Seafood on Cullen — Restaurant in Larrakeyah

I went to seafood on cullen on a beautiful Sunday afternoon after hearing about its gorgeous ocean views and great variety of seafood from a friend. While I wasn't expecting much from an all you can eat seafood buffet, I definitely got more than what I'd bargained for.

While I was greeted by the standard ambient music normally playing in any Chinese restaurant, the scenes I was forced to witness were far from tranquil. At first glance everything seemed peaceful, I even brushed off the image of a heavily breathing bald man in a bib as just a weirdo.He was not a weirdo, he was prepared. After my first foray to the line I realised that this is no place for the weak, you have to earn your keep. The tension in the air is thick and similar to a herd of wilderbeast attempting to cross the Serengeti River. There was a look of panic in peoples eyes and as I stood there thinking "ok this feels kinda weird" a sudden squeak of a door hinge behind me startled the herd into action and it was on. Before I knew it they were upon me, licking their lips and gnashing their jaws. I tried to scream out but nothing left my lips. Fear had a hold of me. As I turned to run I saw a bone chilling image cheerily walking towards me. "Oysters Kirkpatrick" read the sign and it was only then id realised just where I was standing. What a fool I was. I managed to escape that feeding frenzy and scurry back to my table with merely a few prawns. Shook as I was, I stomached the prawns not looking up from my plate once. I built up the courage to venture back to the feeding pit to get myself some scraps when yet again I was greeted with horror. In front of me, an elderly asian woman was sucking the contents of a prawn head out and as her eyes rolled back like a great white shark I thought to myself "is this actually worth it?" A question for deaf ears im afraid. She shot me a triumphant glance after securing the last of that prawns entity and I suddenly wasnt as hungry as I thought I was.

Now I am ashamed to admit I've paid a small fortune to dine here thinking I would be king of the buffet, here i am leaving with my tail between my legs like the scared beta that I am. I am no king here, shamelessness is king here.

The watermelon on a stick was...

Me, my partner and all our friends love the food at seafood on cullen but tonight my partner got started on and fat shamed by another customer and was told by staff to stop eating when all he had was 4 pieces of oyster kilpatricks and 3 pieces of steak and that's all he had. Even the manage who is named jade did nothing about it and told him to confront him himself about it but the thing is if he does he gets into trouble so I think they just wanted an excuse to kick him out witch is poor management and she shouldn't be a manger she also came up to him and confronted him about what the same rude customer did he went and complained that my partner was harassing him but he never even spoken to the guy all he did was smile and take the fat insults that guy was saying then walked away and was trying to avoid him I mean come on guys do better... that rude customer was also pushing infront of others and others kids to take all the oysters so my partner when the guy wasn't there went to grab some for the people sns their kids who was next to him his brother and brother partner beca6there kids was upset that that same rude customer wasn't allowing them to get any... come on seafood on cullen your managers and staff need to do better by everyone and not buy the snobbish people... I'm very disappointed in you staff and management and so in my partner his family and everyone that was also around that witnessed it giving the rude customer daggers no one was happy with any of you guys that night do better all of you... they even complained about the thay guy and the oysters but all the staff members had to say that the oysters where fair game so they weren't doing anything and that's not fair with people pushing others out of the way and hurling insults at people when they do especially when the person that they did it to didn't complain or say...

Called the restaurant in the early hours of the evening to inquire if we needed to make a booking as there would be four of us and a baby.

The woman on the phone told us that, no you wouldn’t need a booking unless you’re a party of 5 or more adults.

We arrived at the restaurant and was greeted by the same woman who took my call, when asked if we had made a booking, I responded that we didn’t but I did call ahead to check if it was fine for four and a baby.

I could already tell she was annoyed we didn’t book, but what was the point in calling in the first place if we told we didn’t need to?

I let it slide and we were seated in a back corner and had trouble fitting the baby seat in without blocking an exit point for emergencies.

The majority of the food was good, a few dishes let the place down though. The Noodles were way over salted/seasoned; the chicken curry was made “Maryland” chicken bits so it was almost inedible unless you love cartilage.

However, it was the steak that killed it for me, it was cooked well, but the meat itself was tough and full of gristle making it poor quality.

Deserts were ‘meh’. The cheesecake looked like it had been out for hours and stated to form a hard layer around its outside.

The chocolate fountain was a nice touch, but unless you covered your dessert in it, the desert options were a pretty generic Sarah-lee style frozen cake in a box.

$5 for a glass of Soda is beyond silly when it is a simple post-mix. $11 for a slim jug was a better deal than buying it by the glass; I’m hoping the glass that came with the jug wasn’t the $5 glass either.

After the meal, we went to pay and I was again chastised for not making a booking, hence 3 stars.

I honestly did try to do the right thing and I still got chewed out about it.

Not sure if we will be back, if i wanted to be belittled by someone,...