Masa Restaurant

Reviews about Masa Restaurant

• 4 / 5

  By N Owen
  Have been for dinner and to a wedding here. First and foremost the food is good, and the conversion of the chapel to a restaurant makes for a really interesting setting, and one that provides a pleasant environment both to dine upstairs and in the bar downstairs.
  
  However, the staff let it down. Firstly the wedding was at 2.30pm, and Masa did not open up until 2.10pm on a bitterly cold December afternoon. This may change as the registrar mentioned that this is not acceptable practice for a licenced wedding venue.
  
  The woman who did finally open up and was in charge is hardly the friendly front of house face that makes you want to come back and book again, and the service is not quite slow, but certainly isn't efficient. This maybe due to the restrictions of movement caused by the layout upstairs, but if you're not in a rush, it's just about bearable.
  
  However, service at the bar was excrutiatingly slow. For a wedding of 75 people they started with one person behind the bar, and then later added a second. This made things slightly better, but if this was a pub I'd have gone elsewhere.
  
  The service/staff issues are a shame as this could be a really good restaurant. The food is very good, and prices are high end for Derby, but if the service matched the food, it would be good value. Derby needs a good restaurant of this type and this could be it with just a few simple improvements.
  May 09, 2017
• 2 / 5

  By 0oConorJRoystono0
  Went there as me and my partner decided to try something new. The place is a converted old chapel, the inside and outside was lovely and gorgeous.
  The staff were really welcoming and kind!
  Really high quality ware you used (plates, cutlery, ascetics)
  Unfortunately for most of it ... that's where it ends on good points in short.
  For the price we paid (over £90 for two meals and a single drink each), as someone who's been to a good few over £90 meal restaurants you either expect for that price either
  1) - Food that tastes almost as good as it can be made
  or
  2) - Enough food to fill you up
  Unfortunately Masa failed on both.
  We had a Starter, main and desert all with an appetiser before each (which we didn't actually know we got, which I'll admit.. they were nice) however every meal was less than 7 small bites of food each.
  My main alone was chicken breast with 4 small mushrooms and a handful of cali beans and pancetta. I finished the chicken in 5 bites, to put it in perspective all of my meals together doesn't even reach the amount of a starter from most places I have visited to eat.
  Now, this wasn't any fault of the staff. They were lovely. The place is lovely. The food is .. laid out beautifully.... but the taste was only averagely good.
  So in my opinion for the price it is, it's not worth the amount of food you get at all I'm afraid.
  I'd recommend to someone.. but I'd warn them about the amount of food you get.
  August 01, 2016
• 4 / 5

  By richard reeves
  Great building went for a wedding so lovely buffet but as we didn't eat from the menu that's as much as I can offer
  July 11, 2016
• 5 / 5

  By Glynes Crooks
  Wonderful food. Lovely atmosphere. Excellent staff.
  June 18, 2016