WIBU to leave a 3 star review on this meal?

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Dined at a fine dining restaurant and each had a meal costing £60 per person for a 3 course meal (including soft drinks). The food was nice but the portions were very small. They spread the food out over the plate to make it look more. At the end of the meal, I still felt hungry.
As the restaurant emailed asking us to leave a review on TripAdvisor, I did. I gave a 3 star review stating that the food was nice enough, but I was still hungry at the end of the meal.
The restaurant has reacted by calling me a keyboard warrior and suggesting that in future I eat at a burger bar. I am shocked by her reaction. Reading through the restaurant's responses to other reviews, she has responded very viciously to anyone giving any kind of negative feedback.
Has anyone else had this kind of response to a review?

The restaurant has reacted by calling me a keyboard warrior and suggesting that in future I eat at a burger bar.

What the heck😂 I never understand when people get upset about honest reviews! Calling someone a keyboard warrior is just unnecessary

Oh dear the snobbery on here.

OP you are right and actually your review would put me off because my husband would moan like hell if he left hungry.
And I never eat in Burger Bars either.

@poetryandwine yes that's true. I guess it's easy to see how someone that really enjoys eating in places that pile poor quality food high would be unsatisfied with smaller portions.

I once gave an honest opinion about my experience at a hair salon, which was horrendous, and the cut and colour was awful. She WhatsApped me telling me to remove it, then somehow she removed it (Facebook). So all her reviews are 5 star, you can’t believe anything you see these days, and as for them challenging you, it’s incredulous.

I wouldn't give it another thought OP. Some people are just rude, unpleasant knobheads.

I agree

Leave as is - her response does a lot more damage than your statement that you felt hungry after.

For £60 the whole menu/meal should be planned to leave you satisfied, not hungry and wanting.

It might be different noiw but several years ago we left a bad review on one of those 'trusted trader' sites. A guy came to 'fix' our dishwasher- basically took it apart and left everything on the kitchen floor then walked out without a word to us and never came back. We tried calling him etc and nothing. We had to get someone else to come and put the damned thing back together again.

So we left a factual review on the trusted trader site (with photos!) only to have them contact us to say we potentially would damage his livelihood and they were removing it.

I've never used it since.

Only on MN would people suggest £60 for a meal is 'cheap'. It is incredibly expensive

I wouldn’t describe it as cheap but it’s far from being “incredibly expensive”, I’d expect to pay that kind of price in a nice gastropub and really enjoy it. The most expensive meal I’ve had recently came to £450 for the two of us and only one of us had wine! It was outstanding though.

The thing is though, the meal was "alright".
It wasn't burnt or cold or anything that the OP specifically wanted to complain about - it was just 'meh' because, although the food was nice enough, the OP clearly feels she wouldn't go back / recommend it to people as it wasn't enough food, and therefore wasn't great.
Then the restaurant asked her to write a review. So she did.

That isn’t what I said,@DemBonesDemBones . I will put my thoughts in different words.

A subset of people here are diverting the question, asking whether OP knows that a proper ‘fine dining’ restaurant does not simply pile on the food. I put the phrase in quotation marks because in my home country, with a stronger reputation than the UK in the Guide Michelin and elsewhere, happily we do not use this phrase.

The OP has previous experience of restaurants in the GM and states that this one also has an entry. Therefore (a) it meets some kind of threshold and (b) she knows at least something of what she is talking about.
And I know starred restaurants can occasionally screw up, details above.

Thank you all for your supportive replies. I still feel shocked at the owner's response to my review.
It wasn't actually a tasting or a set menu. It was described as a le carte where you pick a starter, main and dessert. Starters, mains and desserts were priced individually, depending on what you had. They did have side dishes on offer, so we probably should have ordered a load of side dishes to go with our mains!
We had set menus at the two other Michelin Guide restaurants we went to. Although portions were not massive in these places either, they both gave additional dishes in addition to the starter, main and dessert, so we all felt full up at the end of the meal.

Come on OP tell us so we can look at the reviews.

Fwiw, the price is irrelevant - if the owner wants to leave unpleasant responses to reviews, publically, thats up to them. I think (And going by this thread so do many others) that it's a foolish thing to do, as the response from the owner is more important than the review itself.

I don't see theres any need to protect them by not sharing the name of the restaurant!

I think often in that type of place the main is pretty much just a small serving of protein and not much else and you’re expected to order a couple of side dishes for the carbs/ veg. It’s not great value and I think absolutely fine to say you left hungry!

Wow! I'd be tempted to do a screenshot ready for incase it disappears. A reply like that would make me more inclined to leave further responses so
Good food but tiny portions...and rude management!

I don't know about anyone else but when I read restaurant reviews, I take them all with a pinch of salt.

It's the restaurant responses I pay attention to, and I wouldn't be going to this one.