Manchester Spring Gardens visited for the Sunday lunch menu. This was our 3rd time in this restaurant. We have enjoyed it so much previously, we travelled 70 miles for a meal that was my daughter's treat for myself and my husband's birthday. It was awful but, as it was a treat, I did not want to make a fuss and embarrass her while we were there. Certainly not the standard we've experienced previously. We ordered the lamb snack. This was £8 for one tiny piece of lamb and less than a mouthful of meat. Looking on a customer picture they were tagged in on Instagram there are normally two bits of lamb stacked. The cauliflower cheese was drowning in something oily. There was half a postage stamp of cabbage on the chicken breast dish and, whilst I appreciate this is a taster menu, the chicken was again one bite full. The desert also looked a lot smaller than on the Instagram pictures I have seen people put on. The very busy restaurant started to empty out as we were eating our food. Did they start running out of food, were they overstretched? I don't know but something was very wrong. At the end, my husband stood outside while I went to the loo. He heard someone coming out of the restaurant telling someone going in that it was ok but there was hardly any food, he was hungry and off for a burger. It kind of sums it up for me too! I have complained since via their customer services. Got a rather weak and somewhat patronising response saying basically that their Instagram pictures are "professionally staged", that I should have complained on the day, that it's a taster menu and portions are a little smaller than the average portion. If this is the way forward for Six By Nico, I would advise giving it a swerve or making sure you view it as a rather overpriced - at circa £50 each by the time they've added the service charge - but pretty snack! It all feels rather overhyped and disappointing now.
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