Saveway
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About Saveway
On Warwick Rd in Banbury, Saveway is a Chinese takeaway run on a counter order basis with no table service. The menu runs from Chicken Chow Mein and Lemon Chicken to spare ribs, sweet and sour king prawns, chicken curry, and lamb chops, with some dishes served in a gravy sauce not listed on the menu itself. Orders are placed and collected walk-in, with no reservation system in place. The business has built a long-running customer base, with some patrons having ordered from the same counter for decades.
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- ReservationsWalk-in only
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention chicken chow mein, spare ribs, lemon chicken and lamb chops.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention chicken chow mein, spare ribs, lemon chicken and lamb chops.
Customer Review Summary
Chicken chow mein draws the most mentions, praised by longtime customers as reliably good, though one reviewer specifically names it, alongside chicken curry, among dishes involved in a food poisoning report affecting five people in their household. Close behind, regulars, some returning after decades, describe the food as consistently the best in Banbury and staff as friendly and polite, with fair prices cited too. But a real split shows up: several recent orders describe letdowns, including lemon chicken called mushy with unrecognizable meat, an unstated gravy sauce coating dishes, spare ribs described as burnt from reheating, sweet and sour king prawns gone hard from repeated reheating, food called excessively salty by a fifty-year customer, and lamb chops arriving as mostly bone with a tiny portion of meat. One reviewer also reports a hostile experience and called the food unsafe. Several longtime patrons say they'll keep returning; others say they've lost trust after a single bad order.
Customer Review Summary
Chicken chow mein draws the most mentions, praised by longtime customers as reliably good, though one reviewer specifically names it, alongside chicken curry, among dishes involved in a food poisoning report affecting five people in their household. Close behind, regulars, some returning after decades, describe the food as consistently the best in Banbury and staff as friendly and polite, with fair prices cited too. But a real split shows up: several recent orders describe letdowns, including lemon chicken called mushy with unrecognizable meat, an unstated gravy sauce coating dishes, spare ribs described as burnt from reheating, sweet and sour king prawns gone hard from repeated reheating, food called excessively salty by a fifty-year customer, and lamb chops arriving as mostly bone with a tiny portion of meat. One reviewer also reports a hostile experience and called the food unsafe. Several longtime patrons say they'll keep returning; others say they've lost trust after a single bad order.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“I have been having meals from here for over 20 years but this time the food was uneatable spare ribs was heated up and burnt sweet and sour king prawns was very hard because they been heated up more than once sorry but you have lost a customer”
- Google user
“Sorry saveways, I have been eating your food for over 50 years, but todays takeaway put me off, everything was so salty, to the point I couldn't eat it, your food was 10/10 but today for me it's 1/10, please change your chef”
- Google user
“Used this takeaway for 50 years ago!? Always very friendly and the food is the best in Banbury Highly recommend 🥳👋🪻🌼”
- Google user
“AVOID AT ALL COST!!! We have 5 people in our household all food poisoned. If you are going to order anyway please for your own sake don’t get the chicken curry or chicken chowmein, will be taking my business elsewhere,”
- Google user
“Friendly staff and quick service , sadly food let us down with most things covered in a gravy sauce - not stated and not everyone likes gravy! Lemon chicken was mushy and meat wasn’t like meat at all in places . A real shame won’t be using again sadly.”
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