FlyingHigh wrote:Jim05 wrote:Sammy's on the Marina last night. Overpriced and nothing special.
Not a seafood fan but went for a family Birthday. Table of 12 including 3 kids. Started with bread and Dukkah which was nice enough. Entrees were ordered and most tucked into theirs , brother in law ordered a dozen oysters kilpatrick, after waiting for about 10 minutes after everyone else's entree had arrived he questioned the waiter who then admitted he had stuffed up and forgot to order them so he went without.
Mains started coming out about 40 minutes later despite not being overly busy, adult meals came out before kids and then it got worse. My sons Salt and Pepper Calamari was stone cold and several other meals were barely lukewarm. My meal didn't even come out and once again the waiter admitted his error and my meal had been given to another table and they would prepare me another ASAP. Now I only had Beer battered Whiting and that took another 20 minutes to come out and was basically 3 tiny pieces of whiting and a handful of burn chips, the salad was ok though.
Pretty average night TBH, $35 for fish and chips I could buy for $10 at any take away store. All up with a few beers and bottles of wine it came to over $800 and of course then we were told they couldn't split the bill after being informed when we arrived that we could. Food and service pretty average 2/10
Went here recently with a work group of about 20. Our experience wasn't as bad as this, but probably just middling.
Think it biggest problem is it's not sure what it's trying to be, café-style restaurant or an up-market establishment? Most meals and service were good enough without being great (although a couple of the deserts and entrees received high praise, including the scallops I had). Price-tag definitely the latter.
Wait times for the meals didn't seem too bad and they all came out at the same time.
Drink service wasn't really attentive. Being in a group we were put upstairs, but below didn't seem to be overly busy when we walked through. Plenty of times empty glasses and bottles sat there without being queried. At one stage someone had to go downstairs to get their drinks. I'm not a huge drinker so was just having a couple mid-strengths, thought I'd have one more and out came a warm full-strength - not a huge issue in itself, just indicative of the overall set-up.
5/10
I'd be asking for some serious money off the bill if this was the case. We pay top dollar for very average service in most places these days IMHO.
