Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack

I've been here a couple of times and have never been disappointed!

The staff are wonderful, the atmos is great and its wonderful value for money!

The only problem is deciding what to have to eat. The meatloaf if ace, so is the fish!

If you can - book in now for the Momma Cherri's Thanksgiving Dinner and prepare for the biggest meal you'll ever eat! Amazing!

If I was granted one last meal - it would come from the menu at Momma Cherri's!
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James Peters, Brighton
Thursday, March 13, 2008

I totally disagree with the bad reviews of momma cherri's and can't believe they're talking about the same restaurant!! Not only do I love the food there (especially the macaroni cheese and chorizo thing) but find the staff go out of their way to be friendly and the whole atmosphere is just like being at a close family friend's house. I'm a big fan!!
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Chloe from Clapham
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Music was fantastic,great food,perfect evening out with soulfull tunes
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Music was fantastic,great food,perfect evening out with soulfull tunes
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Wonderful,

I ate at momma cherri's on friday and liked it so much I had to take my wife along for lunch the next day which was equally as good. I also had a breif chat with momma cherri herself which was worth the money on it's own (what a lovley lady) I understand they have just changed the menu to get back to the roots of soulfood and have taken back the old head chef Adrian who I remember seeing on the first program. We had soul in a bowl which was a hearty selection of bowl selected by the chefs followed by a gut busting dessert platter. I must admit I was put off by some of the bad reviews but i now realise theese people have too much time on thier hands and are probably not very nice people anyway. Which is why I have taken the the time to write this its easy to complain but I imagine there are far more people like me who dont really have time to write a quick comment. Just Momma was so captivating I Think I owe it to her to express my views. I have recomended this place to all my friends and am all ready booked in for July 4th which momma assures me will be the best one yet. Take my advice try somthing different and loaded with flavour try Momma Cherris
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Adam Turner-Smalls
Thursday, March 13, 2008

This place was an absolute disgrace. I'd been really looking forward to eating here since I'd seen it on 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares' a few years ago, but the restaurant failed to deliver in every area.

The service was poor. We had booked in advance and our table wasn't ready when we arrived. We then waited an hour for our food to arrive, by which time we had drunk nearly a bottle of wine between two of us on empty stomachs and were encouraged to order more. There was a lot of huffing and puffing from the waiting staff in general and even a couple of verbal arguments between them on the restaurant floor.

The food itself was utter slop. I had ordered a selection of tapas that made up a £17 platter. The price was extortionate, but i assumed that the food would be plentiful - i was wrong. I was genuinely shocked when it arrived. It was tasteless, over cooked, and measly in size. The 'salad' was comprised of a few leaves from a pre packed supermarket salad bag and the succotash looked and tasted suspiciously like tinned veg. The whole platter took about 5 minutes to eat.

Handing over my money at the end of the meal was painful. Quite how they can charge those prices is beyond me, in fact it's shameful. A 'Kitchen Nightmare' indeed. Don't go there, in fact warn everyone you know against it.
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Emily
Sunday, February 03, 2008

There's not much more I can add to the reviews already posted, suffice to say the experience was deeply disappointing. We were waiting an hour before a sloppy, tasteless, mish-mash of hugely overpriced food arrived.

More slop on plate than soul in a bowl. And at a price (£17!) that you would pay for a main course in one of Ramsay's restaurants.
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Leon
Sunday, February 03, 2008

I'm really disappointed - I went this weekend ( Friday night ) without massive expectations, expecting reasonable food and a fun, friendly atmosphere and, perhaps even a glimpse of Momma C herself. I know the restaurant is having difficulties at the moment but we were ushered straight in by ( I think ) Grandmomma , told it was cash only before we actually asked for a table and she was downright rude really - smiling would really be a good plan for the restaurant, and that goes for the staff too.

The food was good, although the service was really shoddy - unfriendly, unpolished and verging on unpleasant - and then a 10% service charge is added - probably as you wouldn't get one otherwise !

The evening was kinda marred by a fight downstairs for some teenage party which came upstairs for a bit.

Opn a takeaway - your food is great but nobody in the restaurant demonstrated any social or service skills at all. That's surely why people come to you ?
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Alx
Monday, January 21, 2008

i went to momma cherri's before it was "Gordoned". service was slow....incredibly slow...so slow that my normally extremely sweet toothed husband didnt have the heart to wait for a dessert. my daughter and her fella went after the Gordon incident as we like to call it and along with the other reviewers here they were very disappointed. not very good service, food not particularly good. MC needs to remember what gordon said about running her joint, more of a hands off "hostess" approach....maybe he needs to go back and remind her of the situation she was in before he came to brighton first time around.
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MLC
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Have you ever had something stolen? That feeling of disappointment and exploitation as your stomach sinks inside you - that’s what it felt like when I handed over my hard-earned £40 after a shockingly disappointing meal for two.

If you’ve seen Momma Cherri’s appearance on Gordon Ramsey’s TV programme and feel enthused to check it out, please stop right now and don’t bother.

The menu is quite deceptive; a long list of dishes individually priced, but an option to choose 4 for £12.95, which I opted for as I was feeling particularly ravenous. What arrived under my nose sometime later was an absolute disgrace. The portion was so small I sat patiently for a few minutes waiting for my other 3 dishes to arrive. Alas I soon noticed that the jumbled un-presentable mess did contain elements from each of the 4 items I had ordered – about 3 small potato wedges, one small spoonful of coleslaw, a small spoonful of rice, and a couple of soggy pieces of catfish.

“You might come in skinny, but you ain’t goin’ out that way!” Momma Cherri’s website claims. I suppose in a way this statement is true – I came in skinny, and I left a little skinnier and a whole lot angrier.

On reflection there is something about the concept of this restaurant that doesn’t quite make sense. “Soul food” has its origins in the deep American South where slaves would conjure up what they could from the leftover scraps they were given. These recipes, although simple, can be pretty tasty – sweet corn, rice and peas, sweet potatoes etc. So a fair and interesting concept for a restaurant you might think. However, to make it work the food should be served in plentiful portions at reasonable prices (the ingredients are all very cheap after all); but it is neither of these things. It masquerades itself as high-quality delicate cuisine (hello it’s corn on the cob and mash-potato), and consequently has the feel of a pretentious over-priced tapas bar, which is not what one wants or expects from “soul food”.
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Mark Anderson
Saturday, January 05, 2008