Manuka Kitchen - Worthing

Great venue. Fun bar staff and tasty drinks. Loved the decor too, very aesthetic and good for pics for insta! The only downside was the music was rather loud considering the amount of people in the venue when we entered at 7:30pm. However it got busier throughout the night and the music volume seemed normal for a bar.

Bad place not friendly people were fighting all the time and passing out bad service and security avoid this place

Absolutely disgusted at being penalised by this bar for friends letting me down on my 30th birthday resulting in them charging me £30 for three people that did not turn up yet myself and my one friend did. It was not made clear in the original email regarding £10 per person charge that this would not just be if you didn’t turn up at all, but if anybody in the party did not turn up. We were at a table that wouldn’t have sat more than 3 people comfortably anyway. When this was queried on the night, I was just told that they could’ve charged me more because it was supposed to be a bigger table, had I not phoned in advance to tell them it was going to be smaller. It’s effectively ruined the rest of the evening and made both myself and my friend feel like we could no longer sit and enjoy the night. I have emailed the bar and still awaiting a response several days later. I think it’s absolutely disgraceful that they think it’s okay to charge people for not showing up even though we did show up, and with the price of the drinks costed in there, and you don’t get anything extra other than sitting at a table, I would never recommend booking at that place and will likely not to go back there as it has spoilt the experience. My friend also is no longer going to be booking for her daughter to celebrate her 18th birthday here just in case the same thing happens to her. This has left me quite upset emotionally and mentally. It has also left me with financial worries due to the unexpected loss of £30, this is not something that has made my birthday, a great thing to remember let alone been let down by people who I thought were friends. I don’t understand how a business like this in the current climate thinks it is okay to make somebody feel worse on a day of celebration just to get money out of you. It is a shame as I do like the spa and the reason I wanted to come to it was because it has a nice atmosphere and good drinks and the staff always very good and helpful for a laugh but on this occasion it was completely ruined.

I visited last night with my friend for some drinks, we got in ok but it was too busy, took 45 mins to order drinks at our booked table. They then came about 30-40 minutes later. They tasted really good and so that hasn’t changed! Sadly our table was placed at the bar side but oh my goodness it was so busy! People were bashing into our tables, our drinks nearly got spilled and everyone was bumping into me. And I saw a couple of times people were having words with each other and nearly getting aggressive as people cannot get passed! Something needs to be done about how many people you let in, yes you need the money but you also need to give people the best experience! There is no where to dance, I got up to dance once but I felt so conscious about bumping into someone or someone was trying to get passed I couldn’t enjoy myself. Another thing as well, so many people were coming in wearing baseball caps, jogging bottoms, hoodies. There was one man wearing jogging bottoms who wore them so low you could see his boxers and at one point he was stood at our table with his hand down his trousers! After a round we then went to Molotov and I can’t tell you the amount of people I saw in there who were in Manuka! Overall I felt uncomfortable and it put a dampener on my evening with my friend.

Visited Manuka as a party of 9 for my 30th birthday. Booked before hand to secure a table which was no bother. Had such a great evening and we all felt really welcome. They made my birthday extra special and came out with a birthday shot and sparkler singing ‘happy birthday’ to me. The whole team are amazing from the boys welcoming you in and the bar staff to the dj and the lovely bouncer. I did get rather drunk (sorry guys bottomless brunch before hand