Vigo Seafoodbar — Restaurant in The Hague

We had a summer dinner as a group of 5. We ordered the Vigo trio, sweet potato truffle fries, and grilled octopus as starters. Smoked eel and salmon in Vigo trio were pretty good, their cocktail sauce was nice too. The grilled octopus was slightly overcooked for my taste, but the zhoug sauce that they served it on saved it. I was so happy to find their zhoug sauce on multiple dishes, it was very delicious but beware it's heavy on the garlic.

From their mains, we tried the soles, weaver and the tuna fillet. Soles were crispy and the butter sauce was well-seasoned. The weaver was also well-made, the beurre noisette sauce and the red beat risotto that it was served on were the highlights on our table. The risotto especially, was one of the best I had at a restaurant. The sole vegetarian in our group went for the quinoa salad, which had their garlicky zhoug sauce and grilled zucchini, both of which were quite heavy on the garlic. The tuna dish also came with the same garlicky zucchinis I think, so beware if you're sensitive to the garlic.

Overall, we enjoyed our meal at Vigo. The service was good too, our food arrived on time. Their wine menu is also rather extensive, and they had a waiter taking care of food and wine suggestions (not sure if he was a somellier, I forgot to ask). The atmosphere inside the restaurant is really cozy and they have beautiful decoration, but if the weather is good definitely dine outside in their garden as I've noticed they had melissas growing in their garden it...

I have to say that I'm quite disappointed. We came in thinking we would be welcome with a dog. They told us we can only sit outside, which okay, I can respect that. We were exited for food, because it looked amazing on pictures, and they have a good reviews. That was a next disappointment. The food looked beautiful, but it absolutely lacked any taste. I don't know if the cook is allergic to salt and pepper? Otherwise the fish was cooked nicely. Also it was written in menu that you get a salát and fries to your food. Which as I understood should be for ever, meal. There I was probably wrong, since we got only one portion of both. Okay fine, we ate what we got and ordered a dessert. That is probably the only reason I give 2 stars to be honest. The waited didn't look very exited to have any customers there at the beginning, it got better with time. Overall I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting haag only for a few days. I think there are better (and cheaper) option to be found around the city. And also, which server gives a dessert spoon on the table outside without any napkin, plate on anything else? Just put it on the...

Tuna tacos were tasty but not very big. Sushi was also tasty, even though didn’t look representable and quite small for the 22 euros but I liked it.

My friend liked the fish but it was super simple. Look at the plate in the picture, it cost 30 euros 😅 Yes, she did ask to change rice for fries but again it doesn’t look very appealing. We also waited for like an hour for the main course.

The waiters didn’t know much about the menu and had to go to the kitchen and bar to ask everything.

We found out later that they charged us twice for the wine but I was able to send them an email and they agreed to return the money for the wine and even for cod fish garnishes which was very nice.

Verdict: Can be tasty but with all other things I mentioned I didn’t feel like it was...