‘Impeccable vibes’ restaurant chain with 50 branches is a surprising UK favourite

From quirky bistros with celebrated clientele, to beloved concatenation restaurants similar Dishoom, UK diners are spoilt for choice.

With astir 200 Michelin starred restaurants, we’ve got fine dining covered, and you can’t spell incorrect with the thoroughfare nutrient to beryllium recovered successful the likes of London’s Borough oregon Liverpool’s Baltic markets.

But a caller ranking of the UK’s apical 20 restaurants revealed that we Brits are harbouring a quiescent obsession for 1 concatenation successful particular: Turtle Bay.

According to caller information by Google Maps, 4 Turtle Bay branches made it into the apical list: Oxford Road Manchester (10), Birmingham (13), Northern Quarter Manchester (14), Leicester (20).

The ranking was worked retired via searching done online Google reviews to find the places with the highest fig of reviews and ratings of much than 4 stars.

Each of the Turtle Bay locations listed person an astir cleanable score. And with gushing comments from diners, it’s wide Brits emotion the place.

‘Every crockery was bursting with spirit and perfectly seasoned,’ wrote 1 Google reviewer. While different said the spot has ‘impeccable vibes.’

Turtle Bay has much than 50 branches crossed the UK, serving up Caribbean-inspired food. According to the menu, their jerk dishes, specified arsenic jerk beef rib (17.50) and jerk chickenhearted fractional (£15.20), are ‘expertly seasoned’ successful a ‘secret spice hitch look and marinated for 24 hours.’

The edifice is calved from a travel to Barbados, aft laminitis Ajith Jayawickrema, was visiting the land and looking for authentic Caribbean food.

He stumbled crossed a beachside hut called Surfside, wherever helium enjoyed snacks and cocktails. It was specified an astonishing experience, that Ajith wanted to recreate his acquisition backmost home.

The archetypal tract opened successful Milton Keynes successful 2010, and it’s been a steadfast UK favourite ever since.

‘Food is delicious!’ wrote 1 TripAdvisor reviewer who visited the Brixton branch. ‘Great flavours, with the close spices – highly urge the curry goat. Drinks are amazing.’

Another said: ‘I would urge this to immoderate person oregon household to devour here. The curry goat was the item of the nighttime and the jerk wings were afloat of flavour.’

Meanwhile, visitors to Manchester’s Oxford Road subdivision were arsenic thrilled. ‘Food was amazing, drinks were delicious. The vibes successful the edifice were excellent.’

The bottomless brunch (which offers 2 hours of booze positive 1 main for £37.20pp) was besides praised, arsenic were the staff, with reviewers raving astir their servers crossed the country, adding: ‘The radical marque the place.’

The main disapproval diners did person of the concatenation though, is that it’s not authentic Caribbean food.

‘I wouldn’t spell determination looking for “authenticity”,’ 1 Redditor. ‘But it’s inactive tasty nutrient and a bully atmosphere.’

Another explained: ‘I grew up connected location cooked Caribbean food. I tin honestly accidental that the nutrient successful Turtle Bay does not truly lucifer thing I deliberation of arsenic Caribbean food. That said it’s not unspeakable if you get past that.’

While a 3rd summed it by saying: ‘Turtle Bay is fundamentally the Nando’s of Caribbean.’

And idiosyncratic connected TikTok added: ‘Moved the the UK 2 years agone and was excited to find Turtle Bay… I don’t cognize what that was but it wasn’t our food.’

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