out of curiosity, when questioned about the produce and provenance - a dull expression is unsurprisingly the resounding answer. We enquired about a drinks flight menu and in turn a drinks menu was produced. Suggestions for pairings were requested and we got to see that now familiar dull expression all over again.

High turnover = high profit margins. But using a tasting menu template without any consideration for refinement results in a poor experience. Six By Nico is a beef bourguignon TV dinner - an attempt at fine dining for the budget-based masses. It’s a Soundcloud cover band version of a song you really liked but can’t access. It is a catering college open evening dinner where they try to pass off a quenelle of corner shop vanilla ice cream as their own. It is a paradigm of the vacuous self-promotion and superficiality that pervades contemporary experiences perpetuated by online life, and for that, I congratulate them on cashing in off it.

Soulless, uninspired, affordable. A lot like Primark.

For point of reference to West End dining, they are doing great things at No.16, The Gannet, Gloriosa, Eighty Eight, Five March, and CB (if you can get a reservation!)

Disappointed after being told by vouchers@sixbynico that we aren't able to use the gift vouchers we received as a wedding gift last year (£80). They won't extend the expiry date. This was 6 months which I hadn't realised! Thought it was a year & its written in v small print! I explained to them were unable to use them within 6 months as husband works shifts us we have 3 kids. I wanted to book for March 2024 for first anniversary. They were unwilling
to extend & were not understanding at all. Very poor. Won't be dining there now as that's put me right off.

Avoid buying a gift voucher for Sixbynico. £100 wedding gift voucher had a ridiculous 6mth expiry on it. Clearly not an inclusive restaurant that understands not everyone lives in a city with little or no child care to consider.

We arrived for our reservation to find the door locked. Staff could quite clearly see us stood on the pavement in the cold but we were left stood standing outside for approximately 5 minutes. We were eventually let in, no apologies or reason given.