Salt at Macdonald Portal Hotel, Golf & Spa

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   Carl

   Cheshire

   1 review

   4.0

   1 review

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Really nice meal and service, just table location let it down, by door and was quite drafty and busy
   

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   Christine

   Cheshire

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   A brilliant experience! Chose the valentine menu and thoroughly enjoyed it. 5 courses of incredible food, flavours and appearance were all delicious and served in good time with style! Excellent value for money! An amazing evening will definitely return soon.
   

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   ken

   London

   1 review

   1.0

   1 review

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 5

   You missed the spot.it was that cold we retired to our room to drink our drinks.breakfast was a miss.ie order for coffee got a small one ,on asking for further coffee got another cup plus a pot at the same time eh.also breakfast was poor asked for egg bacon beans ,received egg dried up one slice of bacon one small tube of bacon.should have ordered house breakfast and left what l did not wont.OnCheckout .young lady did not know how to handle my voucher ,still waiting to here.sorry
   

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   Natasha

   Hertfordshire

   1 review

   4.0

   1 review

   Dined on 1 February 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   The food was great, we did well with service but others seemed to struggle. Our young waiter was lovely. The only negative was there were no olives for martini!
   

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   Sharon

   Cheshire

   1 review

   4.0

   1 review

   Dined on 1 February 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   Menu choice ok - the steak was really good, service good. However restaurant was cold.
   

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   Jayne

   Manchester

   2 reviews

   3.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on 18 January 2025

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   Very overpriced! Steak was not very good, tiny, tasteless and dry £38.00. Thought I would have been given a huge steak!
   

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   Kirsty

   Manchester

   1 review

   1.0

   1 review

   Dined on 3 January 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 1

   Food okay, expensive for what you get, restaurant empty at 7.30pm and no atmosphere, felt very rushed and being watched by the manager at all times. Waitress was lovely but £15 service charge for okay food and ridiculous. Had breakfast this morning and continental was okay but help yourself buffet was luke warm and not enjoyable again very quiet. This was a xmas present so not impressed and will not return!
   

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   Lesley

   London

   5 reviews

   4.0

   5 reviews

   Dined on 22 December 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Nice friendly big hotel, bathrooms need a refresh. Very comfortable bed. Ate lunch at hotel was really nice pea and ham soup was lovely and club sandwich was good. Had dinner at Salt but everyone moved to bar lounge area as hotel was quite bit was still good and food was good husband had pork, he thought was good but would have preferred a crispy skin. Being gym members we got 20% off food and drink so that was good too, overall pleasant stay on way to family in England
   

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   Peter

   Gloucestershire

   20 reviews

   2.0

   20 reviews

   Dined on 8 December 2024

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 2

   We booked a table in Salt (the restaurant); it was closed! We had to eat in the bar area. The menu had incorrect calorie values! I asked for ketchup; they delivered bbq sauce. We both had mushy peas; they were cold! The server was ok, apparently kitchen issues. Not a good experience!
   

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    Joel

    Cheshire

    1 review

    2.0

    1 review

    Dined on 3 December 2024

    1. Overall 2
    2. Food 3
    3. Service 3
    4. Ambience 2

    Food in general was ok but a lot of issues. First of all we paid for a hotel package that included dinner and breakfast. In reality it gives you an allowance of 25pp towards the normal menu and if you are having a starter then it is almost impossible to have a meal that falls in the budget. We aren’t tight with money but for 2 of us - Bread, 1 starter, 2 mains which were the cheaper ones on the menu, a couple of sides of sauces and some extra chips and a glass of wine and 2 pints, it came to £120 so in essence we had to pay another £70 on top of the package we had already paid for which wasn’t cheap. The value for money is a bit of a rip off essentially and what you would expect in a high end restaurant in a city centre. Over breakfast - make sure you make the most of the other things on offer as the cooked breakfasts aren’t very big. There was also drilling and banging going on which wasn’t exactly relaxing over food. It took a fair while for the food to come out which is fine as we were in no rush but dinner wasn’t massively warm and one steak was meant to be medium and was almost blue. Waitresses were nice and attentive and one saving grace was they brought out a surprise desert for my partners 40th which was a nice touch but with the cost of everything else, it seemed a bit of a empty gesture. On a final note, worth asking what isn’t available as first choice was not available and the waitress looked annoyed that we hadn’t been told about this beforehand
    

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