Jingles Restaurant

Jingles was one of those places that my fiancée and I had always wanted to visit since we got together. We'd often go past and say how it would be nice to go there for a meal.

So, for her birthday I arranged a surprise meal at Jingles.

We were really disappointed with what we found. The service was okay but not what I would say outstanding. When choosing the food they staff didn't really explain what was included. I was surprised to find that the 'sweet' sauce on the Enchiladas actually contained chocolate. It wasn't a very good meal and cost about £17!

The one good thing about the meal was the chocolate desert but again that was about £6.

Having been disappointed once, we thought we'd give it the benefit of the doubt and have another try, this time with something not so exotic (this time we went out as a group for a work colleague's leaving do). We had pre-ordered the food a couple of days in advance and were supposed to be at the restaurant for 7pm. Although we were a few minutes late (due to bad parking in the area - although Jingles can't be blamed for that), we still had to wait about 45 minutes for the starters to arrive. We had drinks while we were waiting which took a while to arrive. As I was driving I had a large coke, and that tasted watered down. :-(

The meal itself (steak) wasn't too bad although it did seem fairly overpriced for what I got. Again this took ages to arrive.

Ordering another round of drinks was a nightmare, the staff didn't seem to be interested in bringing the drinks over. I did actually go to the bar to order a couple of drinks but they said they would bring it over. I tried to explain I was able to carry a couple of drinks over to the table but they were adement that they wanted to bring it to the table so I went and sat down. 10 minutes later someone finally brought the drinks over (they were sitting on the bar for a good 5 minutes with staff seemingly ignoring the drinks sitting there).

By the end of the meal I was so fed up with the lousy service I decided to leave early with my fiancée. We tried to pay for our meal but as we were in a group we were unable to pay for our own food and it had to be paid for as a group!

In the end we left some cash to cover our food with our colleagues and left.

I certainly won't be visiting Jingles again. I was really disappointed at the service (or lack of), and the atmosphere did not feel Mexican or Texan at all. They didn't even have any authentic music playing!

I could only reluctantly recommend Jingles to someone who really loves Mexican food and nothing else.

The food here has generally always been good, however they dont seem to be able to cope if there are more than two of you...Large parties/groups of people definately aren't their forte!!!

Portions are HUGE as well....Too huge, even for the healthiest of apetites!!

Have been to Jingles several times and each time it seems to go down in standards... The food is OK, but thats about the best you can say ...OK. The portions are massive and they would do bettter reducing the quantity of food and speeding up the delivery.

On my last visit we were in a party of 15 and despite ordering a week in advance it still took an hour to get the starter, and no one wanted to take drink orders or make sure we were happy. I would have had a desert but as it took nearly 3 hours from entering the restaurent to finishing the main course my enthusiams had diminished.

IT could be so good but they need to sort out the basics... :(