Chelo Goodbye?
Pro Photo friendly, with eyecatching milkshakes and classic-looking dishes
Con Authentic americana is a long way away. The Atlantic ocean, roughly.
Pro Photo friendly, with eyecatching milkshakes and classic-looking dishes
Con Authentic americana is a long way away. The Atlantic ocean, roughly.
Per Person €€ Food ★★ Service ★★★★ VFM ★★
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Dietary You'll need to check.
In Pictures
On Google Images
In Pictures
On Google Images
The Story
Hopes? Will you say high? Will I say low? Will you say no, will I say go go go?
Reality? Help! A very mixed bag. 42 5* Google reviews can be wrong. You say, Why? And I say, I don't know.
First Impressions? Red, white and a bulk purchase of decorative kit from four doors up the road. We just don't know if that dinner is deliberately not diner. Inside it's trying to be a diner, and, if you're brave, serving something that looks like dinner.
USP? The visuals. But it's all in the visuals, really. A yellow submarine-era restaurant brought to life.
The offer in three words? Ultimately pretty two-dimensional.
Service? One hardworking server kept things moving at a good rate despite a big family group to look after.
Reality? Help! A very mixed bag. 42 5* Google reviews can be wrong. You say, Why? And I say, I don't know.
First Impressions? Red, white and a bulk purchase of decorative kit from four doors up the road. We just don't know if that dinner is deliberately not diner. Inside it's trying to be a diner, and, if you're brave, serving something that looks like dinner.
USP? The visuals. But it's all in the visuals, really. A yellow submarine-era restaurant brought to life.
The offer in three words? Ultimately pretty two-dimensional.
Service? One hardworking server kept things moving at a good rate despite a big family group to look after.
Eat me! Salchipapa came with some clearly homecut chips at Chelo's Dinner, and bonus points for not wasting good food serving them skins included. They probably needed 30 seconds more in the fryer, though. And some more seasoning. None was on the table. The Barbie-pink sliced sausages didn't inspire confidence and I'd rather have had two contrasting sauces than tartar times two. Ta (ta), very much.
Chelo's Parilla Burger comes with chorizo, Argentina style, and chimichurri. Both are present, correct and fine. But the burger's not right for me. It's too dense. A rubbery. squashed hockey puck that doesn't feel like freshly ground beef which, if it is, means something's not right in the preparation. Chelo's Bacon Burger also comes in a very fresh brioche bun and again there's a fair serving of those decent home cut chips. But there's no alternative potato option. And no other attempts at garnish, investment or visual detail, which leaves things looking unloved. The meat patty's like the first one too, even though it's supposed to be well done it an identical texture and colour.
Any good news? You can't do bacon wrong easily, and the two pieces of bacon in the brioche with some ketchup, making a mini bacon sandwich, are the nicest thing I've eaten this evening,
Friend friendly? Chelo's Dinner is not going to work for some food preferences. It's wings, tenders, burgers. The usual protein suspects. There's lots of potatoes around, but even the salad is chicken Caesar.
Rating for dating? If you're about 15, you may say, Yes. I say, No.
Rating for dating? If you're about 15, you may say, Yes. I say, No.
Change one thing? Those burgers. Something about the texture just wasn't what we wanted at all.
Revisitability? As dinner it's not getting us back any time soon. As a diner, Lori's it really isn't. You say, stop, and I say, don't go, go, go.
Revisitability? As dinner it's not getting us back any time soon. As a diner, Lori's it really isn't. You say, stop, and I say, don't go, go, go.