Reviews Nando's Peri-peri

Checked out this location as it just recently opened. Been to all locations in Ottawa and usually go to the one in Nepean. Here is the review for this location

Layout:
Located right in downtown on a busy street. Minimal seating(had to wait a few for a seat as it was busy). Does have a patio. Modern decor, all utensils and sauces located on one end of the restaurant. There are 3 washroom which were modertly clean.

Staff: Nice & Attentive

Food;
Sandwich with Fries: the buns was exceptionally hard which was still fine. I opened my sandwich and there was 1 small tomato and lots of lettuce, the chicken was also smaller portion. They also charge $1 for mayo (spicy mayo) as they don't have the regular. I had to spread that onto my bun with lots of sauce to get it down as it was hard to bite through the bun (and since the chicken and tomato was small, all I ate for a few bites was just bun with lettuce). Kind of dissapointed as I really like Nandos.

I got my fries and they werent even full to the top of the bowl. I thought maybe that how it is untill my 2 friends got theirs and there was a mountain of fries. Lack of consistency may be over looked but not when it occurs on the same table.

Half Chicken: it was dry and lacked flavor even thought I got lemon and herb and Nandos does flavor well.

Sliders: Tasty

This location does not have the tamer sauce nor does it have the peri drizzle ( they charge 1.25$ for it) on the shelf.

Overall, kind if dissapointed. I was thrilled to try this location but I'll stick to the Nepean one. The portions were just too small for my liking.

We had ordered the share platter with piri piri vegetables and Salad. I didnt like the portion sizes we got. I felt we got cheated in a way. I thought the vegetables portion was half of them only onions. It was way too much for it to be 6.50 for a side of veggies. No offense. Onions at inexpensive to the other veggies. I thought the chicken was great, crispy and sauces choices were good. I am unsure if I would go back. I would have order fries or something eelse

Excellent chicken experience for the price, affordable meals for the whole family 👪 easily accessible location with under ground parking across the street expensive though if you aren't walking. Very clean and modern with a futuristic drinks fountain the kids had alot of fun making choices with. Cool lighting with a good drinks choice. Clean and tidy bathroom.

I forgot how much I genuinely like Nando's. Their chicken is moist and flavourful (possibly brined?) and cooked to order over a delicious grill. You get amazing char and flavour for a decently reasonable price. My honest opinion though is skip the sides. They're almost not worth it and just focus on the chicken itself. Garlic potatoes were disgusting, Caesar salad was a joke, the fried were delicious but it's just seasoning salt so of course it's good and the brussel sprouts had great potential but were served soft and had a little too much bitterness. Overall 4/5. Service was okay. Once we get back to dine in I think things will improve. The fragmented order and pay before you are served is a bit odd. We got our drinks after the food had already arrived, and had to ask for our apps after our mains had already come out.

The chicken is good an tasty, however I found their sauces way too salty, plus the service wasn’t great. The waiters never brought us anything, we had to grab anything ourselves and they never checked on us to see if we needed water or cutlery etc.